BRMC Awards Scholarships to Employee Children and Grandchildren
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- Written By: Baxter Regional Medical Center
The BRMC Employee Children and Grandchildren Scholarship is an annual scholarship funded by the BRMC Employee Fund Drive. BRMC congratulates the 22 area seniors who were awarded scholarships in May, 2015:
| Recipient | Parent or grandparent | |
| Chloe D Bell | Hamilton Bell, Pharmacy | |
| Brenton Butcher | Bill Butcher, Ambulance | |
| Hannah Grace Butcher | Kimberly Butcher, Lab | |
| Megan Lynn Cash | Wanda Hanks, PFS | |
| Kersten Ellis | Regina Ellis, Peitz Cancer Support House | |
| Macey Marie Evans | Sherry Evans, Surgery | |
| Tristin Jones | Suzanne Dunn-Jones, Home Health | |
| Clayton Allen Leroy | David Leroy, Accounting | |
| Courtney McLennan | Gisel Stone, 4 South | |
| Cody Neal | Sheila Neal, 5 South | |
| Tristan Neilson | Deborah Neilson, Cline Emergency Center | |
| Levi Neilson | Deborah Neilson, Cline Emergency Center | |
| Megan Michaela Platt | Wendy Platt, PFS | |
| Joseph Michael Prinner | Kathleen Prinner, Heart Surgery Clinic | |
| Abbie Lynne Sasser | Leslie Sasser, Home Health | |
| Hannah N. Uchtman | Dana Uchtman, Health Information | |
| Alexis Paige Watts | Melody Watts, Continuity of Care | |
| Paige Danielle Williams | Jillissa Williams, Baxter Regional Urology Clinic | |
| Mariah Adkerson | Deborah Hawkins, Administration | |
| Samantha Hazelwood | Marsha Humphrey, 3 East | |
| Jessica Leach | Deborah Leach, Home Health | |
| Amber Staples | Glenda Arnold, Administration |
The BRMC Employee Children and Grandchildren Scholarship was established in 2004 and has since awarded $215,000 in scholarships to 265 students. It is available to graduating seniors who are the children or grandchildren of BRMC employees and residents of Arkansas or Missouri. Scholarships are awarded based on academic achievement and financial need. The parent or grandparent must have been employed with BRMC for at least one year and must have worked 500 hours in the last twelve months.
Nearly every department at BRMC has had an employee's family benefit from this scholarship. In the words of one scholarship recipient, “I would like to personally thank you for selecting me to be a recipient of this scholarship. I am so grateful for the amazing opportunities that are ahead of me, and this scholarship will set me one step forward in reaching my dreams. Once again, thank you so much.”
The Employee Fund Drive committee originally established this scholarship to fund twenty $1,000 scholarships ($500 per semester) each year, but every year the number of scholarship requests increases. Since the BRMC Employee Fund Drive began in 2000, over $1.4 million has been pledged in support of the Employee Children and Grandchildren Scholarship Fund as well as the Employee Crisis Fund, Friends Funds, Mountain Home Christian Clinic, Hospice House and the four BRMC community health and support houses - Mruk Family Education Center on Aging, Peitz Cancer Support House, Reppell Diabetes Learning Center and Schliemann Center for Women’s Health Education.
For more information about the BRMC Employee Children and Grandchildren Scholarship or the BRMC Employee Fund Drive, contact Cindy Costa, CFRE, Director of Development, Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation, at (870) 508-1779 or ccosta@baxterregional.org.
Pictured: The 2015 BRMC Children and Grandchildren Scholarship recipients who were graduating from Mountain Home High School were recently presented their award. From left are Kersten Ellis, Jessica Leach, Alexis Watts, Megan Platt, Chloe Bell, Hannah Uchtman and LeighAnn Dowling, BSN, RN, a representative of the BRMC Children and Grandchildren Scholarship Committee.
