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Dominique Perry knew from a young property she wanted to go a nurse. “I grew up watching aggregate TV shows surrounding individuals successful the wellness attraction setting,” she said. “These radical were smart, respected and made a large interaction connected the patients placed successful their care. I wanted to marque those aforesaid lasting impacts.”
The archetypal successful her household to spell to college, Perry earned her bachelor’s grade successful nursing from Fresno State successful 2021. She completed a twelvemonth of work astatine Fresno VA Medical Center and is present moving astatine Community Regional Medical Center, the lone Level 1 trauma halfway betwixt Sacramento and Los Angeles.
“I’ve gained invaluable cognition moving successful the trauma intensive attraction unit. A emblematic enactment week includes providing attraction for 2 critically sick patients [and patients intubated with invasive hemodynamic monitoring devices],” Perry said. “My relation is to show [them] portion collaborating with different parts of the wellness attraction team, specified arsenic doctors, respiratory therapists and assorted imaging services.”
Perry was capable to execute her vocation goals, successful part, acknowledgment to the CalViva Health Scholarship she received portion a pupil astatine Fresno State. The assistance gave Perry the state to instrumentality clip distant from enactment to survey for her exams.
“As a azygous parent who worked full-time, balancing enactment on with schoolhouse was difficult,” she said. “I callback precocious nights and aboriginal mornings each excessively often. That extended abrogation allowed maine to determination guardant to the adjacent measurement of my career. I americium precise grateful to the CalViva donors.”
CalViva Health is a locally managed wellness attraction program dedicated to improving entree to prime attraction successful Fresno, Kings and Madera counties. CalViva Health established a concern with Fresno State successful 2019 done a $100,000 acquisition to enactment pupil scholarships.
CalViva Health has fixed $100,000 successful enactment of pupil scholarships each twelvemonth since, totalling $500,000 arsenic of the 2023-24 world year. The assistance has impacted 100 students receiving degrees successful the wellness attraction field, including galore students who stayed to service patients successful the Valley aft graduating.
The philanthropic enactment straight uplifts the Central Valley. Over 5,500 Fresno State students large successful wellness care-related studies each year, making up implicit 20% of Fresno State’s pupil population.
Perry, 1 of the archetypal students to person the CalViva Health Scholarship, is 1 of astir 4,000 nurses to person graduated from the university’s undergraduate nursing program. About 90% of those graduates person stayed successful the Valley.
This year’s CalViva Health Scholarship recipients with Fresno State officials.
To beryllium eligible for the CalViva Health scholarship, students indispensable beryllium enrolled full-time, suffice for authorities and national fiscal aid, support a 3.0 GPA oregon higher, and person a large wrong the wellness attraction field.
There were 20 students who received CalViva Health scholarships successful the 2023-24 world year.
Danielle Pinon, a inferior majoring successful psychology, is 1 of this year’s CalViva Health Scholarship recipients. She plans to prosecute a vocation arsenic a matrimony and household therapist, specializing successful household trauma.
“It meant the satellite to maine to beryllium a recipient of this scholarship,” Pinon said. “It helped [support me], and besides my son, this year.”
Jeff Nkansah, CEO of CalViva Health, said, “CalViva Health developed the assistance programme with Fresno State arsenic portion of our committedness to improving entree to prime wellness attraction successful the Central Valley. By investing successful the acquisition of aboriginal wellness attraction professionals, we purpose to code the captious shortage of skilled workers successful our section community. We judge that by supporting students similar Dominique Perry and Danielle Pinon, we are not lone investing successful their futures but besides successful the wellness and vitality of the Central Valley.”
With their generous acquisition of $100,000 for the 2024-25 world year, 20 much students volition person the accidental to prosecute their acquisition without fiscal constraints. This assistance enactment not lone benefits the recipients straight but besides contributes to the broader assemblage by helping to cultivate the adjacent procreation of healthcare professionals.
To larn much astir supporting pupil occurrence astatine Fresno State, interaction Katie Bewarder astatine 559.278.5768 oregon katieadamo@csufresno.edu.
