Matthew Skoufalos

After undergoing open-heart surgery as a teenager, Susan Boral thought she might someday enter the health care field.

Growing up in rural Maine, Suzannah Hall Maynard’s primary care provider was the Arthur Jewell Community Health Center, a federally qualified health center in the tiny town of Brooks. Jewell was a beloved doctor who tended to its population, and after whom the “little...

Like many nurses, Lori McLeer Maloney came into the profession as a second career. An economist with an MBA to her name, she’d spent a decade in finance and another on the homefront, raising three daughters, before she decided to go back to school for nursing. Making...

Bonnie Conklin Sullivan grew up the daughter of a nurse and granddaughter of a medical receptionist.

Pamela Elzy remembers the day her nursing career began as the day she told her mother she’d secured a scholarship to the University of Louisville … to be a history teacher. “My mother said, ‘Don’t be ridiculous; I’ve signed you up for nursing school,’ ” Elzy said. “I...

By Matt Skoufalos In 2002, Fitzgerald and his spouse moved to the West Valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area, as he started working in adult cardiac care at Boswell Memorial Hospital. Shortly thereafter, a phone call from Banner Health presented an opportunity to...