Mike has been a nurse for 34 years, with most of his career trading patients in the ICU. He has great compassion and kindness towards everyone he works with. Mike is a calm and patient person who always has a smile on his face and is ready to help those in need. When he is not workin 12+ hour shifts as a nurse, he spends his "days off" farming a 100 acre farm in Dalton.

Glenda is one of the most respected Nurse Managers at Aultman. She has a reputation of being a hard worker. She works alongside her staff and promotes a team effort when taking care of patients. She cares for us not only as employees, but as individuals. She’s worked on the same floor for her entire career and treats us like family. She puts in long hours way past what she should, because she genuinely cares about the patients and her staff. Our floor mainly takes care of surgical patients, but recently was converted into also taking care of COVID patients. While this has been a stressful time, I can’t imagine a better nurse to lead us.

“In a moment of crisis, reactions set the leaders apart from the followers.”
– Peter Stark Leading in a Crisis

In times of crisis, true leaders step forward, go above and beyond, and lead by example. Nowhere has this been more evident than at Mercy Medical Center during the current Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Mercy was the first hospital in Stark County to receive a COVID-19 patient. As Senior Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer, and Patient Safety Officer, Barbara Yingling, RN, BSN, MAed, immediately stepped forward to lead Mercy’s efforts. She had already proactively opened the Mercy incident command center the prior week. Barbara quickly and efficiently established herself as the incident commander and put her team in place. She has continued to guide this team, as well as the entire Mercy staff of health care workers through the very difficult planning, coordination and implementation of process changes that were needed to care for these patients. Barbara has worked tirelessly, 24/7 since the COVID-19 outbreak in our area. She has collaborated with area hospitals and health agencies both locally and state-wide to ensure that all patients in our community received the best care possible, while also protecting the team of healthcare providers needed to combat this disease.

This is just one example demonstrating Barbara’s accomplished nursing and healthcare leadership. She has a passion for project management, as well as a reputation for accomplishing demanding system integration initiatives and managing quality andpatient safety ...