Author Archives: Andrew J. Lewandowski

Something I hadn’t expected over the course of this internship was how much I would learn from the blogs of the other Fellows. While my main focus as a semi-professional is on health care, I know that there are a … Continue reading →

My work for the ALS Association has finally started to come together in the last two weeks. When I first started, they let me know that if I was able to come up with a few options regarding the loan … Continue reading →

American health care remains a very complex and heavily divided subject. I’ve been wanting to make this post for a while and have been trying to gather my thoughts enough to write it concisely and accessibly, so please bear with … Continue reading →

A lot of my work at the ALS Association finally started coming together at the end of last week. I started to receive calls back from durable medical equipment suppliers, who we plan to contract with to store the loan … Continue reading →

The ALS Association has had an ongoing parade of meetings for the past week or so since we had a couple of board members visit us on Tuesday. We’ve been discussing the direction of care services (the branch I work … Continue reading →

Answering machines have always terrified me. They’re composed of the pressure to fill an empty space that we feel during an awkward pause in conversation or when staring at a blank Word document with an assignment due, but instead with limited … Continue reading →

My fellowship is a bit different than some of the others I’ve been reading about this summer. A lot of my work is administrative, and the people I work with day to day are the other people who work in … Continue reading →

My first year social work practicum was at Mount Carmel East, and I learned more there than I can summarize easily.  I knew that I’d picked the right career choice when I started to miss working in a clinic on … Continue reading →

I’ve never been much of a diagram guy.  My Public Health master’s program spends a good bit of time on program planning and teaching us to create things like logic models, but as someone who tends to be more narrative-focused, … Continue reading →