LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) — Mercy Health-St. Rita’s brought retired employees together for a luncheon to reconnect and learn about the hospital’s future.
Held every couple of years, the event is more like a family reunion for the more than 200 retirees, who reminisce with former colleagues about their time working at the hospital.
Held every couple of years, the event is more like a family reunion for the more than 200 retirees, who reminisce with former colleagues about their time working at the hospital.
Some former employees remain involved, choosing to volunteer their time at St. Rita’s.
Mercy Health officials also shared updates on the hospital’s future, acknowledging the foundation built by the retirees.
“Most of them here today are retired nurses, so I am a little nervous, just because I know what they built and what the sisters did for us to build St. Rita’s, and what they've built since. You don't want to let anyone down, especially as our families are in the communities, our neighbors, the people you see at the grocery store. So I'm hoping to learn from them and take their advice and run with it, and hopefully they help me along the way,” said Lindsey Paul, chief nursing officer at Mercy Health-St. Rita’s.
Retirees also heard from the authors of Facing the Impossible: A Noteworthy Pediatric Team at St. Rita’s Hospital, which documents how a team at St. Rita’s saved the life of a six-year-old boy with rabies in 1970—the first recorded recovery from human rabies.
