Stratford Visiting Nurse Association awarded nursing scholarships to three recent high school graduates at a reception in their honor on June 11.
This year’s recipient of a $500 award for the Rudolph & Barbara Mastroianni Memorial Nursing Scholarship is Courtney Riordan. Courtney, who graduated from Bunnell High School, will be attending St. Vincent’s College in the nursing program.
Recipients of $500 awards for the Donna Curran Memorial Nursing Scholarships are Alicia Buynovsky, a recent graduate of Stratford High School, and Kaitlyn Giangregorio, a Shelton High School graduate. Alicia will be attending Sacred Heart University and is interested in maternity nursing. Kaitlyn will be attending Fairfield University and is looking to work in pediatric nursing.
“I am so pleased to have the honor of presenting the Stratford VNA nursing scholarships this year. We are happy to be able to help promote the future of nursing in this way,” said Angela Leonzi, Vice President of Patient Care Services.
The scholarship fund was formed by the Stratford VNA staff in response to the nursing shortage seven years ago.
The non-profit Stratford Visiting Nurse Association is a home health care organization that has served Stratford and other area towns in Fairfield and New Haven counties since 1919. Services include nursing, homemaker/home health aide support, physical, occupational and speech therapies, medical social worker support, psychiatric nursing, advanced wound care/wound vac, maternal-newborn care, oncology care, IV therapy, PT/INR testing, cardiac/high risk program, home telemonitoring, and more. A nurse is available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. The community-based VNA is governed by a voluntary board of directors, is Medicare-certified and licensed by the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health.
For more information, visit stratfordvna.org.
Courtney Riordan, Alicia Buynovsky and Kaitlyn Giangregorio have been awarded nursing scholarships by Stratford Visiting Nurse Association.