Widow: BMH nurse an 'angel of God'
When Richard Foust, 82, succumbed to leukemia on Thanksgiving at Butler Memorial Hospital, his shaken wife was glad that registered nurse Shawna Alben was assigned to his case.
“She showed so much love and compassion and care for him,” said Sally Foust of Saxonburg. “It was like he was the only patient in the hospital, and that hospital was full.”
Today is National Nurse’s Day, which is the perfect time to highlight Alben’s compassion in caring for Richard Foust and his wife as well.
Alben works on 5 Main’s telemetry unit at BMH, where she has been employed for four years.
She graduated from Mercy College of Ohio in 2017 with her registered nurse degree, and in 2020 earned her bachelor’s degree in the field.
Alben started out in art school, but felt a calling to pursue her family’s vocation of nursing.
Sally Foust will be forever grateful for that turn of events.
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