Incoming Mount freshman wins Hudson Valley magazine nursing scholarship
May 13, 2011
Newburgh, NY -
Excellence in Nursing finalist and Mount Saint Mary College
alumna Lisa Bilyeu ’08 of Lagrangeville (left) is joined by Mount
incoming freshman nursing student Jane Brach (center) of Walden,
and Deborah Hrelic, chair of nursing studies at Mount Saint Mary
College.
Bilyeu, who will receive her master’s degree in family nurse
practice during commencement at the Mount on May 14, was named one
of the Top 20 nurses by Hudson Valley magazine. As a staff nurse at
Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., she credits
her success in the intensive care unit to her graduate education at
Mount Saint Mary College. Bilyeu added that she anticipates a
career in internal medicine or endocrinology where she hopes to
“have an impact on health care and patient outcomes, creating new
and better ways of providing care.”
Brach, a senior at Valley Central High School, received a
scholarship from the magazine towards her studies at the Mount,
which offers the only four year nursing degree program in the
mid-Hudson Valley.
In 2010, another Mount alumna, Margaret Deyo-Allers, of St.
Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh, N.Y., was named the Hudson
Valley’s Top Nurse.