McLaren Oakland, the Pontiac hospital serving all of Oakland County through multiple care campuses, was inspired to support a scholarship helping local nursing students as it remembers one its beloved, previous leaders.
Named in remembrance of one-time McLaren Oakland Chief Nursing Officer, who died in an act of violence in 2023, provides Oakland Community College nursing students with a partial scholarship as they study toward their degree.
The inaugural recipients of the Dr. Calandra Green Memorial Scholarship have been selected:
- Lyric Bonner
- Tore Bond
- Vivian Kendall
- Christina Rais
Organized by Holiday Extravaganza, Ascend Foundation and Consumers Energy support the scholarship alongside McLaren Oakland.
“Calandra being a warm, caring, and thoughtful person are the same attributes that made her an incredible nurse to her patients and an effective leader and teacher to her colleagues,” said Chad Grant, McLaren Health Care Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, who previously served as President and CEO of McLaren Oakland during Dr. Green’s time at the hospital. “We were heartbroken following her passing. Her legacy and character still reverberate throughout McLaren Oakland, and we are very grateful at how this scholarship will advance her memory and help others enter the profession she loved.”
Earning her initial nursing degree from Oakland Community College, Dr. Green served in various nursing roles during her 28-year career. She joined McLaren Oakland in 2007 as a patient care services manager, ultimately rising to Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer, leading more than 300 nurses before moving on in 2018, eventually being named Oakland County’s first African American Health Officer.
In applying for the scholarship, students be currently enrolled at Oakland Community College, have completed 30 hours while maintaining a 3.0 grade point average in a nursing study. Applicants must then have submitted a 500-word essay on why they are choosing the nursing field.
About McLaren Oakland
McLaren Oakland is a 318-bed hospital that provides primary and specialty healthcare services to the greater Pontiac and Oakland County, Michigan communities. Founded in 1953, McLaren Oakland has grown to a comprehensive medical community that includes outpatient facilities in Clarkston and Oxford, in addition to an inpatient hospital in Pontiac providing a range of clinical services including emergency and trauma care, cardiology, cancer services, minimally invasive robotic surgery, and orthopedic services. McLaren Oakland offers ACGME accredited residency and fellowship programs in anesthesiology, diagnostic radiology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, and transitional year, in addition to a CPME accredited podiatry program. Learn more at mclaren.org/oakland.
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $6.6 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 13 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 490-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Learn more at mclaren.org.