Rebecca Galloway

Nurse looks back at graduation and ahead to next challenge “How hard can it be?” That thought, plus a big breath helped Legacy Salmon Creek nurse and working mom, Courtney Christoffers, BSN, R.N., get up the courage to speak at her graduation last year in front of 4,000 people at Seattle's Key Arena after completing her BSN degree. Christoffers recalls, “So I got up there, adjusted my microphone, took a deep breath and did it. My mouth was sooo dry before I was going to be introduced, but than

Kindergarten friends together again at Legacy clinic When three kindergarten girls met at St. Clare School in Southwest Portland, they probably would never have guessed that years later they would land in the same profession and work together in the same clinic. But when Annelise (Annie) Petersen recommended her friends for jobs in her Northwest Portland clinic, that’s exactly what happened and the trio was reunited. Petersen works as a medication technician (pharmacy tech) at Legacy Medical

In 2018 at 38 years old, Libby Mongue ran her first relay race from Mount Hood to the Oregon Coast last year, raising almost $30,000 for the American Cancer Society's Fighting Cancer to the Coast event with a group of family and friends. She’s come a long way from December of 2000, when she first discovered symptoms that eventually led to her diagnosis of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, stage two. After her treatment paused her college career, she transferred schools from Clark College to Washington State

Michelle du Bois and Caitlin Brown work together side-by-side at the Legacy Devers Eye Institute where they help patients with retina issues. Brown and du Bois met three years ago while working for another eye clinic, so when du Bois anticipated another opening with Legacy, she encouraged Brown to apply. Du Bois says she knew Brown would be a great fit. “What I picked up initially was that she was a super-fast learner with a great attitude and very sweet and kind to patients,” du Bois said. B

Legacy nurse and bike commuter not afraid of traffic mess The headlines about Portland’s traffic “Carmageddon” don’t scare one Legacy employee. Adam Wright, R.N., has been commuting about 33 miles round trip from Oregon City and back to his job at Legacy Emanuel on and off for the past five years. Wright is Legacy Health’s clinical practice specialist and nursing educator for vascular access. The ride adds only about 10 minutes on to what his car commute to work would be, and is about the same

The Oregon Zoo’s baby otter “Mo” is getting swimming lessons from his mom “Tilly.” The two river otters are named for Oregon rivers, Mo for Mollala and Tilly for Tillamook. Zookeepers explain that otters are not born knowing how to swim. Until recently, the pair was kept in a private area, but are now in a public exhibit area. Though Tilly is a first-time mom, zookeepers say she’s “doing all the right things” in teaching Mo to swim. Mo is the first river otter born at the Oregon Zoo. An el