Joy Bonala
Joy Bonala is a multimedia journalist currently based in Summerville, SC. She began her career in print media after graduating from Western Kentucky University with a degree in photojournalism. She loved using her passion for photography to document local news and tell the stories of people in her community. Her career in journalism has allowed her to experience life across the United States with positions in Oklahoma, Virginia, New Hampshire, Wyoming and Texas. Eventually, she brought her visual skills to radio as a news director at an NPR news station in Abilene, TX. There she explored new ways to complement audio stories by incorporating still photographs and video. And now, as a content producer in the digital department at SCETV, she is a storyteller for the MyTelehealth Team which seeks to elevate public understanding and knowledge of Telehealth and its diverse services in South Carolina.
Stories
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Telehealth monitoring program provides feeling of safety for COVID-19 patients
March 18, 2021When the COVID-19 pandemic reached the small, rural town of Kingstree, South Carolina, Sandra Epps watched her tight-knit community grapple with the devastating disease. Before long, several of her own friends had lost their lives to the virus. “It was heartbreaking,” Epps... -
Virtual platform benefits kidney transplant patients
March 11, 2021“I have been on dialysis for 15 years and six months,” said Leona Dawkins-Derrico. The 51-year-old mother is one of the 600,000 Americans with end-stage kidney disease. Dialysis may have saved her life, but it cannot be a permanent solution to her health condition. Dialysis... -
Remote monitoring program gives reassurance to COVID-19 patients
March 02, 2021It started off feeling like a cold, but the cough got worse and then Felix Fredrick began to have body aches and chills. Next he woke up in the middle of the night, sweating and feeling strange. “I’m thinking maybe I am going through a heart attack,” Fredrick said. He wasn’t... -
Virtual care model helps patient build trust
February 22, 2021After Randolph Anderson learned he had contracted COVID-19, he isolated himself inside a bedroom of his home in Lexington, South Carolina. But he wasn’t alone. He was immediately contacted by a remote patient monitoring nurse from the Medical University of South Carolina .... -
Innovative virtual care program provides support for COVID-19 patients
February 15, 2021For Roger Flynn, one of the most troublesome aspects of contracting COVID-19 was that he could not receive treatment from his longtime family doctor. “It was getting harder and harder to breathe,” Flynn said. “It progressively got worse and worse and worse, and I called my... -
Lawmakers Rally for Broadband, Yet Affordability Remains an Issue
October 19, 2020In South Carolina, many children were unable to participate in online schooling when the global pandemic struck earlier this year. Similarly, hundreds of thousands of people in the Palmetto State could not receive telehealth services or work remotely because they lacked...
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