How Nursing Home Patient Changed CEO's Life
June 29, 2018
June 29, 2018
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, June 29 -- UnityPoint Health issued the following news release:
At age 16, UnityPoint Health - Peoria CEO Debbie Simon worked as an aide at a local nursing home, where she regularly took care of an elderly woman named Gertrude, who didn't communicate. Simon often found Gertrude balled up in a fetal position in her room, and because Gertrude didn't speak, Simon and her colleagues often filled the empty space with their own chatter. As teenagers, they . . .
At age 16, UnityPoint Health - Peoria CEO Debbie Simon worked as an aide at a local nursing home, where she regularly took care of an elderly woman named Gertrude, who didn't communicate. Simon often found Gertrude balled up in a fetal position in her room, and because Gertrude didn't speak, Simon and her colleagues often filled the empty space with their own chatter. As teenagers, they . . .