Month: November 2016

After graduating from Truman as a BS, CHES, I went on to get my nursing degree. I worked in oncology and then made my way from there into quality.  I actually worked from home for the last several years for a company that contracted out medical chart reviews for Medicare compliance.  I recently accepted a job at Scotland County Hospital as the Director of Quality and Risk.  I’m excited to get back to my roots a bit with the community health assessment.  I love community health and health education and unfortunately it’s not something I get to do very often.

I did want to take the chance to say that I feel I had a wonderful education through the HES department.  My job entails huge amounts of data and statistics and even though I’m a nurse and that changes my viewpoint a bit, I still use the critical thinking skills I was taught at Truman every day as I look through and try to decipher the meaning and value behind all these statistics. 

Jamie Cummings, CHES, earned her BS In Health Science in May 2015. She is an Environmental Representative with the Saint Louis County Department of Public Health. Her job requires her to enforce environmental health policies in various food facilities, nursing homes, daycares, hospitals, and lodging and aquatic establishments ensuring health and safety hazards are minimized.  She also helps enforce the new Tobacco 21 laws that were recently passed in Saint Louis County.  She has many learning opportunities such as First Aid/CPR training, Epi-Ready Training, and Special Processing classes.  Jamie is also in the process of studying to obtain the Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS) credential within the next year.