{"id":102844,"date":"2017-11-10T19:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T02:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/nurse-assistant-wins-state-award-for-work-at-cortezs-vista-grande\/"},"modified":"2017-11-10T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T02:13:51","slug":"nurse-assistant-wins-state-award-for-work-at-cortezs-vista-grande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/nurse-assistant-wins-state-award-for-work-at-cortezs-vista-grande\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse assistant wins state award for work at Cortez\u2019s Vista Grande"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a7eaee31-a945-481e-89fa-6aeddb539b35&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a7eaee31-a945-481e-89fa-6aeddb539b35&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a7eaee31-a945-481e-89fa-6aeddb539b35&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a7eaee31-a945-481e-89fa-6aeddb539b35&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1507\" height=\"1916\" alt=\"Joshua John holds his \u201cCNA of the Year\u201d award from the Colorado Health Care Association.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Joshua John holds his \u201cCNA of the Year\u201d award from the Colorado Health Care Association.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Vista Grande Inn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Joshua John, a nursing assistant at the Cortez assisted living home Vista Grande Inn, has been named \u201cCNA of the Year\u201d for his district by the Colorado Health Care Association.<\/p>\n<p>The award is given to one certified nurse assistant per district once a year. John was nominated this year for District 6, which includes hospitals and assisted living facilities in Dolores, San Juan, Archuleta, La Plata and Montezuma counties. He has worked for Vista Grande for about three years, and is training to become a nurse practitioner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love what I do,\u201d he said. \u201cI like coming to work every day. I like interacting with the residents, talking to them and making them laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he has always wanted to go into the medical field. Originally from Utah, he said he has spent his career in Montezuma County while completing a nursing course at Pueblo Community College. He hopes to an anesthesiologist or open his own rural health clinic.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his job at Vista Grande, John said he also volunteers at his church in a program that helps high-risk children, and at the Pi\u00f1on Project as a youth mentor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is something we need to do to better our community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The assisted living center\u2019s administrator, Paula Mitchell, said Vista Grande\u2019s supervisors have received similar awards in the past, but she wasn\u2019t sure if one of their CNAs had. She said she believed John deserved the honor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is an amazing caregiver and man,\u201d she said in an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inn employee named \u2018CNA of the Year\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5735],"tags":[21,13,668,2760],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-102844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-public-health","tag-retirement"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102844"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=102844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}