Mar 20, 2025
Courtesy Photo Pictured, from left to right, are the 2024 Thelma Orr Scholarship winners, Leah Themel and Allie Morand.
ALPENA — MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena Volunteer Services Department is offering two $1,500 scholarships for area students. Scholarships are available to students pursing an education in a human medicine related field with their primary residency in Alcona, Alpena, Iosco, Montmorency, Oscoda and Presque Isle counties. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, April 1.
The Thelma Orr Memorial scholarship is named in honor of Thelma Orr, R.N., director of nursing, and later was a founding Auxiliary member as part of Volunteer Services Department at the Medical Center in Alpena. A committee of volunteers reviews and selects the scholarship recipients. The scholarship may be used to attend any accredited Michigan college and applicants must be in their second year or more working toward their degree.
Applications with complete requirement instructions are available at mymichigan.org/orrscholarship. For more information, call 989-356-7546 or email orrscholarship@mymichigan.org. Applicants can anticipate a response regarding the status of their applications during May.
MyMichigan Health, a nonprofit health system headquartered in Midland, is a leader in providing award-winning, high-quality care to the 26 counties it serves. With Medical Centers in Alma, Alpena, Clare, Gladwin, Midland, Mt. Pleasant, Saginaw, Sault Ste. Marie, Standish, Tawas and West Branch, MyMichigan also has affiliations with Medical Centers in St. Ignace and Mackinac Island.
MyMichigan Health provides a full continuum of care across a wide array of settings, including urgent care centers, home health, virtual care, as well as medical offices in more than 80 specialties and subspecialties including cardiology, family medicine, hematology/oncology, neurosciences, orthopedics, pediatrics, vascular surgery, and more. MyMichigan Health demonstrates its commitment to the future of medicine by partnering with leading institutions to offer medical education programs that train medical students, physicians, nurse practitioner and physician assistant students, nursing students and other clinical experts for our region.
Recognized by Forbes in 2022, 2023 and 2024 as one of “America’s Best Employers by State,” MyMichigan is a major employer in all of the areas it serves. Its more than 13,800 employees, volunteers, health care providers and other personnel work together to create healthy communities through solutions designed to meet the ever-changing needs of the more than one million residents in the health system’s 26 counties served.
In fiscal year 2023, MyMichigan Health provided more than $128 million in community benefits, as well as supported its patients and families with new equipment, services and programs with funds raised by the MyMichigan Health Foundation, MyMichigan Medical Center Saginaw Foundation, MyMichigan Medical Center Tawas Foundation, and Field Neurosciences Institute.
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