Letters: Nurses make the difference; No more election deniers near public office
Nurses make the difference
Every year between May 6 and 12, we celebrate National Nurses Week. During this special week, we recognize and honor the efforts of all nurses, including the 7,000+ dedicated nursing team members at Geisinger.
Being a part of Geisinger’s nursing team is something I’m proud of all yearlong. This week just serves as an opportunity and a reminder to publicly appreciate and thank our nurses who use their skills to positively change lives and shape the future of nursing.
This year’s National Nurses Week theme is “Nurses Make the Difference,” and it couldn’t be truer of our nurses and nursing teams at Geisinger. From their expertise to their comforting presence and passion to advance the profession, they embody the spirit of health care in every setting — the bedside, the clinic, the classroom, the helicopter, the home or the health plan.
I’d like to personally thank our nurses for their commitment to creating a culture of nursing excellence and remind them of the profound impact they have. Without their unwavering dedication, expertise and compassion, our ever-changing health care landscape would be incomplete. They continue to be the constant — the familiar and trusted face — for our patients, colleagues and communities of northeastern and central Pennsylvania.
This Nurses Week, join me in honoring all our incredible nurses and our extended nursing team who are the heart and soul of our health care community. Every day, they bring attentive, compassionate and skilled care. And every day, they make a difference in their patients’ lives.
Janet Tomcavage, Geisinger executive vice president and chief nursing executive
No more election deniers near public office
In the years since insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6, our country has emphatically pushed back against election deniers and conspiracy theorists and criminal fake electors.
Unfortunately, while a majority of the country has expressed an interest in preserving our democracy, Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate David McCormick is openly embracing those who seek to undermine it once again this November.
To any voter concerned about the fate of our democracy in the 2024 election, McCormick’s ties to election deniers, criminally indicted fake electors, and January 6 insurrectionists should be alarming.
He hired a fake elector who was part of an effort to the overturn the 2020 election, his campaign paid a criminally indicted co-conspirator in Donald Trump’s fake elector scheme in Georgia, he has attended fundraisers hosted by fake electors, and fake electors signed a letter of support for McCormick’s campaign. If that wasn’t enough, he was proudly endorsed by Doug Mastriano, an outspoken election denier and January 6 insurrectionist.
Every political candidate and elected official should be working hard to push these people undermining democracy back to the fringes of our electoral politics where they belong.
The fact that McCormick has done the complete opposite should make the choice to vote him down obvious to any Pennsylvania voter concerned with protecting our democracy.
Dorothy Neff, Bellefonte
The act of good
Man is microcosm. His act in freedom, in person against resistance of good within these grounds is the model for the motion of all the brilliant stars. The good done is summoned by the freedom in the new day – for time is moral – the pace of God on the justice He proposes for the world.
And the act of good in person is the full life of our embodiment. In doing it we become the heroes of the whole vast starry world.
For our good done there at the crux in great deed is the reason the universe is here.
John Harris, State College
