ACHIEVEMENTS
Robbie Dumond, RN, is on the Nebraska DHHS Trauma Advisory Board.
Sharon Harms, CRA, received an Association for Medical Imaging Management Award.
Laurie Ketterl, RN, was saluted for using iPads to link a hospitalized mother and newborn.
Christina Saum, MT, won the Regional Member Award for her leadership in the ASCP.
Dumond tabbed for trauma board
Harms cited for excellence
Coalition calls Ketterl Hospital Hero
Saum receives ASCP award
Robbie Dumond, RN, has been appointed to a threeyear term to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services State Trauma Advisory Board. Dumond has served as trauma and emergency preparedness manager at Bryan Medical Center since 2012. His day-to-day responsibilities include managing Bryan’s Level Two Trauma Center, as well as emergency preparedness endeavors at the medical center. He is the board’s trauma nurse representative. For more than 25 years, Bryan has been the designated Trauma Center for southeast Nebraska. n
Bryan Medical Center radiology director Sharon Harms, CRA — who was recognized earlier this year as a Distinguished Alumna of Southeast Community College’s radiologic technology program — received the AHRA (American Healthcare Radiology Administrators) Award for Excellence in Medical Imaging Management. This award recognizes excellence in leadership. Harms was selected for exceptional innovation, leadership and administrative capabilities. The Association honored Harms in August at the AHRA Annual Meeting and Exposition at Washington, D.C. n
Neonatal intensive care unit manager Laurie Ketterl, RN, was featured as a Hospital Hero on a website of the Coalition to Protect America’s Health and on the Health Forum web page, a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association. The “Mother and Child Reunion” story recounted Ketterl’s efforts to use iPads to connect a seriously ill Kelly Steeby in the intensive care unit with her newborn son, Greyson, who was in the NICU. You can read the article by logging onto protecthealthcare. org/hospital-heroes/entry/ laurie-ketterl. n
Christina Saum, MT, received the 2014 Regional Member Award for the North Central Region of the ASCP (American Society for Clinical Pathology). Saum is the laboratory section coordinator-microbiology at Bryan. The award recognizes her spirit and passion for laboratory medicine. She introduces high school and college students to the profession during Discovery Days and Bryan Health Career Camp and as a clinical microbiology instructor for Southeast Community College. She also has presented a microbiology review at state and regional ASCP meetings. n
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