HSHS St. Vincent Hospital welcomes students from across northeast Wisconsin for Healthcare Bootcamp

Green Bay, WI. – HSHS St. Vincent Hospital recently welcomed high school students from across northeast Wisconsin for its first Healthcare Bootcamp event of the year. The bootcamp for juniors and seniors interested in a career in health care is designed to give students a realistic look into various health care roles while also allowing an opportunity to make connections in the field.

“Through these job shadowing experiences, students are able to learn the role of the career, type of education that is required, skills that are performed, and network with our health care professionals,” says Ericka Mulroy, RN, BSN, Nursing Professional Development Specialist at HSHS St. Vincent Hospital and organizer of the Healthcare Bootcamp. “These students were able to experience hands-on skill sessions, and network with local universities and colleges during their time at St. Vincent.”

Over twenty students took part in HSHS St. Vincent Hospital’s Healthcare Bootcamp on Wednesday, July 10. It included experiences in fourteen different departments, which engaged students in a variety of ways and solidified their interest in health care. Students also shared that they enjoyed the positive and caring environment that HSHS St. Vincent Hospital provided them as guests. Interested students were able to talk directly to HSHS employment specialists about opportunities available to them in the field, opening a door in the health care industry before they graduate high school.

Funding for the bootcamp was provided by a generous donation made to the HSHS St. Vincent/St. Mary’s Foundation by John and Sue Bellin. “The Foundation is proud to support the next generation of potential healthcare workers,” says Johannah Wenig, director of the St. Vincent/St. Mary’s Foundation.

“This community supports our hospitals in so many tangible ways, including the work we do to equip our colleagues to be the best in their field. This community outreach is key to inspiring young people to choose career paths in caring for our community.”

Students from the communities of Appleton, Brussels, De Pere, Green Bay, Luxemburg, Neenah, Oconto Falls and Seymour participated in the bootcamp.

For those who did not take part in the bootcamp but are still interested in a job shadow opportunity with HSHS, future opportunities can be found at: https://www.hshs.org/careers/job-shadowing
 
About HSHS St. Vincent Hospital
HSHS St. Vincent Hospital is part of Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a Catholic health care ministry founded in 1875. Dedicated to our Mission to reveal and embody Christ’s healing love for all people through high-quality Franciscan health care, HSHS clinicians provide exceptional care centered on the whole person. Based in Springfield, Illinois, HSHS employs more than 11,000 colleagues who provide care in 13 acute-care, children’s and critical-access hospitals and home health and hospice programs in Central and Southern Illinois and Eastern Wisconsin. HSHS is aligned with more than 1,000 primary and specialty physicians and advanced practitioners through its owned affiliates HSHS Medical Group and Prairie Cardiovascular and its partnership with Prevea Health. For more information about HSHS, visit hshs.org.