26 Jul 2023 Unity Health offers CAMP for students

SEARCY — Unity Health recently held Careers and Medical Professions (CAMP) for local high school students. The program is hosted by the healthcare system’s education department. 

Each summer, the Unity Health Careers and Medical Professions (CAMP) program provides the opportunity for 16 high school juniors and seniors interested in a career in healthcare to spend a week exploring many of the possibilities open to them. CAMP participants are given the opportunity to experience healthcare through hands-on learning activities, tours through different medical departments in the hospital, guest speakers from the healthcare community, and shadowing experiences. CAMP ends with a community disaster drill where the students experience the coordinated efforts of the healthcare community.

Unity Health is an Arkansas healthcare system consisting of 4 hospitals, 13 family practice clinics, and specialists and specialty clinics consisting of 15 areas of practice including: Unity Health – Cardiology Clinic, Unity Health – Orthopaedic and Spine Center, the Pyeatt Family Cancer Center, inpatient and outpatient physical rehabilitation, as well as inpatient and outpatient behavioral health. 

As the leading healthcare provider and largest employer in an eight-county area, Unity Health and its more than 2,300 associates strive to improve the quality of health and well-being for the communities they serve through compassionate care. Unity Health has more than 150 physicians that specialize in various areas of healthcare.