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Scholarships for 2 local health workers

Durango women win two-year grants

Two Durango women, both graduate-level health professionals, have been awarded a Colorado Health Professions Scholarship.

They are Allie Anderson and Russelyn Connor, two among 17 students statewide to receive the award. There were 120 applicants from around the state.

Each, awarded $30,000 over two years, has agreed to practice in a rural or underdeveloped community in Colorado for at least two years when their training ends.

The awards are sponsored by the Southwestern Colorado Area Health Education Center and the Colorado Health Foundation.

Anderson, through a three-year online program, is returning to the University of Colorado to become a family nurse.

She has undergraduate degrees – in exercise science from Fort Lewis College and nursing from the University of Colorado. She has worked in urgent care, women’s health and as a visiting nurse for mothers and infants.

She currently is the sexual assault examiner at Mercy Regional Medical Center and the sexual assault nurse coordinator for the 6th Judicial District.

Connor is working toward a doctorate in nursing at Regis University. She has been a psychiatric nurse for 30 years, receiving her nurse specialist license in psychiatry in 1996.

Connor is enrolled in the Regis long-distance learning program, which allows her to remain in Durango. She is particularly interested in bringing evidence-based research into clinical practice.

She wants to remove barriers to mental-health treatment for individuals and families.

daler@durangoherald.com



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