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Ringgold Student Named All-American Scholar-At-Large Award Winner The United States Achievement Academy has announced that Samantha “Sami” Patillo of Finleyville, a student at Ringgold High School, has been named an All-American Scholar At-Large Award Winner. This award is a prestigious honor very few students can ever hope to attain. In fact, the Academy recognizes fewer than 10% of all American high school students. Patillo will appear in the All-American Scholar Official Yearbook, which is published nationally. She is the daughter of Dave and Christi Kulp and the late Sam Patillo of Finleyville. Her grandparents are Karl and Jean Kelley of Finleyville and Sam and Joy Patillo of Scenery Hill.
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Samantha “Sami” Patillo of Finleyville was named All-American Scholar-At-Large by the United States Achievement Academy.
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Monongahela Valley Hospital Nurse Receives Award for Providing Exceptional Care Mariaelena Perowski, RN, CCRN, PHRN, wants to help people get well quickly. That’s why this dedicated professional staff nurse is at home in the Emergency Department at Monongahela Valley Hospital (MVH). Perowski, who is a resident of Charleroi, has spent the last 21 of her 29 years as a full-time nurse providing emergency care to residents of the mid-Mon Valley. She is the recipient of prestigious Cameos of Caring® Award, which recognizes nurses who demonstrate excellence in nursing care, serve as advocates for patients and families, and embodies the Perowski: Mariaelena Perowski is the proud recipient of the essence of the nursing proCameos of Caring® Award, presented to her for her years fession. of dedication to the nursing profession. While her mother wanted her to study nursing, to MVH’s Emergency Mariaelena initially followed a different limited path — she married and started a fami- Department — she will provide emerly. At the encouragement of her friend, gency medical care to anyone in disthe mother of three applied to and was tress. Recently, while dining at a local accepted at Washington Hospital restaurant, Perowski and her daughter, School of Nursing when her youngest who is a flight attendant, sprung into child was only 5 years old. She studied action to provide CPR and chest comdiligently with her friend Georgina pression to a woman in cardiac arrest. Koslosky, RN, who is the Employee When paramedics arrived, the woman Health Nurse at MVH. Out of their class was flown to a hospital where she of 50 student nurses, Perowski and received an automated implanted carKoslosky received the “Exceptional diac defibrillator. Perowski is certified in Neonatal Care Giver” awards. Early in her career at MVH, Perowski Advanced Life Support and Trauma rotated between the Intensive Care, Nurse Care Curriculum and is a Critical Care and Progressive Care National Institutes of Health Stroke units. In the years that followed, she Scale Provider. She also serves as a provided care in every unit with the nurse educator teaching Pediatric exception of the Operating Room and Advanced Life Support and Advanced Delivery. She also served as a flight Cardiac Life Support. In addition, she is nurse for four years and briefly provid- a preceptor and mentor for new MVH ed in-home medical care. Today, her employees and college nursing stuquick response and caring nature is not dents.