{"id":23564,"date":"2023-01-26T13:51:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=23564"},"modified":"2023-01-26T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:52:00","slug":"camosun-college-to-get-new-island-health-ultrasound-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/01\/26\/camosun-college-to-get-new-island-health-ultrasound-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun College to get new Island Health ultrasound clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camosun College is getting a new ultrasound clinic on campus. The provincial government announced the outpatient clinic at the Alex &amp; Jo Campbell Centre for Health and Wellness on Thursday, January 26. It will be called Campus Ultrasound and is the first clinic of its kind in Canada to support on-site learning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18877\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/48531029791_147f84bdb2_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/48531029791_147f84bdb2_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/48531029791_147f84bdb2_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/48531029791_147f84bdb2_o.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camosun College is getting an ultrasound clinic (photo by Camosun College A\/V Services).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The clinic is a partnership with Island Health and will give Diagnostic Medical Sonography students experiential education.<\/p>\n<p>The clinic comes from $1.2M of funding from the provincial Ministry of Health. It will have two general ultrasound rooms and two echocardiogram rooms; four students can be trained at once. In a press release, Island Health says it expects to expand diagnostic ultrasound services by approximately 5,000 general ultrasound exams and 3,000 echocardiogram exams annually at Campus Ultrasound.<\/p>\n<p>The clinic will begin receiving patients on Monday, February 6.<\/p>\n<p>More info to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camosun College is getting a new ultrasound clinic on campus. The provincial government announced the outpatient clinic at the Alex &amp; Jo Campbell Centre for Health and Wellness on Thursday, January 26. It will be called Campus Ultrasound and is the first clinic of its kind in Canada to support on-site learning. The clinic is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23566,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23564\/revisions\/23566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}