{"id":747,"date":"2017-08-29T19:24:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainhope.wpengine.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2019-09-24T13:58:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T13:58:17","slug":"former-student-joins-clinic-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/former-student-joins-clinic-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Student Joins Clinic Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It was a seamless transition for Suleira Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, she completed her medical assistant studies at Tennessee College of Applied Technology. The very next day, she was at work at Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic.<\/p>\n

Suleira, who is called “Sue” most of the time, was already familiar with the Clinic. It\u2019s where she had done the clinical hours necessary to become a Registered Medical Assistant.<\/p>\n

Toward the end of her training, her instructor told her about two job openings. She chose Mountain Hope because, \u201cI thought I could be more helpful here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s bilingual, which is a big help to the Clinic\u2019s many Hispanic patients. She was born in California but grew up in Mexico; her first language was Spanish. When she was 10 her parents decided to come back to the United States and moved to Tennessee. Sue attended Pigeon Forge Middle and High schools, and knows this area well.<\/p>\n

She was studying to become an LPN but says, \u201cI\u2019m a hands-on person,\u201d and switched to the Medical Assistant program when she saw the practical help RMAs can give their patients. As an RMA at Mountain Hope, she takes patients\u2019 vital signs, does vaccinations, deals with medications, gives some types of treatments and assists the medical staff.<\/p>\n

Sue lives in Sevierville with her husband of three years, Dewa Raka. She likes to spend time with her family, especially her 3-year-old nephew. \u201cHe\u2019s my baby,\u201d she said. She\u2019s recently celebrated her pinning ceremony and graduation. She also likes to draw and paint.<\/p>\n

She says she likes everything about the Clinic. \u201cI especially like the way they help uninsured people,\u201d she says. Patients receive not only physical healing, but also spiritual help, she said. The clinic provides good care to those who can\u2019t afford regular doctors. \u201cThey help the community,\u201d she said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a seamless transition for Suleira Rodriguez. Earlier this month, she completed her medical assistant studies at Tennessee College of Applied Technology. The very next day, she was at work at Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic. Suleira, who is called “Sue” most of the time, was already familiar with the Clinic. It\u2019s where she […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meet-our-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}