Colquitt Regional Medical Center awards 22 scholarships and grants to residents pursuing careers in healthcare

MOULTRIE, Ga. – Colquitt Regional Medical Center support aspiring healthcare professionals investing in the future of the community.

22 recipients were honored at the Ameris Bank Medical Education Center. The total amount awarded through scholarships and grants exceeded $63,000.

“So, Colquitt Regional most recently gave about 22 scholarships and grants out. We are grateful that we have five donor families that contributed an endowment fund to help fund scholarships of our Colquitt Regional employees. These were families that experienced care here and saw what our employees were doing as far as furthering their education, whether they were LPN, they wanted to go back to school to be in RN, or they were in RN going back to school to be a Nurse Practitioner. So, these donor families have come forward to help just employees here at Colquitt Regional to help them achieve their goals. Our hospital authority also selects a Colquitt county native or a student from PCOM South Georgia and provides a scholarship for those students as well to further their education and health care,” said Nicole Gilbert, Director of Foundation and Volunteer Services.

Colquitt Regional Medical Center awarded scholarships and grants to residents of Colquitt county pursuing careers in healthcare. Additionally, the center presented a teacher partnership grant to 13 local science and math educators, supporting both their classroom program enhancements and personal professional development.

Nicole Gilbert, Director of Foundation and Volunteer Services at Colquitt Regional Medical Center, highlighted the potential for these recipients to join the workforce at Colquitt Regional, thereby contributing to the healthcare field.

“We have to recognize that employees retire and that we have to look at the future and the generations coming up and how best we can educate them. So, if we can be a part of educating students who want to go into nursing, you know, we’ve experienced a shortage in nursing before. It starts early on. It starts with those math and science classes. So, when they come to college and go off to college and then we hope to help with the scholarship to further that education into healthcare. So, that is our hope that these recipients will come back to Colquitt Regional. We have the mentality that we want to homegrown our students. So, if we can help our students go off to either medical school or nursing or respiratory, they will remember Colquitt Regional and come back and give us an opportunity to have their career with us,” said Gilbert.

De’Andra Jacobs reporting.

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