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Evans Army Community Hospital (EACH) hosted a groundbreaking ceremony to mark construction of the Intrepid Spirit Center (ISC) at Fort Carson, Colorado, May 13.
The $13-million facility will serve as Fort Carson’s dedicated center to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress in regional active duty service members.
“With so many suffering from TBI, we need to do more,” said David Winters, president, Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund (IFHF). “We want to make treatment more easily available to service members.”
The Fort Carson ISC will be the ninth facility constructed for service members thanks to the IFHF’s continued fundraising efforts.
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UCHealth has formed a committee in Colorado Springs aimed at supporting military spouses.
The committee of about 25 people is in the early stages of deciding what the vision of the organization will be, but officials say a major focus will be on professional networking and mentoring military spouses in the workplace.
That sounds great to Jamie Schnaak, a surgical trauma nurse working in the cardiovascular and thoracic unit for UCHealth who said she was “kicked out the door” and replaced in a job in Atlanta when she got engaged to an “Army guy”.
Ten years later, Schnaak, co-chair of the committee, is happy to be at UCHealth, where her manager understands the flexibility needed for military families and their unpredictable lifestyle.
For steady care and pandemic bravery, a hat tip to nurses
American Association of Colleges of Nursing includes Norwich images in video marking National Nurses Week
As President Dr. Mark Anarumo has said, nurses played a big role in helping Norwich mitigate the coronavirus pandemic during academic year 2020-21. Nursing staff and students, directed by Nursing Director Paulette Thabault and Center for Civic Engagement Director Nicole DiDomenico, kept the Plumley Armory COVID-19 testing center running, administering more than 28,000 tests in the spring semester alone.
The American Nurses Association and American Association of Colleges of Nursing are hailing nurses with National Nurses Day, which was Thursday, and National Nurses Week, which runs through May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. (Nightingale (1820-1910) transformed nursing by setting hospital sanitation standards, establishing a laundry to get patients clean linens and creating an “invalid’s kitchen” to