11/21/2025
Home Health Hero of the Day!
🌼 Be an Inspiration – Nursing with Grace
👩⚕️ Deanna Halfman, RN, BSN
For nearly 8 years, Deanna has provided exceptional care to our patients — leading with compassion, skill, and a true nurse’s heart.
💬 “Be an inspiration — you never know who is watching.”
💙 What do you think families appreciate most about home health care?
The ease of worry and resources we can provide for them. Knowing their loved one is being looked after when they are unable to be near them on a regular basis. ie: bathing, dressing, medication set up etc, etc and most importantly communication with our agency on current and changing health status.
🌟 What do you love most about your job?
My consistent patient care using my nursing skills and knowledge to give them the best care I can. Making simple or critical on the spot decisions has been very rewarding.
💬 Memorable moment:
Comforting a spouse after the loss of his wife. No words, just holding his hand and listening.
🤝 How do you make a difference?
By being supportive, gaining trust, and developing relationships so patients look forward to seeing you each visit.
🩺 Something people might be surprised to learn:
It’s a job that doesn’t shut off. As nurses we carry our concerns home; there’s a lot of follow-up.
👩⚕️ Teamwork story:
Multiple wound cares. There are times when all staff nurses get the opportunity to assist on a wound care of a specific patient. Not only do we conference on the situation as a group, but we also work and obtain orders from infectious disease, their primary care physician and primarily the wound clinic at MCRHC. Our emphasis and education on wounds care has played a significant role at our agency and our success rate in healing wounds has been incredible.
🎉 Fun fact:
I love farming and horses. 🐴
🕯 Favorite way to unwind:
Going home to the barn and spending time with or riding my horse.
🏡 Favorite thing about Mitchell County:
Small-town family feel and our little hospital.
🎶 Theme song:
“Humble and Kind” – Tim McGraw
