Category: Life@Work

• Soul of CentraCare: Rachel Anyu-Lainjo, Director of Workplace and Patient Diversity

  I was born in Cameroon, Africa. Growing up, I didn’t know I was a minority because everyone looked like me!

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• Take a Minute to Breathe

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• My Why: Dr. Tiffany Rickbeil

  Before deciding to go to medical school, I planned to become a lawyer. But I worked for a law firm throughout college and knew before I graduated that it wasn’t for me.

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• My Why: Matt Peckskamp, PA

  The Benedictine values I learned in college are not only relevant for me in my vocational life, but my personal life and in relationships with other people, too.

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• My Why: Dr. Sean Wherry

  My father was a family medicine doctor and his father was a family medicine doctor, and they worked together in a small practice in a farming community in Northern Colorado.

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• My Why: Dr. Libby Brever

  The passion to practice day-after-day is not one of those things that just happens in an instant, but it happens over the progress of time. I really believe it is an honor to do what I do.

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• My Why: Denise Christie, APRN CRNA

  I had a phenomenal advanced biology teacher in high school who I really respected. Then in my senior year, I toured the College of St. Benedict and their nursing department. It just struck me as something that I wanted to do.

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• My Why: Maria Loerzel, MD

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• My Why: Dr. Jill Amsberry

  I come from a family of elementary school teachers, so initially I wanted to be a teacher.

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• My Why: David Buhl, PA

  Growing up, I had a mother who was a nurse. I had an aunt who was a nurse, too. I remember that oftentimes they’d be talking about their jobs. Sometimes as a kid I would go through my mom’s old nursing textbooks.

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