RUMFORD — Five Rumford Hospital employees have recently graduated from nursing and other medical career schools. Four have been working to become registered nurses and one has become a medical assistant.

Lauren Gilbert graduated from St. Joseph College with a Bachelor of Science in nursing. She is a graduate of Mountain Valley High School and lives in Rumford. She has been working in the Rumford Hospital emergency room as a technician and patient representative while attending college, but would like to work in labor and delivery, as her mother, Michelle Gilbert, RN, a longtime Rumford Hospital employee, does.

Another ER technician, who graduated from Central Maine Medical Center School of Nursing and Health Professions with an associate degree in nursing, is Sarah Haskell. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in business management from Bentley College. She swam competitively for 14 years and was a member of Natural Helping Maine at Cape Elizabeth High School. She also hopes to continue to work in emergency medicine.

Maegin Jolin volunteered for Habitat for Humanity in 2007 in New Orleans and wants to continue her education to become a registered nurse. She has been working the Rumford ER as a technician and also as a patient service representative in both the emergency department and at the internal medicine offices. Another graduate who is a second generation Rumford Hospital employee, Jolin’s mother, Tammy, works in the laboratory. Jolin earned her associate degree at Central Maine Community College as a medical assistant.

A former high school teacher and prenatal educator, Lisa Pivin of Bethel graduated from Central Maine Medical Center School of Nursing and Health Professions with an Associate of Science in nursing degree. Prior to that, she graduated from University of Maine at Farmington with a Bachelor of Science in community/school heath education. She would like to work as a registered nurse on either a medical/surgical or labor and delivery unit and continue to do prenatal education. Pivin is the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of two. She has been working as a patient service representative in the emergency department and central registration at Rumford Hospital.

Achieving her Associate of Science in nursing and having nearly completed her Bachelor of Science in nursing, Debra Shurtleff of Dixfield is also the mother of two girls. She has been working in the Rumford Hospital ER as a technician and hopes to continue working in an emergency department.