Good Samaritan Announces Scholarship Awardees

Natalie Griffis (left), photographed with director Megan Uphoff (right), was recently awarded a Ron and Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship, Shirley Chavanu Endowed Nursing Scholarship and a Nursing Shared Governance Scholarship totalling $1,750. Griffis, a registered nurse in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, was one of 19 recipients of $19,750 in scholarships made possible by generous Foundation donors.

Jenifer Roach, RN (middle), surrounded by co-workers in the hospital’s Wound Center, displays a large check for a $2,000 Good Samaritan Health Care Career Scholarship awarded through the Foundation.

CHI Health Good Samaritan Foundation recently awarded to 19 area students whose field of study includes a career in healthcare.

• Jenifer Roach, Amherst - Good Samaritan Health Care Career Scholarship & Harms’ Family Endowed Scholarship

• Natalie Griffis, Elm Creek - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship, Shirley Chavanu Endowed Nursing Scholarship & Nursing Shared Governance Scholarship

• Evan Shaffer, Kearney - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship, Nursing Shared Governance Scholarship & HR & Suz Walker Endowed Scholarship

• Molly Dowling, Lexington - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship & Don & Delores Williams Endowed Scholarship

• Callie White, Broken Bow - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship & Don & Delores Williams Endowed Scholarship

• Riley Lawrence, Alliance - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

• Myka Smith, Kearney - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship &  Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

• Brooklyn Rowh, Kearney - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship & Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

• Kenzie Bonner, Kearney - Nursing Shared Governance Scholarship & Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

• Quinten Shaffer, Kearney - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship & Nursing Shared Governance Scholarship

• Vivian Slagle, Sargent - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

• Calyn Laible, Merna - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship & Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

• Faith McDonald, Rockville - LeRoy E Rheault Endowed Scholarship & Don & Delores Williams Endowed Scholarship

• Aspen Brandich, Kearney - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

• Margaret Smith, Broken Bow - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

• Adaline Sullivan, Kearney - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

• Juliana Hutsell, Kearney - HR & Suz Walker Endowed Scholarship

• Addison Knoll, McCook - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

• Katelyn Bennett, Kearney - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

Since 1989, the Good Samaritan Health Career Scholarship Program has awarded $348,641 in scholarships to 492 future nurses, respiratory therapists, paramedics and other health professionals. The selection process began with an April 1 online registration deadline. Foundation board members served on the selection committee. 

Generous donors make the scholarship program possible. 

For more information about the CHI Health Good Samaritan Foundation or to give to the hospital’s scholarship program, please visit give.chihealth.com/GSF-Home.