Why rural? Vermont nurses explain how they find joy working and living in remote communities | AHA
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Gifford Health Care is spotlighting team members who live, work and deliver health care in rural Vermont, as part of its “Redefining Rural” video series. Gifford is a federally qualified health center with a critical access hospital in Randolph, Vt., and a network of community health centers throughout central Vermont and the Upper Valley. Selling its workforce on the unique offerings of rural New England involves letting the workers themselves explain how they find meaning and joy, whether in the work they do or in the surrounding community itself.
Nadine Nelson, director of nursing at Gifford Health Care’s Menig Nursing Home, whose family immigrated to Vermont from South Africa in the winter of 1994, leads a team that provides long-term care at the only skilled nursing facility in Orange County. Nelson is passionate about working with older adult patients.