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Births
Tabatha Brooks, Respiratory
Therapy, welcomed Paxton Wayne
Brooks on March 11. He weighed
7 lbs. and 7 ozs.
JerriLynn Derryberry, Fifth West,
and her husband, Andy, welcomed
Addison Grace Derryberry on
March 1. She weighed
6 lbs. and 3 ozs.
Jill Fields, Home Services, and
her husband, Billy, welcomed Ann
Cortner Fields on March 4. She
weighed 7 lbs. and 3 ozs.
Lynsey Tipper, Skilled Nursing
Unit, and her husband, Paden,
welcomed Madilyn Grace Tipper on
March 13. She weighed
6 lbs. and 11 ozs.
In Memory of Retirees
Emily Frances (Fran) Davis
passed away on March 3. She
worked in the Emergency
Department and was employed by
MRMC from 1980 to 1990.
Gladys Brown Ingram passed
away on March 16. She worked in
the Pediatric Unit and was
employed by MRMC from
1973 to 1984.
Physicians, from page 2
Dr. Peeler attended the University
of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama
where she received her medical degree.
She completed an internship in
internal medicine at the University of
Tennessee in Memphis, Tennessee
and also completed an internal medicine/pediatrics
residency at St. Louis
University in St. Louis, Missouri.
MRMC Recognizes Volunteers
The Auxiliary Service Awards Banquet
was held on February 23 to recognize volunteers
for their service to the medical center.
In 2009, 441 auxiliary members gave
a total of 67,368 service hours. Auxiliary
members received pins at the banquet in
recognition of the hours of service they
completed (see photos on page 5).
Human Resources helped to determine
the volunteers’ estimated pay rates based
on recent market figures and multiplied that
by the number of hours volunteered. A symbolic
check in the amount of $727,574 was
presented to CEO Robert Otwell representing
hours rendered.
Volunteers Elsie Price and Janey Walters received the pins for the most
hours served. Walters has volunteered for the auxiliary for 55 years and received
her 24,000 hour pin. Price has been a volunteer for 31 years and
received her 25,000 hour pin.
Pictured at the memorial presenation
are (l-r) Robert Vantrease, Rob Vantrease,
and Elizabeth Vantrease’s
former supervisors Ron Agnew and
Ann Morphis.
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Pictured presenting the mock check
to Otwell (left) are Auxiliary Treasurer
Dorothy Witherow (center)
and Auxiliary President Joe Bell.
Salters Speaks at Health Care Training
Dana Salters, women’s services coordinator, was invited
to be an instructor at a mammography conference
presented by Health Learning Source in Nashville. Salters
taught a training and review course on digital mammography
on March 13, and will facilitate three additional trainings
throughout the year.
Technologists, supervisors, department directors and
those interested in learning more about digital breast imaging
are invited to take the course, which examines digital
mammography and how to transform one’s skills to the digital breast imaging
modality. For more information on the course, visit healthlearningsource.com.
Late Employee Memorialized
The family of the late Elizabeth
Vantrease, former respiratory therapist
at MRMC, donated a painting at a memorial
reception hosted by Respiratory
Therapy on March 10 in Vantrease’s
honor.
Vantrease was an employee of the
medical center from 1973 to 2003. She
passed away December 2, 2009.
Presenting the painting was Vantreases’s
son, Rob. Vantrease’s uncle,
Robert Vantrease, is the artist who created
the donated oak tree water color.