Lakewood Ranch Medical Center Foundation Awards Nursing Scholarships
The eight recipients of the 2022 nursing scholarships.
The Lakewood Ranch Medical Center Foundation (LWRMCF) awarded eight $2,000 scholarships today at a luncheon at The Grove Restaurant.
The Scholarship program began four years ago when a group of hospital volunteers reestablished the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center Auxiliary with a mission of creating a new nursing scholarship program to encourage the hospital’s student nurses and inspire staff nurses to continue their nursing careers with advanced degrees. Recently, the Board restructured the Auxiliary and it is now a Foundation working to achieve the same mission.
“Our goal is to ensure that our region has the best trained healthcare workforce possible,” says Carole Cowan, President of the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center Foundation. “We recognized that an advanced education is a way to help ensure that happens.”
2022 Scholarship Recipients
All recipients are students in college nursing programs at the undergraduate or graduate level who are affiliated with Lakewood Ranch Medical Center.
This year’s scholarship recipients and sponsors are:
- Kathryn Williams – The Lakewood Ranch Medical Center Scholarship
- Mazie E. Kelley – The Lakewood Ranch Community Activities Scholarship
- Lexie Starnes – The Grove Scholarship
- Heidi Dahlborg – The Ruenell Foy Temps Memorial Scholarship
- Caroline G. T. O’Mailia – The Goldberg Family Scholarship
- Jennifer Rae Favia – The Cowan Family Scholarship
- Michaela Hostetler – The Douglas Schiller Memorial Scholarship
- Danielle M. Taylor – The Jingle 5K Scholarship
Funds for the scholarships primarily come from The Jingle 5K and friends of the Foundation who donated money for named scholarships.
The Lakewood Ranch Medical Center Foundation
For more information on the Foundation or nursing scholarship program, visit our website or contact LWRMCF President Carole Cowan at carolecowan01@gmail.com.