Feb 15, 2023 | Team Member Spotlights
Although she didn’t dream of being a nurse during childhood, Sheila Simpson, NHA, BSN, now knows it is her calling. Simpson serves as senior director administrator for skilled nursing at St. Catherine’s Village, a retirement community and St. Dominic’s ministry. She...
Feb 8, 2023 | Team Member Spotlights
For more than 30 years Patsy Tennon has served the St. Dominic’s ministry in a variety of roles. In her current role as director of environmental services and transport, Tennon manages the cleaning of 1.5 million square feet, distributes more than a million pounds of...
Oct 10, 2022 | Team Member Spotlights
Mary Ann Smithhart, RN, BSN, currently serves as the director of nursing-geriatric services for St. Dominic’s Behavioral Health Services. She started her journey with St. Dominic’s in 1982, when the hospital was hiring 15 new graduates to help staff the upcoming...
Sep 23, 2022 | Team Member Spotlights
Taking a biology class in high school started a career path toward medicine. “I was amazed at how beautifully we creatures were made and how interesting the human body is,” says Gabriel Zevallos, MD, hospitalist at St. Dominic Hospital. Dr. Zevallos provides acute...
Jun 3, 2022 | Heart Health, Patient Stories
The days leading up to Richard’s heart attack and stroke at first seemed to him like any other week. “I was real big into exercising,” he says. “As age came on, I started doing speed walking. I got to where I’d go down two miles, then turn around and go back to my...
