Farmington Presbyterian Manor
OCTOBER 2022
Farmington Presbyterian Manor staff member receives scholarship assistance award Alana Crump, who has worked as a certified nursing assistant at Farmington Presbyterian Manor for the past four years, was recently honored with an award through PMMA’s Employee Scholarship Program. The program, which awards funds that can be used to help cover costs of tuition, books and other fees, distributed almost $56,000 in employee scholarships to 18 outstanding employees across nine communities in 2022-23 alone. Farmington Presbyterian Manor For Alana, who is in the Licensed Executive Director Jane Hull Practical Nurse program at Mineral presents Alana Crump with the Area College, the scholarship will come 2022 scholarship assistance award. in handy as she is ineligible for federal financial aid. Additionally, student loans would only cover a portion of her educational costs.
“I was very surprised and greatly appreciate it—it’s awesome,” said Alana. “It will definitely help me out in the long run.” As for her ultimate career plans, Alana is still up in the air, but hopes her time in school will point her in the right direction. “I hope when I go through clinicals at school I’ll get a more generalized idea of what I want to do, but I want to continue my education and maybe get my BSN or even go on to become a doctor,” said Alana. The Employee Scholarship Program was established in 1978 with an endowed gift from C.E. Koehn. Today, continued support from donors including payroll deduction elections from employees help maintain the scholarship program. To learn more and how you can contribute, visit giving.presbyterianmanors.org. u
You can call her ‘D’: Getting to know AL resident Norma Isgriggs The name Norma Isgriggs is a relatively new one around Farmington Presbyterian Manor—even to the woman herself. That’s because the person who was initially introduced to the community in April as Norma has actually spent most of her life going by “D.” “I’m getting used to Norma because it’s how people have gotten to know me, but my friends call me ‘D,’” said Norma, aka D. While the name may be new, D’s face was already a familiar one around the community thanks to her routine visits to see her sister. “My sister lived here for eight years and has been gone four,” said D. “Everyone here was so wonderful to her that I actually asked her if they were like this all the time and she said, ‘all the time.’” It was because of the experience she had with her sister that initially led D to come to the community following an accident. “I broke both bones in my arm after a bad fall at home and when I got out of the hospital in St. Louis they asked where I wanted to go. I said I that I wanted to go to the Presbyterian Manor because everyone’s so nice,” said D.
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