![]() ![]() “Very driven,” added Julia Carney, assistant dean of nursing in BC3’s Shaffer School of Nursing and Allied Health. Patty Annear, dean of BC3’s Shaffer School of Nursing and Allied Health. Healthcare and social assistance organizations were the top employers in Butler County as of January, with 14,286 employees representing 16.3 percent of the county’s workforce, according to the state Department of Labor & Industry’s Center for Workforce Information and Analysis.īutler Memorial Hospital employs Delaney as a full-time certified medical assistant, her profession since graduating from BC3 with an associate degree in medical assistant in 1997, and Girdwood as a nursing assistant, a part-time position she began in December.īC3’s Health Care Students of the Year “not only do well academically, but are also invested in other areas,” said Dr. The 19-year-old Butler County Health Care Consortium has grown to include 36 employers and resource partners, Salony said. Mary Salony, secretary of the Butler County Health Care Consortium and assistant director of the Tri-County Workforce Investment Board, said students have been recognized since 2019 because “They are the future of our health care workforce in this county.” “The future of our health care workforce” Green is employed as a neuroscience nurse and Marsh, as a dialysis nurse. Students in BC3’s career programs can develop the skills needed to enter the workforce immediately upon graduation. 22, 2021, near an oak tree in Portersville into which her younger brother crashed his all-terrain vehicle in a 2018 accident that inspired Girdwood to pursue nursing studies. Delaney has worked as a medical assistant since graduating from BC3 with an associate degree in medical assistant in 1997. Butler County Community College Nursing, R.N., students Marcie Delaney, of Zelienople, top, and Olivia Girdwood, of Portersville, have been selected as 2021 Health Care Students of the Year by the Butler County Health Care Consortium. Green and Marsh earned bachelor’s degrees at Clarion and Indiana universities of Pennsylvania, respectively, before graduating from BC3’s career program in Nursing, R.N. The college’s Nursing, R.N., students are joined in 2021 by student Emma Starr, Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School’s third honoree.ĭelaney and Girdwood follow BC3 recipients Philip Green in 2020 and Marissa Marsh in 2019. 28 by the Butler County Health Care Consortium during its virtual Health Care Worker Recognition Event.ĭelaney and Girdwood are the fourth BC3 selections among seven Health Care Students of the Year in the past three years. ![]() Marcie Delaney, of Zelienople, and Olivia Girdwood, of Portersville, were among those honored Jan. (Butler, PA) A single mother of three who contemplated nursing studies for a decade, then decided to return to her alma mater and join her 19-year-old daughter in Butler County Community College’s career program, and a BC3 scholarship recipient who’s “kinda all over” attending clinical experiences, tutoring human anatomy and physiology, and entering the workforce are 2021 Health Care Students of the Year. ![]()
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