Marshall Awards Healthcare Scholarships To Local Students

Marshall, El Dorado County’s largest healthcare provider, has awarded six $1,000 scholarships to deserving seniors from El Dorado, Oak Ridge, Ponderosa, and Union Mine high schools. This year’s recipients represent the first graduating class to have spent all four years of high school within the timeframe of COVID-19. Their academic success, dedicated community service, and healthcare ambitions, despite the pandemic’s many challenges, make them standout that much more.

The one-time Marshall Healthcare Careers Scholarship assists recipients with tuition, fees, books, or other school-related expenses. Applicants are required to have a medical career aspiration and are evaluated based on academic achievement and community service/work history. This year’s recipients were selected from 34 scholarship applicants.

Congratulations to each of this year’s recipients. Marshall looks forward to your promising futures and to watching as you elevate the field of healthcare.

• Bailey Plimpton, El Dorado High School — Bailey is described as someone who leads with integrity, honor, and enthusiasm. He plans to pursue a double major in nursing and public health in hopes of an ultimate career as an emergency room nurse.

• Emilia Delmolino, El Dorado High School — Emilia plans to major in public health with an emphasis in epidemiology. As an epidemiologist, she will study the causes of disease within disadvantaged populations. She hopes to follow in the footsteps of her grandmother, who studied epidemiology in Argentina.

• Faith Spitzer, El Dorado High School — Faith plans to major in biology and pre-med studies so that she can pursue a career as a pediatric physician's assistant. Her goal is to “help kids feel less afraid of seeing a doctor, so that they can trust the medical system.”

• Francesca Strickler, Oak Ridge High School — Francesca plans to major in biology and will use that time to explore where she can make the most impact. This year she has already job shadowed in OB-GYN and Marshall’s ROP externship.

• Cara Johnson, Ponderosa High School — Cara plans to major in public health science and nursing and hopes to follow her dream of becoming a registered nurse. She attributes her pursuits to her family’s deep history of service within their community.

• Jasmyn Loera, Union Mine High School — Jasmyn plans to major in nursing and hopes to become a nurse practitioner so that she can provide compassionate care and make a difference in the lives of individuals within her community.

About Marshall

Marshall is an independent, nonprofit community healthcare provider located in the heart of the Sierra Foothills. Marshall includes Marshall Hospital, a fully accredited acute care facility with 111 beds in Placerville; several outpatient facilities in Cameron Park, El Dorado Hills, Placerville, and Georgetown; and many community health and education programs. Marshall has over 220 licensed practitioners and over 1,400 employees providing quality healthcare services to more than 180,000 residents of El Dorado County.

Learn more at marshallmedical.org.