Mission Health and A-B Tech have announced eight recipients of the “Mission Grows” CNA-I scholarship. The competitive program was open to Mission Health staff and their dependents, participants in Mission’s student programs including School At Work®, Mission Possible and Students@Work, and area high school students and community members.
The scholarship covers full costs
for the CNA-I certification program at A-B Tech, including tuition, books,
uniform and other required equipment. Award recipients are able to select the
CNA program schedule (based on availability) that best fits their individual
needs, with classes held initially at the A-B Tech campus on Victoria Road, and
later in 2016, on the Mission Health campus. The students’ clinical rotations
will be offered at Mission Health, and upon successful completion they will be
fast-tracked for CNA-I roles at Mission.
“We are so pleased to be able to
partner with A-B Tech to offer this program to our staff and to the community,”
said Sheila Meadows, VP of Human Resources and System Talent Management at
Mission Health. “Our goal is to identify great people who already work for
Mission, as well as those who will make exceptional future employees, and to
grow our own highly qualified caregivers by giving them a boost on their
educational journey.”
Sarah Lee is a current Mission
employee who was tapped for one of the full scholarships. “I appreciate the
selection committee identifying me as a recipient of this scholarship to help
me accomplish my goals,” said Lee, who has been employed at Mission since 2012.
“I started in Mission’s Environmental Services department with a desire to grow
within the hospital. In my current role as a dual skills technician, I help
monitor patients and communicate with nurses, as well as supporting the unit by
responding to phone calls, call bells and more. These positions have placed a
desire for me to move into the clinical side of the hospital to help provide
care for our patients, and this scholarship will help me move my career into
nursing.”
Latasha Johnson is not a current Mission employee, but sees
this scholarship as an opportunity to develop personally and professionally as
a member of the Asheville community. “My career vision is to one day work as a
nurse providing affordable healthcare to marginalized communities,” said
Johnson. “Without Mission Health awarding me a full scholarship to attend A-B
Tech’s nursing assistant program, I could never have the opportunity to achieve
my career goals at this time.”
“These scholarships represent the very best in a long
partnership between A-B Tech as an educational institution, and Mission Health
as a significant employer for our region,” said Christina Lang, Coordinator for
Health Occupations at A-B Tech. “Together, we are helping to assure a
well-trained workforce to fill high-demand roles in our community.”
Besides Lee and Johnson, other Mission Grows scholarship
recipients include Mission staffers Mary Castaneda, Marissa Pack and Roshunda
Foster; and Anna Grace Barefoot, Brittany Pressley, and Kaitlyn Brown, who are
family members of Mission employees.
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