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Logan Medical Center case manager Janet Ruhl says the hospital is changing with the times. Photo by James Coburn

Laughing with Elizabeth...Commentary by By Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal, RN

Linda Fanning, RN, BSN, MS, is one of two directors of nursing at Mercy Health Center and understands the value of leading by example. Photo by Elissa Crocker

Each week we visit with health care professionals throughout Oklahoma. If you would like us to visit your facility, please email Crystal White-Beshear at: news@okcnursingtimes.com

Salley Carter, R.N., and Dan Hamilton work at The Colonial Art Gallery & Co. in Oklahoma City. The registered nurse takes care of patients by day and can often be found at the Gallery in the evening. Photo by Mike Lee

Community Educator Carrie Spires and RN Case Manager Sandi Allen say patients and staff are like one big family. Patients can expect holistic nursing rendered by compassion at Healing Touch Home Health, according to Allen. Photo by James Coburn

A whirlwind year with a new base and new helicopter was capped off recently after Medi Flight learned it had received the most prestigious certification in the air ambulance business.

Integris Health and its partners in the Evidence Based Practice Center of Oklahoma: a collaborating center of the Joanna Briggs Institute, the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing and Veterans Administration Hospital in Oklahoma City, would like to extend an invitation to nursing students, staff and faculty to submit abstracts to our upcoming conference spotlighting evidence based practice.

TSG Incorporated welcomes new Executive Director of Senior Services, Jeanene L. Bales, whom will oversee the Senior Services at the six hospitals owned and operated by TSG Incorporated and Jefferson’s Garden Assisted Living in Edmond.