Making the Best of Every Day
“If you treat others the way you wish to be treated, and you are loyal to those who love and support you, and you live in faith, God will work in your life with best intentions for you.”
78 Photo Essay: Tracy Spain, Dental Hygienist, Bivona Family Dentistry
“I get so much joy out of making each patient feel better. I have had patients become tearful in the chair because they are getting to smile in pictures, and they haven’t smiled in years.”
78 Photo Essay: Kristy Mauldin, Comfort Care Hospice Administrator
Her journey into the medical field began while working as a transporter, wheeling patients from their beds to anywhere in Walker Baptist Hospital. “A light bulb went off around 1992, and I decided I wanted to be a nurse,” Mauldin says.
78 Photo Essay: Frances Stephens, Nursing Student, BSCC
“I love those moments of bonding in women’s health, like in the first moments of a mom meeting her baby for the first time, seeing a baby breathe for the first time, or being there to comfort moms when something is wrong.”
78 Photo Essay: Emma Crumpton, Physical Therapist, TherapySouth
“Every day is different, every patient is at a different stage in recovery so there is no monotony. Almost always I’m seeing patients at one of their most vulnerable times and I have to earn their trust.”
78 Photo Essay: Halie Savage, Speech Language Pathologist, Hyche Center
“I didn’t even know speech pathology was a thing. But when I observed the therapist help the patient to find his voice and communicate, I knew I wanted to be a part of that blessing—helping others.”
Young entrepreneur Lily Drummond brings new twist to spa experience at Elle Luxe
“My relationships with my clients are very genuine… showing clients that we really care about them. We are not just selling a product or a service.”
78 Photo Essay: Bryan Gill and Marc Davis, Oral Ceramic Dental Lab
“Few people can walk in these doors and in five years be able to do it. I'm still trying to get to the point where I can do what he can do,” Bryan says. “You need mechanical and artistic ability. You need the eye to do it.”
78 Photo Essay: Sandy Prescott, Administrator, Lakewood Senior Living
“Really and truly my story is the people I serve,” says Sandy. “I feel like I am an accumulation of all the wonderful people I have served, the people I work beside, and the families I’ve come to know. They have made me who I am today.”
Capstone Rural Health Center Opens Clinic in West Jasper
“This site was chosen because the Jasper Area Family Services Center provides a community-based facility for families to access services, as well as being centrally located, making it easily accessible to the community regardless of access to transportation,” says Dr. David Jones, Executive Director of Capstone Rural Health.