Good Samaritan Names Scholarship Recipients

Kailey Sawyer (center) celebrates receiving $2,000 in Good Samaritan Foundation Health Care Scholarships alongside Care Management colleagues Melissa Murphy (left) and Abby Olson (right). Sawyer is among 20 students awarded a collective $18,750 in scholarships this year funded by the Foundation's generous donors.

KEARNEY - CHI Health Good Samaritan Foundation recently awarded $18,750 in scholarships to 20 area students working towards careers in health care.

The annual Good Samaritan Health Care Scholarships Program congratulates this year’s recipients:

Evan Shaffer, Kearney - Good Samaritan Health Care Career Scholarship 

Faith McDonald, Rockville - Nursing Shared Governance Scholarship, LeRoy E Rheault Endowed Scholarship

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

Kailey Sawyer, Kearney - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship, Harms’ Family Endowed Scholarship, Evelyn Watts Endowed Scholarship

Hope Pickel, Elm Creek - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship, Don & Delores Williams Endowed Scholarship

Grace Softley, Kearney - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship

Marki Bertelsen, Logan Iowa - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship

Megan Throman, Ravenna - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship 

Sara Cline, Upland - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship

Kenzie Bonner, Kearney - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

Stephani Richards, Kearney - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

Anna Lindstrom, Broken Bow - Ron & Carol Cope Endowed Health Care Scholarship

Aubrey Zechmann, Kearney - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

Cody Swinarski, Kearney - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

Benjamin VanDiest, Doniphan - Don & Delores Williams Endowed Scholarship, HR & Suz Walker Endowed Scholarship

Kyla Brown, Loup City - Don & Delores Williams Endowed Scholarship, Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship             

Kayla Killion, Holdrege - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

Madison Huryta, Kearney - Bernard Haag Endowed Nursing Scholarship

Cole Bauer, Grand Island -  HR & Suz Walker Endowed Scholarship

JulieAnne Sheldon, Riverdale - Jim & Marcia Elder Family Endowed Radiology School

Since 1989, the Good Samaritan Health Career Scholarship Program has awarded $367,391 in scholarships to 512 future nurses, respiratory therapists, paramedics and other health professionals. The selection process began after the program’s annual April 1 submission deadline. Foundation board members serve 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 www.give.chihealth.com/GSF-Home.