Registered Nurse Danielle Nowiski of Lake Huron Medical Center is tired. She is tired of working countless hours watching previously healthy people die from a virus that would not have killed them, had they only gotten a vaccination. … More DANIELLE NOWISKI: Medical Crisis
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar If Pam Baunoch and Becky Mayes are nothing else, they are ready. Ready and willing to … More PAM BAUNOCH & BECKY MAYES: Managing Emergencies
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Dale Hemmila Christine Robinet is a doer. A nurse practitioner at Physician HealthCare Network’s Macomb Family Practice, Robinet … More CHRISTINE ROBINET: Protecting Patients
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Dale Hemmila Early on in the Coronavirus 19 pandemic, if you found yourself nearly a thousand miles from … More SARAH VANDERHEUVEL: Stepping Up
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar As a woman of color, Jessica Totty has moved through the world very differently than her … More JESSICA TOTTY: Open Dialogue
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar Jennifer Michaluk and Elizabeth King do not remember much of the months of March and April. … More JENNIFER MICHALUK & ELIZABETH KING: Essential Staff
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar Just like in any profession, there are physicians who are good at their jobs, and then … More ANNETTE MERCATANTE, M.D.: Keeping Us Safe
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar I began planning this issue of Blue Water Woman a month or so into the pandemic. … More PATTI SAMAR: Shine the Light
By Dale Hemmila When you step into Salon PiZazz in downtown Port Huron, you are greeted by the gleaming chrome, glass, and mirrors that hair salons feature. But if you look beyond that typical luster, you will find an owner with a heart as glowing as the salon she owns. Salon owner Kelly Strilcov stands … More KELLY STRILCOV: Making a Difference
By Dale Hemmila For someone who surrounds herself with ships, Laura Scaccia makes a big deal about bridges. Scaccia owns The Mariner in downtown Marine City, a converted historical theater, known for its world- class display of shipping memorabilia and models, including an 18-foot long, detailed model of the HMS Titanic, and a recently acquired … More LAURA SCACCIA: Building Bridges