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Michigan nurses trade in their scrubs for hard hats

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, May 6, 2008

Mercy General Health Partners in Muskegon, MI, recently merged with Hackley Hospital to form Mercy Health Partners—becoming the largest Muskegon employer with more than 4,400 employees.  “The merger has been monumental to the community,” says Kathy Breunsbach RN, special projects coordinator at Mercy Health Partners, “as each of the four campuses has been serving the same community separately and competitively for over 100 years. We are stronger as one to our community.”

During the merger process, nurses from both organizations teamed up to focus on serving their community by sponsoring a Habitat for Humanity® house. A committee of staff nurses from worked with Habitat for Humanity to coordinate fundraising efforts and volunteers to raise the $40,000 and labor necessary to build the house. The nursing group chose the name “Muskegon Nurses Care” to portray the partnership and mission of the project and will break ground this week. The tentative completion date for the house is scheduled for December 2008. 

Source: Kathy Breunsbach RN, special projects coordinator at Mercy Health Partners

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