Diane Berman

Dottie Biggar

Rena Flint

Left to right, Deryl Gulliford, Jim Grantz, Aaron Light, and Doug Pursley.

• Denise Valente is noted for taking part in a “Marginal Arts Festival” in this article in the Roanoke, VA, Times. Denise and three RT colleagues created a display called “Respiratory Space” for the “out of the box” exhibit. 

• Tech. Sgt. Shawn Bovee comments on patient care during critical care air transports in this article on the Air Force Link web site. 

• Diane Berman is one of the sources for this article in the Portsmouth, NH, Herald News on five things to know about rapid response teams.

• Rick Pietrolungo comments on rapid response teams and other Institute for Healthcare Improvement initiatives at his hospital in this article in the Hagerstown, MD, Herald-Mail.

• Vrena Flint shares information about a special RSV clinic set up to help keep children out of the hospital in this article on the ABC affiliate web site in Salt Lake City, UT.

• Annette Nieves is noted as the respiratory therapist on a health care team for patients with cystic fibrosis in this article in the Connecticut Post.

• Michael Byron supplies lots of great information about respiratory therapy as a career in this article in the Pensacola Junior College Corsair. The Florida school has just partnered with another college to launch a new RT program on one of its campuses.

• Doug Pursley, Jim Grantz, and Deryl Gulliford comment on the donation of a pulmonary function machine by one RT program to another in this article in the Enid, OK, News.

• Dottie Biggar is pictured with a lung transplant patient undergoing pulmonary rehabilitation in this article in the Lawrence, KS, Journal World.