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■ Appointments Jason S. Crouch, ASN, RN, CEN, EMT-B, was appointed director of emergency services for Terre Haute Regional Hospital. He previously served as a nurse manager for Indiana University Health


Bloomington. He also is the treasurer for the Indiana State Emergency Nurses Association.


Jessie Westlund, RN, was named chief integration officer for Community Health Network. Westlund previously was CEO of Community’s home health services unit.


Sarah Knisely-King, RN, was named director of the emergency department at Community Hospital South. She returned to Community after serving as interim nurse manager and assistant director of


emergency care at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in Sarasota, Fla.


Cindy Adams, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, was named chief nursing officer for Community Health Network. Adams previously was director for cardiovascular outcomes research at CHN.


India J. Taylor Owens, RN, was named director of emergency services at Franciscan St. Francis Health. She is responsible for operations at the hospital’s emergency departments in Indianapolis,


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Hodges


Kim Hodges, BSN, RN, was named manager of the labor and delivery and postpartum units within the women and children’s services department of Franciscan St. Francis Health. Hodges previously


was the patient care coordinator in the hospital’s obstetrics unit.


Angela M. Bratina, MSN, FNP, BC, was named assistant director of nursing for the women and children’s services department of Franciscan St. Francis Health. Bratina was manager of the postpartum unit and newborn nursery at the hospital’s Indianapolis campus.


■ Training Registered nurses Laura Colgate, Stephanie Heckman, Melissa Lowder, Maria Smith and Kimberly Swisher received training in their specialties through the St. Francis Healthcare Foundation Employee Education Fund. The program provides financial support to non- physician employees to pursue educational opportunities.


■ Recognition Rene Atkins, RN, received the 2011 Spirit of Service Clinical Care Award from the Indiana Perinatal Network. The award recognizes clinical contributions in caring for pregnant women and infants. For 21 years, Atkins has been on staff with the women and children’s services department at Franciscan St. Francis Health. She has been a certified lactation consultant for seven years and has coordinated the hospital’s lactation services program for more than two years.


Four Franciscan St. Francis Health employees received 2010 Richard E. Fry M.D. Memorial Nursing Scholarships: Helen Stephon, University of Indianapolis; Tyler Thomas, Marian University; Morgan Welsh, University of Indianapolis; and Kathryn Wenning, University of Indianapolis. In the last decade, 48 scholarships totaling $115,000 have been awarded to student nurses.


Wood


Michele Kuntz Wood, RN, was recognized by the Central Indiana affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure with a lifetime achievement award. The honor was bestowed at the breast cancer group’s


Pink Tie Ball in February. Wood, manager for women and children’s services at Franciscan St. Francis Health, helped organize the first local Race for the Cure in 1992, co-chaired the event in 2005, founded the local Y-Me Breast Cancer Organization, spearheaded legislation to authorize the breast cancer license plate and was state coordinator for the National Breast Cancer Coalition.


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