PA Hospital System Recruits College Students Home on Break in Fight Against COVID
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BETHLEHEM, Pa., Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ St. Luke s University Health Network (SLUHN) has tapped an unexpected, but welcome, labor pool of college students to help remotely monitor hospitalized COVID patients in eight of the Bethlehem-based network s dozen hospitals using revolutionary medical technology.
College students home on winter break help to fight COVID at Pennsylvania-based St. Luke s University Health Network.
Starting Dec. 19, a cadre of virtual monitoring technicians is now stationed 24/7 before digital screens in St. Luke s Virtual Response Center (VRC) in an office building in Allentown a few miles from the nearest hospital. For eight- to 12-hour shifts these twenty-somethings, many who started the job when they were home on Christmas break, watch the vital signs of seriously ill patients sent by the Masimo Patient Safet