{"id":8358,"date":"2020-06-03T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/?p=8358"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:42:17","slug":"face-of-the-fight-robert-munoz-20-kinesiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/2020\/06\/03\/face-of-the-fight-robert-munoz-20-kinesiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Face of the Fight: Robert Munoz \u201920, Kinesiology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

College of Health Sciences staff, faculty members and students across all departments are dedicating themselves to helping during the COVID-19 health crisis we are all facing. Here, we highlight their work in their own words. Know someone helping out who should be recognized? Email their story to patrickluce@uri.edu.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Munoz, who graduated from the University of Rhode Island\u2019s College of Health Sciences<\/a> this year, is already working in COVID-19 fight, and in fact has been on the front lines of health care for the better part of his college career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Munoz has been working with the Rhode to Health mobile health unit at its COVID-19 testing site<\/a> in Central Falls, R.I. A partnership between URI, the Rhode Island Department of Health and CVS Pharmacy, the Emergency Disaster Response Testing Services Agreement allows the deployment of the mobile unit to Central Falls to provide COVID-19 testing to residents of that community and neighboring Pawtucket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Munoz, who graduated in May with a bachelor\u2019s degree in kinesiology<\/a> and biology, has also been working as a first responder for Alert EMS since his sophomore year. He is also a volunteer with the Charlestown, R.I. Fire District, spending his weekends serving on the town\u2019s ambulance team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the Central Falls testing site, Munoz has been overseeing the EMS personnel who greet cars as they enter the drive-through testing site. He and his team gather the necessary information from the cars\u2019 occupants, assess their condition if they are ill, and direct them to the testing sites. In addition to ensuring proper safety procedures are followed and samples are collected properly, Munoz has also been serving as a Spanish translator, helping ensure the critical information is correctly communicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything has to be done properly and safely, and we have to make sure people receive the information they need,\u201d Munoz said. \u201cI\u2019m really happy to be here doing this work every day; it\u2019s great to be working with URI on this. Everyone is very thankful that we\u2019re here for them. It\u2019s been really rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Munoz plans to continue working with Alert EMS and plans to make a career in health services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in being an EMT. I kind of thrive on pressure, so it works for me,\u201d Munoz said, adding he plans to continue his education. \u201cI love learning, and in the medical field you have to constantly learn; you have to actively pursue it. I love helping people, so I definitely plan to continue in the medical field.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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College of Health Sciences staff, faculty members and students across all departments are dedicating themselves to helping during the COVID-19 health crisis we are all facing. Here, we highlight their work in their own words. Know someone helping out who should be recognized? Email their story to patrickluce@uri.edu. Robert Munoz, who graduated from the University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":8349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8373,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions\/8373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}