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  • Keesler nurse striving for 'doctor' designation

    Soon nurse Juanita Mullins can be called "doctor." Ms. Mullins, a clinical nurse with the 81st Surgical Operations Squadron post anesthesia care unit, is currently working on her doctorate in nursing practice at the University of South Alabama College of Nursing. "I am in the first class to be

  • Keesler CDC on track for NAEYC accreditation

    Keesler submitted its candidacy package for National Association for the Education of Young Children this week, said child development center director Roveta Simmons. "We've always maintained NAEYC accreditation, but all the criteria are different this time around," she explained. Cherrie Tiggeman,

  • Former Keesler enlisted medics earn nursing degrees, commisions

    Staff Sgt. Anna Crane returned to Keesler Medical Center Sept. 16 after an absence of almost two years to share a very special occasion with the people she used to work with here. She left the medical center's Family Birthing Center in December 2007 to attend the University of South Alabama School

  • Variety of events planned for Fire Prevention Week

    "Stay Fire Safe -- Don't Get Burned" is the theme for National Fire Prevention Week. The observance, which starts Sunday and runs through Oct. 10, began in 1925 with a proclamation signed by President Calvin Coolidge that commemorates the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. "This year's theme focuses on