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Hospital Internships for Interns in wheelchairs

Erin Fogarty Posts: 18 1/24/2020	Erin Fogarty Posts: 18 Hi Everyone, I am the instructor for a Project SEARCH program at on of the Beaumont Hospital sites in Michigan. We are just finishing up our very first year in a hospital setting and have had a good amount of internships in this first year and are looking to add more sites for next year. We have the potential to have a couple of wheelchair bound students as interns next year and I was wondering for those of you in hospital settings, what types of internships do you have for your interns in wheelchairs?
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Susie Rutkowski Posts: 25 2/10/2020	Susie Rutkowski Posts: 25 Hi Erin Always good to see your name and picture. We have an intern right now who uses a wheelchair. She has been working with someone from our Business Office. Our staff member created a report of all the Project SEARCH programs who were missing information on the member portal. He helped her to create a template email to all the sites about their information, asking them to update their program site and telling them to contact their program specialist if they need help. One day she got 40 responses in her inbox. People are responding to her and updating the needed information. Currently she is emailing each site telling them their employment outcomes are due at the end of this month. She does really well working from a spreadsheet and customizing emails to our programs! Our Dow site in Michigan had someone updating the SDS (Safety Data Sheets) by finding important information on the web.
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Erin Fogarty Posts: 18 3/5/2020	Erin Fogarty Posts: 18 Hi Susie, I actually think I received an email from her! Talking with our business liaison its looking like clerical spots in different departments and possibly retail (Gift Shop) may be our best bets.
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Pattie Weaver Posts: 3 10/12/2021	Pattie Weaver Posts: 3 We have our first intern in a wheelchair this year as well. She is currently in the radiology registration department where she takes the patient name, testing type, appointment time, and then when a registration window is open, she calls the patients to the registrar. I plan to have her in either the gift shop or at a satellite location scanning files into the hospital system. I am struggling as well with this individual who is high ability, just limited by her reach and space constraint due to unmotorized wheelchair. I am also having a hard time with 2 deaf and hard of hearing individuals this year, again my first experience this year. edited by pweaver@yourgoodwill.org on 10/15/2021
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Posts: 10/13/2021	Posts: Hi Erin we have a student on a wheelchair and he currently works in the Police Tech Department and cleans the tables, couches and chairs. He also uses the top part of the swiffer to help him wipe the center of the tables and to reach down the sides of couches. Front Desk is another area he is considering working and child life.
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Jourdan Spencer Posts: 30 10/14/2021	Jourdan Spencer Posts: 30 A few years ago we had a student in a wheelchair who interned with Patient Services. She greeted patients/visitors and helped them find their way around the hospital. She also was responsible for delivering and picking up mail to various departments. We put an organizer on top of the tray on her motorized wheelchair. It worked well.
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