Pullman Community Update
VOL. 25 | NO. 11 NOVEMBER 2020
CITY OF PULLMAN | PULLMAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | PULLMAN REGIONAL HOSPITAL | PULLMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT | WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY PULLMAN REGIONAL HOSPITAL
Stephanie MacCulloch receives DAISY award for nursing excellence Stephanie MacCulloch, R.N., with Same Day Services, is the latest recipient of a DAISY award at Pullman Regional Hospital. The DAISY award is a national program designed to recognize outstanding nurses nominated by their patients and voted on by their nursing peers. Nominated by liver cancer survivor and patient Evelyn Harper from Kendrick, Idaho, Stephanie received the award in September in front of her nursing peers and other nominees. Stephanie has worked at Pullman Regional Hospital for 24 years. While going to nursing school, she worked in the Laboratory and then as a nurse in the Emergency Department when the hospital was located on the WSU campus. She moved to Same Day Services shortly after the new hospital opened on Bishop Boulevard in 2004. “I enjoy working in Same Day Services because of the variety,” Stephanie said. “One day I might be admitting patients or working in endoscopy, giving infusions or interviewing patients for pre-operative procedures on other days.” “I love that I get to work at Pullman Regional Hospital and serve the community in which I live.” Stephanie MacCulloch, R.N. (right) and Jeannie Eylar, R.N. Chief Clinical Officer.
Gifts of Grain As a wheat farmer on the Palouse for more than 50 years, Dean Bloomfield has had his fair share of bumps, bruises, and broken bones. When a cultivator pinned him down – cracking three vertebrae and breaking a hand, Pullman Memorial Hospital (then called) was there to get him back on his feet, even letting his son sneak up the fire escape to check in on him after hours. Ever since that accident on the farm many years ago, Pullman Regional Hospital has been there for Dean, his Dean Bloomfield family, and his grandchildren. Neighbor and fellow farmer Jack Fulfs, a member of the hospital’s Endowment for Quality & Access steering committee, came knocking on Dean’s door in 2015. Jack introduced a new way of giving back – through gifts of grain. Gifts of Grain is a program where crops from our Palouse famers are sold on the market, with proceeds directly benefitting the healthcare needs of the community. Local grain elevator operators have partnered with the hospital to sell these commodities on behalf of the Pullman Regional Hospital Foundation. Since its inception five years ago, the program has generated over $60,000 in support of the hospital's highest needs. The personal and local connection to Pullman Regional Hospital is close to Dean’s heart when it comes to giving back to the community. Spending months planting, growing and harvesting grain to turn around and donate it is a true testament to what a wonderful person Dean is and how impactful healthcare can truly be. Join our hardworking farmers who support the hospital by giving back this harvest season, and consider a Gift of Grain.
Thank You for Supporting Expanded COVID-19 Testing!
A partnership with Innovia Foundation helped us leverage a matching gift challenge offered by Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos—the All In WA COVID-19 Relief effort. Before a match, gifts totaled $48,580! This match has the potential to double our efforts, with every dollar supporting the increased cost of expanding our COVID-19 testing and triage center. Learn more: pullmanregional.org/covid-19-fund
In This Issue… Pullman Regional Hospital Pullman Good Food Co-op Pullman Chamber of Commerce Washington State University Friends of Hospice Pullman Kiwanis Whitman County Humane Society Community Calendar Pullman School District Gladish Community & Cultural Center Community Action Center United Way of Whitman County Spokane Falls Community Colleges Pullman Heritage Depot Center Rural Resources Pullman Community Montessori WSU Psychology Clinic
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