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A Profile<br />
in Excellence<br />
When you meet Alex Minko, Nurse Manager<br />
at Paul’s Run Retirement Community,<br />
you notice his engaging smile and focused<br />
attention. It’s not until you talk to him that<br />
you learn about his American journey that<br />
began ten years ago when he came here on<br />
holiday from Belarus. “I loved it in America,<br />
and when I met the love of my life, I knew<br />
this would be my new home,” he says.<br />
After working a few years at a variety of jobs,<br />
a friend suggested Alex consider working<br />
in a nursing home. No stranger to healthcare,<br />
since his mother is a pediatrician and his<br />
father is a family doctor, he took his<br />
friend up on the suggestion and has<br />
never looked back.<br />
A job in a nursing home led to acquiring a<br />
nursing assistant certificate, and<br />
then enrolling in<br />
pre-requisite courses in nursing at his local<br />
community college. Soon he was looking<br />
for better job opportunities and a<br />
chance to complete his Licensed<br />
Practical Nurse Degree, which he<br />
did, while working full time, at<br />
Eastern Center for Arts and Technology. In<br />
2008, he found himself as a LPN for a local<br />
nursing home and happily working many<br />
weekend shifts as a “pool” nurse at Artman.<br />
When a LPN position opened at Paul’s Run a<br />
year later, Alex applied and got the job.<br />
He continued to work full time while<br />
pursuing a RN degree on the weekends<br />
at Delaware County Community College,<br />
graduating in 2011.<br />
Alex isn’t finished learning. This past year<br />
he was promoted to Nurse Manager and<br />
received his certification in Wound Care<br />
and is planning to pursue a Bachelor of<br />
Nursing degree. “Paul’s Run has given me an<br />
opportunity to further my education and my<br />
supervisors have been supportive and<br />
flexible with my schedule when necessary.<br />
Tuition reimbursement is important, but<br />
what’s most important to me is that at<br />
<strong>Liberty</strong> there is a real commitment to all of<br />
the employees and learning.”<br />
Alex’s American journey has been one<br />
of growth, both in terms of personal<br />
development and the growth of his<br />
family that began with the love of his<br />
life, whom he married, and today,<br />
includes <strong>Liberty</strong>.<br />
At <strong>Liberty</strong> • www.libertylutheran.org<br />
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