{"id":323024,"date":"2026-06-29T05:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323024\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T05:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:20:22","slug":"st-josephs-hospital-south-hosts-career-camp-for-medical-field-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323024\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital-South Hosts Career Camp For Medical Field Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Riverview\u2019s St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital-South\u202fhosted a two-day career camp this summer for students entering the ninth or 10th grade in the 2026-2027 school year. The camp gave students opportunities to learn hands-on about different hospital careers. St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital-South campers toured hospital departments, received presentations from hospital staff and participated in interactive classes. <\/p>\n

Department tours and presentation highlights included surgery, nursing simulation, pet therapy, rehabilitation, radiology, maternity, respiratory therapy, laboratory\/phlebotomy, pharmacy, physician careers, pediatrics\/child life and nutrition\/dietitian. <\/p>\n

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The St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital-South camp is part of a series of career camps across the BayCare Health System this summer in an effort to inspire the next generation of health care workers. <\/p>\n

Lucy Thurmond, who will be a ninth grader this school year at Sumner High School, said she wanted to attend the career camp because she is interested in a career in the maternity field. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI think this (the camp) was a great experience and opportunity for people who have not been around a hospital before to see what it could be like,\u201d Lucy said. <\/p>\n

Lucy added that she was excited to learn that there are multiple maternity areas that she could do besides labor and delivery. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can do Mom & Baby, the NICU \u2014 there are lots of other things,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

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This was the first year that the camps came to St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital-South. <\/p>\n

Melissa Menke, St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital\u2019s clinical professional practice manager and one of the camp organizers and coordinators, said the expansion to St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital-South was because of substantial community demand. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been trying to expand our outreach and bring more young people into our facilities and expose them to health care careers,\u201d Menke said. \u201cWe wanted to give more students in the geographical regions and communities across our system the opportunity to participate.\u201d <\/p>\n

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For those interested in the St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital-South Career Camp in the summer of 2027, look for a registration announcement on the St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital-South Facebook page (www.facebook.com\/stjosephssouth\/<\/a>) starting in March 2027. Those interested can also email\u202fstjosephscareercamp@baycare.org<\/a>\u202ffor further information.\u202f <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riverview\u2019s St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital-South\u202fhosted a two-day career camp this summer for students entering the ninth or 10th grade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-323024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}