{"id":161,"date":"2017-04-24T16:08:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/?p=161"},"modified":"2017-05-01T14:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:02:05","slug":"from-heart-failure-to-home-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/2017\/04\/24\/from-heart-failure-to-home-mph\/","title":{"rendered":"From Heart Failure to Home – MPH"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amy Bacon, MPH Student<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2009 Amy\u00a0suffered an unexpected sudden cardiac arrest. Eight years later she’s excelling in UM-Flint’s Master of Public Health. Read Amy’s story below…<\/p>\n

On March 19, 2009, I suffered an unexpected Sudden Cardia Arrest that changed my life forever. This led me to need a heart transplant; I was transplanted with a new heart on 6\/26\/2012. This experience has totally changed my views on life and I knew at that point God had saved me for a reason. Even if I really wasn\u2019t sure what that reason was.<\/p>\n

After I went back to school to get my Associate in Applied Science as a Medical Insurance Specialist, I realized that my calling was to educate the public on the importance of preventative health. I did not want anyone else to go through what I had experienced with my heart failure. So I made the decision to continue on and get my Bachelor’s degree in Health Services Administration with the end goal of acquiring my Master\u2019s Degree in Public Health.<\/p>\n

After I was accepted to the University of Michigan-Flint’s MPH program, I knew that I was \u201chome\u201d and I had made the right decision. Since being a student at UM-Flint, I have met many students and faculty members that have helped to catapult me in the direction that I want to go. I am a member of ETA SIGMA GAMMA, which is a national honors society for health educators. I have been a part of a blood drive, and two solid organ and tissue donor drives, one of which I initiated with ETA SIGMA GAMMA. It was a huge success. I am currently working with both Dr. Suzuki and Dr. Hayman on both Qualitative and Quantitative surveys with residents of low socioeconomic status here in Genesee County.<\/p>\n

I am determining children\u2019s eating habits (CHESS) through Qualitative Surveys with Dr. Hayman, as well as Prenatal Access at Hamilton Community Health Care Network through Quantitative surveys with Dr. Suzuki. I believe that UM-Flint has given me the necessary skills and knowledge to meet the needs of the community in health education. I am looking very forward to what the future holds for me as I have decided to make Genesee County my permanent residence.<\/p>\n

Read more on the Master of Public Health by visiting the homepage:\u00a0https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/public-health-mph<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2009 Amy\u00a0suffered an unexpected sudden cardiac arrest. Eight years later she’s excelling in UM-Flint’s Master of Public Health. Read Amy’s story below… On March 19, 2009, I suffered an unexpected Sudden Cardia Arrest that changed my life forever. This led me to need a heart transplant; I was transplanted with a new heart on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}