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A scholarship for Oakland Community College nursing students has been established in memory of Calandra Green, Oakland County health officer who died in 2023 in a murder-suicide.
Both Green, 50, and her husband, Charles Quincy Green Sr., 52, were found dead in their Pontiac home on May 11, 2023. Autopsies determined he shot her and then shot himself.
The Dr. Calandra Green Memorial Scholarship provides OCC nursing students with partial funding for their studies.
The application period has closed for the first year and recipients will be named soon, according to a release from McLaren Oakland Hospital in Pontiac.
Green earned her initial nursing degree from OCC. She served in various nursing roles during her 28-year career, joining McLaren Oakland in 2007 as a patient care services manager.
She rose to vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer, leading more than 300 nurses before moving on in 2018, eventually being named Oakland County’s first African-American health officer.
“Calandra being a warm, caring, and thoughtful person are the same attributes that made her an incredible nurse to her patients and an effective leader and teacher to her colleagues,” said Chad Grant, McLaren Health Care executive vice president and chief operating officer, who served as president and CEO of McLaren Oakland during Green’s time at the hospital.
“We were heartbroken following her passing. Her legacy and character still reverberate throughout McLaren Oakland, and we are very grateful at how this scholarship will advance her memory and help others enter the profession she loved,” he said.
County Commissioner Angela Powell, D-Pontiac, a personal friend of the Green family, said at the time of Green’s death that “Calandra was a huge advocate for anything in the health sector and especially with African-American young mothers and minority health issues.”
Organized by Holiday Extravaganza, Ascend Foundation and Consumers Energy support the scholarship alongside McLaren Oakland.
To apply for the scholarship, students must be enrolled at Oakland Community College and complete 30 hours while maintaining a 3.0 grade point average in a nursing study. Applicants then submit a 500-word essay on why they chose the nursing field.
Information has not yet been released for the next application period. For more information, contact OCC, https://www.oaklandcc.edu.
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