Welcome to The Pulse

Heidi Pyrah, Respiratory Therapy Supervisor/Clinical Educator

What do you like about your job with IFCH? I really enjoy the great group of people that I get to work with all over the hospital.

What is your favorite thing to do outside of work? Indoors—watching movies, playing games; Outdoors—hiking, fishing, gardening

How long have you worked at IFCH?  I started when we were training in the warehouse before we officially opened

What is something most people don’t know about you? I was in Berlin just a few months before the country reunited and the Berlin Wall came down. I had a friend in Berlin who sent me a piece of the wall!

What is your greatest accomplishment? Raising my four children and surviving December 2020 during Covid at IFCH

Use three words to best describe you. Kind, Thoughtful, Quiet

What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery? I would buy a big house in a warm, beautiful place near the ocean

What is your favorite quote/motto? “You can sleep when you’re dead, push on!” –Captain Barbossa

AHA classes – You can now register for BLS, ACLS & PALS classes on your own without calling Education. You can go to the Mountain View Hospital public website www.mountainviewhospital.org/services/education and click on “Register for a Class” and choose the appropriate class. All of the reminder emails will go to the email you choose when you register. If you click on the “Choose a Class” option in HealthStream, it will take you to the website to register. If you register for a renewal and you are not current, we will send you an email and you will have to choose an initial class. We are hoping this will be a more convenient way for our you to register for a class and receive your emails.

Both ACLS and PALS classes require precourse and pretest work to be completed before coming to class. A copy of the pretest score showing a 70% or higher AND a copy of the completion certificate for the precourse work are required to attend class. Also, any student who is late 15 minutes or more will be asked to re-register for another class.

I wanted you to know that my son, Damon, was born last Sunday in your hospital. I was pleasantly surprised by a young man dressed in a white shirt with a bow tie who came to our recovery room and very professionally presented us with a menu. I thought, based on the food choices, this was a five star restaurant. I was also surprised to know, not only is my wife going to be taken care of with delicious food, but I was going to be served as well! I have had four children in four different hospitals. In 3 of the four hospitals I have been in, I have not been served food. Instead I was left to fend for myself while my wife dines on her meals (and honestly, not mad about it, after all I didn’t give birth to a child). I wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for the hospitality my wife and I were shown. We talked about how good the food was all week while we enjoyed our new little son.

Best Regards,

Phillip R. Meyer

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