Interview with Chief Nursing Officer for Appalachian Regional Healthcare Ellen Wright (FULL)

Identifier

000024123

Alt Identifier

cip.2020.03.05

Asset Type

Date

September 29, 2020, September 29, 2020

Description (Ellen Wright is the Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Nursing for Appalachian Regional Healthcare, and has worked at Appalachian Regional Healthcare for 32 years. In the interview, Ellen discusses the policy and procedure changes that have been implemented at ARH hospitals since the beginning of the pandemic, relating to things such as personal protective equipment, restrictions on visitation, and COVID testing.  She also talks about how hospitals are being educated on COVID; her concerns with heading into flu season; how people in the community have made and donated masks; the changes that have taken place at the church she attends; and how she and her husband started a garden this year.
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Ellen Wright is the Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Nursing for Appalachian Regional Healthcare, and has worked at Appalachian Regional Healthcare for 32 years. In the interview, Ellen discusses the policy and procedure changes that have been implemented at ARH hospitals since the beginning of the pandemic, relating to things such as personal protective equipment, restrictions on visitation, and COVID testing.  She also talks about how hospitals are being educated on COVID; her concerns with heading into flu season; how people in the community have made and donated masks; the changes that have taken place at the church she attends; and how she and her husband started a garden this year.
 

Contributors

Wright, Ellen (interviewee)

Musgrave, Nicole (interviewer)

Media Type

Sound

Subjects

Covid-19, Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Rural health care, Covid-19 testing, Church, Gardening, Creating in Place project

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Related Collection

Creating in Place Project Collection

Related Place

Neon, KY