Tamara Montano, a student at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Community Memorial Hospital Scholarship. Montano, a current Cloquet resident originally from Red Cliff, Wisconsin, and a graduate of Bayfield High School, is completing the Practical Nursing Diploma program in her first year of the Nursing associate degree program at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College. She has a career goal to become a registered nurse, with a specific interest in working in a rural healthcare setting.
The scholarship is unique in that it was established as part of the relationship between the college and the hospital in Cloquet, with a goal of fostering an environment where the local healthcare workforce is representative of the communities served.
The Community Memorial Hospital Scholarship is awarded through a selection process based on criteria that includes professional promise, enrollment in the Nursing degree program at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, grade point average, and a stated desire to work in Carlton County and rural medicine. The scholarship can be used toward tuition, books, and supplies for the academic year.
For more information regarding the scholarship or the Nursing program at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, contact Mary Monson, Dean of Nursing and Health Sciences at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, at 218-879-0791.