On March 23, the automatic doors opened at a rehabilitation center in Wall and a miracle walked out. A living, breathing, talking miracle.
A crowd of 50 people burst into cheers as John Kwiecinski, with the help of a walker, emerged into the daylight.
“You did it!” someone yelled.
Three hundred and sixty-one days after first being hospitalized with COVID-19, the 52-year-old Kwiecinski finally headed back to his Manalapan home.
“It was watching answered prayers and miracles right before my eyes,” wife Roxanne Kwiecinski said. “That was what we prayed for for a year. We would pray at the same time every day and all envision him walking out the door.”
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On March 23, the automatic doors opened at a rehabilitation center in Wall and a miracle walked out. A living, breathing, talking miracle.
A crowd of 50 people burst into cheers as John Kwiecinski, with the help of a walker, emerged into the daylight.
“You did it!” someone yelled.
Three hundred and sixty-one days after first being hospitalized with COVID-19, the 52-year-old Kwiecinski finally headed back to his Manalapan home.
“It was watching answered prayers and miracles right before my eyes,” wife Roxanne Kwiecinski said. “That was what we prayed for for a year. We would pray at the same time every day and all envision him walking out the door.”
Hollie Harris Phillipsis stepping up as the new president and CEO of
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, a not-for-profit system employing around 6,000 people across 13 hospitals and other additional practices.
Phillips has been with the health system since joining in 2002 as director of planning and most recently held the role of vice president for corporate strategy and chief strategy officer. Across her tenure, she’s guided strategic planning, marketing, business development, government relations and other efforts within the organization.
She will be the first woman to hold Appalachian’s top role and replaces retiring president and CEO Joe Grossman in May.
Prior to her time at Appalachian, Phillips held a manager role at LifePoint Hospitals. She holds a master’s in health administration from the Medical College of Virginia.