The Butler County Health Care Consortium has honored, for the second time in two years, a student who chose to enroll in Butler County Community College’s associate in applied science degree program in nursing, R.N., after earning a bachelor’s degree from a Pennsylvania public four-year institution.

The consortium’s Health Care Student of the Year award acknowledges that “I’ve been doing something, and that people have been noticing,” said Philip Green, 33, who received a bachelor’s degree in medical imaging from Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 2007 and expects to be among BC3’s Class of 2020 registered nursing graduates.

Green follows Marissa Marsh, the consortium’s 2019 Health Care Student of the Year award winner who earned a bachelor’s degree at Indiana University of Pennsylvania before enrolling in BC3’s 70-credit program while working as a certified nursing assistant at Concordia Lutheran Ministries in Cabot. Marsh is now a dialysis nurse at an outpatient clinic in Seven Fields.

The 32 employers and resource partners in the 18-year-old consortium honored Green, a married father of four from Herman, during the organization’s Health Care Worker Recognition Event on Jan. 23 in Prospect.

Green and his wife, Jennifer, are parents of boys ages 8, 5 and 4, and of a 6-month-old daughter.

The X-ray technician and former nuclear medicine staff technologist at Butler Memorial Hospital, where he has worked for 14 years, said he enrolled in BC3’s nursing, R.N., program to expand his career options.

Following his expected graduation from BC3 in May, Green said he plans to continue his education to become a certified registered nurse anesthetist.

His co-workers describe him as knowledgeable, calm and hard-working, said Green, who also attends clinical training at ACMH Hospital in Kittanning two days a week as part of BC3’s program. “Being calm is important because there are going to be situations in the field, or in your family life, when you are going to have to deal with things on multiple levels,” Green said. “Being able to remain calm, and focused on a goal, is important. And I hope that someday, if I am ever in that situation, somebody will be able to take care of me and reflect with me.”

William Foley is the coordinator of news and media content at Butler County Community College.