BRADFORD – Rhonda Dunlevy of Bradford was recently awarded the Ohio’s Hospice of Dayton’s Daisy Award and was recognized when she was presented the quarterly Bouquet of Recognition Award.
Dunlevy will be celebrating her 21st anniversary with the company in April.
The office is located in Troy.
“I do home care and currently travel to Sidney, Conover, Pleasant Hill, Piqua and Troy, she explained. “Occasionally I will have to cover other towns, cities and counties for other nurses.”
Dunlevy started out in Ohio’s Hospice of Dayton in Montgomery County for the first 15 years, then transferred to Ohio’s Hospice of Springfield for 2 1/2 years and has been with Ohios’ of Miami County for three years.
She began working at Ohio’s Hospice in April 2004, and prior to that, worked for Friendship Village in Dayton for eight years.
Ohio’s Hospice is a partnership of mission-driven, not-for-profit hospices in Ohio committed to a shared vision of strengthening and presenting community-based hospices.
“ I started out as a crisis care LPN, transferred to the on-call department, and then became a homecare LPN team nurse,” Dunlevy said. “Then I went back to school for my RN and was then an RN case manager for homecare.”
In her position, she is currently responsible for the daily care of 25 patients, patient assessment and monitoring, medication management, symptom management, care planning and coordination, patient and family support, and spiritual support. documentation and reporting.
Dunlevy said she decided to become a nurse with a goal to become a hospice nurse.
“After my grandmother received hospice care in the hospital I wanted to give back to someone else’s grandmother with the loving care she received,” she said. “I love my job and the patient care. I feel good about the care I give my patients and family. I do cry a lot with my job.“
She indicated that when she first started working at hospice, the patient numbers were in the 12,000 numbers and now that patient number starts with 43,000.
Who has been a big influence on her life?
“My parents, children, boyfriend, friends and grandchildren have all influenced my life and continue to do so,” she replied.
When she is not at work, she has other responsibilities in her community.
“I continue to be the president of the Bradford Community Club as I have for the last 10 years,” she said. “The Community Club takes a lot of my free time from work but is also rewarding in my life.“
Her spare time consists of helping out with fundraisers, benefits and spending time with her family. In the last year, she has also been involved with the Bradford Alumni Distinguished Alumni Committee.
“New in the last year is lake life,” she added. “ We have purchased a house trailer in St, Marys at Hecht’s Landing and our plan is for that to be our retirement home. So we have been remodeling it.”
Dunlevy graduated from Bradford High School in 1983 and went on to the Upper Valley JVS where she was involved in the LPN program in 1996 and then to Fortis College to receive her RN degree in 2016.
Because she does quite a bit of traveling, she is thankful that she likes to drive, which she has to do every day.
How does she juggle her schedule?
“I have a calendar that assists me with my schedule and is always by my side. Busy is an understatement for my life,” she said.
Dunlevy grew up in Bradford, the daughter of Charlie Wysong and Barb Wolf and has a brother, Jim Wysong.
“ I have been in a relationship of almost seven years with Doug Miller, also from Bradford,” she said. “I have three daughters, Laci and Keisha Dunlevy and Alexandria Bennett and two granddaughters Kyrin and Riley. My boyfriend adds an additional two daughters, Courtney Noffsinger and Katie Yohey, with five grandchildren, Quincy, Kyrie, Paxton, Wrigley, and Landry. “
Her future husband is very supportive, according to her.
“Doug is very supportive of my chaotic life and I am very thankful for him,” she said.
