The Butler County Health Care Consortium has named two Butler County Community College students and a Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School student as 2021 Health Care Students of the Year.

BC3 nursing students Marcie Delaney of Zelienople; Olivia Girdwood of Portersville; and vo-tech student Emma Starr were named the award winners during the consortium’s virtual health care worker recognition event.

Delaney and Girdwood are the fourth BC3 students among seven Health Care Students of the Year in the past three years. Starr, who is in the health assistant program, is the third vo-tech students to win the award.

Delaney and Girdwood follow BC3 recipients Philip Green in 2020 and Marissa Marsh in 2019. Green and Marsh earned bachelor’s degrees at Clarion and Indiana universities of Pennsylvania, respectively, before graduating from BC3’s career program in Nursing, R.N.

A full-time medical assistant at Butler Memorial Hospital, Delaney graduated from BC3 with an associate degree in medical assistant in 1997. Girdwood has worked at BMH as a nursing assistant since December.

The consortium also honored the following health care employees: Raylene Baum, Quality Pharmacy; Sue Tack, Don’t Stop Dreamin’/QLS; Kaitlin Smith, Quality Life Services; Shannan Smail and Amberly Jackson, Concordia Visiting Nurses; Toni DeHart and Sue Miller, LIFE Butler County; Dawn Elmadollar and Karli Wolfe, QLS Chicora; Carrie Christman, Amy Stepowski and Nicole Corsi, Lutheran SeniorLife Visiting Nurses Association; Stephanie Balik and Jeff Lucco, Newhaven Court at Clearview; Lori Frederick, Lisa Fonner and Mary Ann Hughes, Transitions Healthcare; and Sue Switzer, Jean B. Purvis Community Health Center.