“I started in the medical field when I was sixteen as a nursing assistant,” said Michelle Peters, director of community outreach for Saint Joseph’s Regional Medical Center about her start in the medical field. “I thought I wanted to be a nurse back then and found it wasn’t really the right calling for me.”

Even though being a nurse was not what she wanted to do for the rest of her life, Peters knew she wanted to stay in the medical field. She worked as a unit clerk at the hospital while still in high school and decided to pursue a degree in Business Administration and Management in college so she could stay in the medical area.

Today, as the director of community outreach for Saint Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Peters says she loves her job. After working for a few years in administration, she started working with volunteer recruitment.

“The volunteer position started to evolve because we had such a great amount of volunteer participation,” said Peters. Eventually, the work she did created a full time position of community outreach and she found herself overseeing several different programs and projects.

Some of the areas she coordinates and works with are health fairs and seminars, diabetic education, health ministry programs, senior health insurance information, tobacco initiatives, school health services, the Mobile Medical Unit, free flu shots in the area, and working with college students in securing volunteer opportunities to help with training in the medical profession. Read more