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Kirchner Named July Colleague of the Month for Springfield Memorial Hospital
SPRINGFIELD – Abby Kirchner, unit secretary for the 2C surgical intensive care unit, is the Springfield Memorial Hospital Colleague of the Month for July. Besides knowing every aspect of her job, Kirchner is devoted to the colleagues and patients on her unit. One example was when she came in on her day off to show kindness to a grieving family whose loved one would be taken off life support later that weekend. She collected fingerprints and handprints of the patient and transformed those images into
Two New Physicians Join Memorial Care at Koke Mill
SPRINGFIELD – Two physicians recently joined Memorial Care at Koke Mill and are now accepting new patients. Family medicine physician Dr. Jo Marie Hewitt earned a bachelor of science degree in biology from the University of Kansas and a medical degree from Cebu Institute of Medicine in Cebu City, Philippines, where she was class president. During her residency at Creighton University School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska, she was chief resident and received
Gastorf Named June Colleague of the Month for System Resources at Memorial Health
SPRINGFIELD – Carpenter Trent Gastorf is the Memorial Health System Resources Colleague of the Month for June. Gastorf is appreciated for the way he learns about the departments he maintains and ensures the work is appropriate and needed. His nominator recalled a leak in a Memorial Child Care classroom. Gastorf was at the facility for another work order and noticed the leak. He turned off the leaking humidifier and started cleaning up the water. He investigated how the far the leak had gone, pulled up