{"id":3407,"date":"2012-12-13T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=3407"},"modified":"2012-12-13T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T20:56:53","slug":"brandywine-health-foundation-awards-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=3407","title":{"rendered":"Brandywine Health Foundation awards scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3408\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Image-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3408\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3408 \" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Image 1\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Image-13-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Image-13-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Image-13-1024x997.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Image-13-900x877.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Cheryl Monturo, interim department chair of West Chester University\u2019s School of Nursing, (from left) celebrates the scholarships with the recipients: Philip Kasitz, Kristen Branin, and Christine Cunningham.<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Three WCU nursing students receive $1,000 to further their education<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Three West Chester University School of Nursing students received $1,000 Cardiac Rehab Nursing Scholarships from the Brandywine Health Foundation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0\u00a0The students &#8211; Kristen Branin, Christine Cunningham and Philip Kasitz &#8211; received the awards at a holiday reception sponsored by \u00a0Brandywine Hospital and the Brandywine Valley Cardiology\u2019s Cardiac Rehab Center last week.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0Cunningham was also the recipient of the Marie Rooney Nursing Scholarship established in memory of Laura Marie Rooney by her husband, Joseph \u201cJay\u201d Rooney, and her daughters, Celeste Gitthens and Yvette Contois.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<!--more-->\u201cI am grateful that the foundation invests money in students like myself, so that as nurses we can impact the community and make it a healthier place,\u201d said Kasitz.\u00a0 \u201cThis will definitely enable me to spend more time devoted to furthering my education.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0Frances Sheehan, who heads the Brandywine Health Foundation, said Kasitz\u2019 comments reinforce \u201cthe value and importance of these scholarships for members of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0She said the Cardiac Rehab Nursing Scholarship Fund was started as a way to recognize the nursing staff at the Cardiac Rehab Center at Brandywine Hospital during the holiday season and has provided scholarships to 55 nursing students since its inception.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> <\/strong>Brandywine Health Foundation awards a variety of nursing scholarships, which are presented at both the December Cardiac Rehab Nursing Scholarship event and at an event held each spring. For additional information on the Brandywine Health Foundation and its Nursing Scholarship Funds, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandywinefoundation.org\">www.brandywinefoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three WCU nursing students receive $1,000 to further their education Three West Chester University School of Nursing students received $1,000 Cardiac Rehab Nursing Scholarships from the Brandywine Health Foundation. \u00a0\u00a0The students &#8211; Kristen Branin, Christine Cunningham and Philip Kasitz &#8211; received the awards at a holiday reception sponsored by \u00a0Brandywine Hospital and the Brandywine Valley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,1],"tags":[110,317,1243,341,1242,1246,1244,1245],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-brandywine-health-foundation","tag-brandywine-hospital","tag-christine-cunningham","tag-frances-sheehan","tag-kristen-branin","tag-marie-rooney-nursing-scholarship","tag-philip-kasitz","tag-west-chester-university-school-of-nursing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}