{"id":11669,"date":"2024-02-21T17:42:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=11669"},"modified":"2024-02-21T17:42:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T17:42:38","slug":"pt-students-make-a-difference-in-local-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2024\/02\/21\/pt-students-make-a-difference-in-local-community\/","title":{"rendered":"PT students make a difference in local community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p>By Anna Lougee \u201924, staff writer&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifth-year physical therapy (PT) students at LVC are putting their degrees to work and assisting the local community.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All graduate-level PT students at LVC are required to take a class called CURE Clinic. In this class, they accept patients from the local community who do not have insurance to receive necessary care.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, they have been focusing on going off-campus to extend their treatment offerings. The board members of CURE Clinic have been visiting all local treatment centers to present what services they offer. This helps grow the connection with the local community and allows these clinics to send more patients to LVC to receive treatment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is exciting that we have the opportunity to grow these connections within the local community,\u201d Hayley Cowles, a fifth-year physical therapy student and board member for CURE Clinic, said. \u201cIt not only helps us enhance our education, but we are able to make a stronger connection with these clinics.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CURE Clinic is available to treat patients every Monday and Thursday, with appointments starting at 5:30 p.m. in the Arnold Health Professions Pavilion.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Anna Lougee \u201924, staff writer&nbsp; Fifth-year physical therapy (PT) students at LVC are putting their degrees to work and assisting the local community.&nbsp;&nbsp; All graduate-level PT students at LVC are required to take a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2024\/02\/21\/pt-students-make-a-difference-in-local-community\/\" title=\"PT students make a difference in local community\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}