Apollo Medical

06/27/2025

🌈 Pride Weekend in St. Louis 🌈

As Pride Month comes to a close, St. Louis is lighting up with love, unity, and celebration this weekend!

Let’s come together to honor the strength, resilience, and beauty of the LGBTQIA+ community. Pride is more than a celebration—it's a powerful reminder that everyone deserves to live openly, authentically, and without fear.

Whether you’re marching, dancing, supporting from the sidelines, or simply reflecting on the journey toward equality—your presence matters.

Here’s to joy, visibility, and progress. Let’s wrap up Pride Month in St. Louis with color, compassion, and community.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Happy Pride, STL!

06/20/2025

Apollo-DES was pleased to host an informative wound care inservice led by Lori and Debbie from ConvaTec. Their presentation highlighted the latest advancements in wound care products and technologies, providing valuable insights into more effective, evidence-based approaches to wound management. Attendees gained a deeper understanding of how innovative supplies and techniques can enhance healing outcomes, improve patient comfort, and streamline care delivery. This session was an excellent opportunity to stay updated on best practices and elevate the standard of care we provide.

05/26/2025

Today, we honor and remember the brave soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. Their courage will never be forgotten. Happy Memorial Day.

05/09/2025

A nurse’s loyalty is not to comfort or convenience, but to care, compassion, and the unwavering service of others. Today we celebrate a nurse who has been an Apollo employee for 5+ years, Nicole Davis. She knows a thing or two about all if the above.

1) If you weren’t a nurse, what would be your dream job?
Chef

2) What’s your nursing specialty?
Wound vacs

3) What’s your favorite go-to drink for an energy boost?
Coke

4) What’s your go-to comfort food after a long work day?
Mac n Cheese

5) Favorite medical TV show or movie?
Greys Anatomy

6) What’s something most people don’t know about you?
I was a bone marrow donor for my sister

7) Early bird or night owl?
neither.. lol I like my sleep

8 ) What’s your hidden talent?
I am a licenses cosmetologist

9) If you could work a shift with any celebrity, who would it be?
Jennifer Anniston

10) What’s one song that always lifts your mood?
Bitch by Meredith Brooks

11) Funniest thing that’s ever happened on the job (that’s HIPAA-safe)?
Going to the wrong house for a visit

12) What’s your favorite way to relax or de-stress?
Get my comfy clothes on and watch tv

13) If you could instantly master a new skill (non-nursing), what would it be?
Learn more baking skills

14) What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received that you can pass along to everyone?
Key to nursing is patience

15) What made you want to become a nurse? Was wanting a job that would last until retirement

05/08/2025

Leadership in nursing isnt just about guiding others—it’s about inspiring excellence, advocating for compassion, and creating a culture where every patient and every nurse feels seen and valued. Today we celebrate Heidi Hagood; a nurse who does all of the above for her team and their patients.

1) What made you want to become a nurse?
-I was a Candy striper in high-school, and an aide my senior year and then went into nursing . I never really had a plan to do anything else.

2) If you weren’t a nurse, what would be your dream job?
-Animal rescue

3) What’s your nursing specialty?
-I love wound care

4) What’s your favorite go-to drink for an energy boost?
-Sweet Tea

5) What’s your go-to comfort food after a long work day?
-MEXICAN OF COURSE

6) Favorite medical TV show or movie?
-Does Forensic files count

7) What’s something most people don’t know about you?
-I am very self conscious and always worry about what others think.

8 ) Early bird or night owl?
-Night owl

9) What’s your hidden talent?
-Crafts and animals

10) What’s one song that always lifts your mood?
-Overcomer

11) What’s your favorite way to relax or de-stress?
-Water. Anything to do with water or hugging my animals.

12) If you could instantly master a new skill (non-nursing), what would it be?
-Forensics

13) What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received that you can pass along to everyone?
-Pick your hill to die on, and we are all broken like glass; it is the way we let the light shine through that matters.

05/07/2025

Nurses are the heart of healthcare— their compassion, dedication and resilience heal far beyond medicine. Today we celebrate someone who fits this perfectly. Let’s get to know Morgan Stefani!

1) What made you want to become a nurse?
-I really wanted a big girl job so I could get out on my own and nursing school was a quick option. I also really enjoy being able to help people when they are in difficult situations.

2) If you weren’t a nurse, what would be your dream job?
-Is stay at home mom an option? LOL Probably an orthodontist.

3) What’s your nursing specialty?
-Memory care and wound care

4) What’s your favorite go-to drink for an energy boost?
-Iced coffee or a Diet Coke

5) What’s your go-to comfort food after a long work day?
-McDonald's chicken nuggets

6) Favorite medical TV show or movie?
-The Pitt

7) What’s something most people don’t know about you?
-I am really crafty; I love scrapbooking, embroidering, and cricut projects.

8 ) Early bird or night owl?
-Early bird

9) What’s your hidden talent
-I can tie a cherry stem with my tongue

10) If you could work a shift with any celebrity, who would it be?
-Amy Pohler

11) What’s one song that always lifts your mood?
-Pretty well any of Sabrina Carpenter's songs

12) What’s your favorite way to relax or de-stress?
-Cozy up after a hot shower and binge watch TV

13) If you could instantly master a new skill (non-nursing), what would it be?
-Cosmetology/hair styling

14) What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received that you can pass along to everyone?
-Fake it 'til you make it.

05/06/2025

It’s the kickoff of National Nurses Week! Let’s start it off right by celebrating one of our leaders, Danelle Garner!

*Get to know our nurses*

1) What made you want to become a nurse?
- I started out in a CNA class during my senior year of HS and couldn't find another good fit.

2) If you weren’t a nurse, what would be your dream job?
- Coffee barista in a book store.

3)What’s your nursing specialty?
- Wound care!

4) What’s your favorite go-to drink for an energy boost?
- Iced coffee or coconut infusion drink

5) What’s your go-to comfort food after a long work day?
- Pasta or chocolate

6) Favorite medical TV show or movie?
- Grey's Anatomy

7) What’s something most people don’t know about you?
- I am half Puerto Rican

8 ) Early bird or night owl?
- neither

9) What’s your hidden talent?
- I don't think I have one?

10) If you could work a shift with any celebrity, who would it be?
- Sean Patrick Thomas

11) What’s one song that always lifts your mood?
- Any on my playlist

12) Funniest thing that’s ever happened on the job (that’s HIPAA-safe)?
- Asked a patient on several accounts, how the pain the in their feet was and patient was a bilateral amputee. Patient and I had a running joke about it each time I went to the room.

13) What’s your favorite way to relax or de-stress?
- Music and books

14) If you could instantly master a new skill (non-nursing), what would it be?
- Be artistic

15) What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received that you can pass along to everyone?
- It is not a bad life, just a bad moment.

04/04/2025

Unlock your full potential! 💫

Our team is growing and we're seeking passionate Physical Therapists to join our journey in Missouri and Illinois! Are you ready to make a meaningful impact? Let's collaborate and grow together!

Reach out to our recruiter,
Andi Moore 🤩
amoore@livewellpartners.com or 314-325-0539

03/08/2025

International Women's Day is a day to recognize, celebrate, and uplift the women in business, leadership, and innovation who are shaping our world today. Happy International Women’s Day to the leaders of Apollo Medical: Danelle Garner, Heidi Hagood and Chrissy Dugan. Thank you for all you do!

01/21/2025

May the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. endure forever as we honor him today.

12/25/2024

Happy Holidays from all of us at Apollo Medical.

11/28/2024