Community Partner: Chase Brexton Health Care
Intern: Joyce Lin
Site Supervisors: Ken Ruby III and Emily Stiles
What is Chase Brexton?
Our mission is to provide compassionate, quality health care that honors diversity, inspires wellness, and
improves our communities.
Looking back at my experience with CIIP, I feel that I have had a very full summer at
Chase Brexton. Although I often felt underused and didn't have a longer term
project to work on like I had hoped, I do think I've learned a lot from my experience.
I've learned to be independent and manage tasks while helping out around the
office as much as I can. I was able to dabble in a variety of different tasks such as
indexing, scheduling, organizing and managing the front desk. It was my first time
being exposed to a health care center like Chase Brexton and I have always
wondered what working in such an organization would be like. This summer
answered all of my questions and I was very intrigued by the processes and people
that go into making such a big "clinic" run. I spent all of my time in the Case
Management department and wasn't able to do any actual case management, but I
did learn a lot about how case managers work, how they help their clients and more
about how the health system works and affects Baltimoreans.
One downside that I felt deeply throughout the internship was that it was relatively
passive. I learned primarily by observation and through that experience in itself was
very valuable, but I would have liked to be a little more hands on with the clinical
aspect of Chase Brexton. Instead I spent much of my active work doing
organizational tasks in and around the office.
After just completing my CTR training to conduct rapid HIV testing, I wish I had more
time at Chase Brexton to practice these newly acquired skills. But nevertheless, this
summer I got to witness and observe a lot of tests and am confident in my abilities
to do the same in the future. I am very excited to share my newfound knowledge of
HIV, testing, PrEP and PEP with family and friends and possibly implement this
information in my future endeavors either in school, work or research.
Overall, a summer full with self reflection, HIV education, and work opportunity ‐ a
very productive experience. Very thankful for CIIP for connecting me and giving me
the chance to explore career options in my field. ‐ Joyce
Tasks:
• Power Community Outreach Action Plan (identifying
potential outreach locations, community centers, parks,
etc... surrounding each CBHC location)
• PrEP Cascade (visual representation of PrEP usage and
retention with CBHC company data, identified adherence
to medication by gender, age, race, and sexual
orientation)
• Online Store ( researched potential items that could be in
a POWER online store for the POWER Project at Chase
Brexton)
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