{"id":3915,"date":"2016-05-13T20:14:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T00:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2016-05-13T20:17:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T00:17:12","slug":"new-grant-to-support-hepatitis-c-testing-in-the-emergency-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/2016\/05\/13\/new-grant-to-support-hepatitis-c-testing-in-the-emergency-department\/","title":{"rendered":"New Grant to Support Hepatitis C Testing in the Emergency Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/emergencymedicine\/files\/2014\/07\/3affdde9-8c9b-4037-9b5f-f177419cfd88.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-709 alignright\" alt=\"elissa perkins\" src=\"\/emergencymedicine\/files\/2014\/07\/3affdde9-8c9b-4037-9b5f-f177419cfd88-150x150.jpeg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>We are proud to announce that Dr. Elissa Schechter-Perkins, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, will be the lead emergency physician implementing a new, cutting-edge\u00a0program that will provide Hepatitis C testing in the Emergency Department!<\/p>\n<p>Funded largely by a grant from Gilead Sciences, this pilot program is a coordinated effort by the Emergency Department, section of Infectious Disease,\u00a0and section of Laboratory Medicine at Boston Medical Center. The program provides for patient navigators who\u00a0will help\u00a0emergency physicians inform patients of their test\u00a0results and ensure that patients are linked to timely outpatient hepatitis care. Implementation of the program is planned for this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce that Dr. Elissa Schechter-Perkins, Assistant Professor of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[4,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3917,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}