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Left to right: Dina Leduc, RN, '98, assistant director of Health Services; Barbara Seymour, Heath Services administrative assistant; Doreen Bischof, FNP, '17, director of the Mount's Health Services; Kelly DaSilva, RN, Health Services; Susan LaRocco,…

Three Mount Saint Mary College students have been accepted to the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Scholars Program, where they will care for underserved people living in rural and medically disadvantaged areas throughout New York State. AHEC is a…

When Chester, N.Y. residents Anthony Garzone II and his fiancée Heather Park, both December 2020 Nursing graduates of Mount Saint Mary College, saw a stranger in medical distress, they didn't hesitate to help. Just days after graduating, Garzone, Park…

Susan LaRocco, dean of Mount Saint Mary College's School of Nursing, will continue this semester's Investigating Research on Campus (iROC) series with her talk, "Male Nursing Students in Obstetric Clinical Experiences," on Thursday, March 11 at 4 p.m…

Mount Saint Mary College Nursing students and faculty have been helping local communities to fight against COVID-19 through contact tracing and, recently, by administering COVID-19 vaccines.  Contact tracing Over the summer, about a dozen Mount Nursing…

Susan LaRocco, dean of Mount Saint Mary College’s School of Nursing, recently presented a live webinar for the American Nurses Association Early Career Series titled “How to Ace Difficult Conversations with Patients, Families, and Co-workers.”   The…

About 50 Mount Saint Mary College Nursing majors are administering COVID-19 vaccinations to doctors, nurses, and other staff at four local hospitals.  The effort has been supervised by Lynette DeBellis, a Mount Nursing instructor and a 1985 alumna of…

Mount Saint Mary College honored 33 new graduates of its prestigious Nursing program at a virtual pinning ceremony on Saturday, December 12. The ceremony was hosted by Colleen Fleming-Damon, assistant professor of Nursing at the Mount.  Dr. Jason Adsit…

 This semester, Mount Saint Mary College’s School of Nursing awarded plaques of appreciation to two leading healthcare facilities in the Hudson Valley: Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital and Hospice of Orange and Sullivan Counties, Inc.  “Both were…

Mount Saint Mary College graduate student Benjamin Hayes ’15, FNP-S was recently named Student Nurse Practitioner of the Year by the Nurse Practitioner Association of New York State. The honor was bestowed upon Hayes at the virtual NPA 36th Annual Conference…