I know my series converges; how do I get a closed-form expression for it?

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I'm new to Mathematica. I'm trying to find a result in terms of $a$ and $c$ for the following summation with the restrictions declared in the code below:

Assuming[a > 0 && -1 < c < 0, Sum[Exp[-a*Sqrt[i + c]]/Sqrt[i + c], {i, 1, ∞}]]

Though this is a convergent series, the above yields no result; it gives an output like the following:

$\qquad \displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}{\frac{e^{-a\sqrt{c+i}}}{\sqrt{c+i}}}$

Even Simplify does not work!

Apart from Mathematica, does anyone have any idea how I can analytically obtain a closed form expression for the above summation?

I will be really grateful if somebody can help with my problem.