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.

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.

“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to appreciate working with middle-aged people, older people, and children. Maybe it’s because I can relate with the middle-aged man who hurt his back cutting the lawn or strained his shoulder playing basketball with his kids.”

“In a given day, I might perform a minimally-invasive endoscopic stone procedure, a laparoscopic-assisted robot procedure, and an open-cancer operation.”

“If we can help get someone to the point where they are staying away from using the substances that brought them here, we have the ability to help provide them tools to find ways to deal with the situations that drove them to the substances in the first place.”