Hold the date for this year’s Homecoming Celebration!

The 2025 MCAA Homecoming and Annual Meeting will be held:

November 1, 2025
Brookside Golf and Country Club
2770 W. Granville Rd
Columbus OH 43235

5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Honor classes will be those whose graduation years ended in 0 and 5. The 50-year Honor Class is the Class of 1975.

Reservation information will be in the summer edition of the LAMP and online in the Alumni section of MCCN website.

Remembering Sister Barbara Hahl, CSC

It is with faith in God’s eternal love that we inform you of Sister Barbara's Hahl's death on January 27, 2025. She was a cherished member of our community and dedicated to serving Mount Carmel from 1981 to 2020.

From 1981 to 1985, she was missioned as the assistant administrator for non-clinical and clinical areas at Mount Carmel East Hospital. In 1983, she was recognized for her “business acumen and team-player attitude,” being designated to manage several new building projects that would expand the hospital. After earning a master’s degree in business administration in 1985 from the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, Sister Barbara served as executive vice president for 10 years.

As executive vice president, she developed and oversaw all programs for MCHS, such as hospice, homecare, outreach, and many others that are still a part of Mount Carmel today. She was senior vice president for community services from 1996 until her retirement in 2020 and was responsible for the spiritual health and wellness of Mount Carmel, including mission services, spiritual care services, and outreach.

She loved that Mount Carmel was dedicated to serving the poor. Her goals in life were always to “serve in the spirit of the Gospel” and see that “the lost, the poor, and the underserved are treated with reverence, dignity, and respect.”

After retiring at the end of 2020, Sister Barbara moved to the motherhouse at Saint Mary’s in Notre Dame, Indiana, where she lived out the last chapter of her life. Sister Barbara spent a lifetime being a voice for those who had none and taught others to do the same, and her significant impact on MCHS will be felt for generations.

Mount Carmel Dublin set to open next month

Mount Carmel is committed to offering comprehensive care close to home. Opening a new state-of-the-art 240,000-square-foot hospital and medical campus, is just another way we’re investing in bringing compassionate care to our community.

Mount Carmel Dublin Hospital and Medical Campus will open in April 2025. A Community Open House is scheduled on Saturday, April 12, from noon to 4 p.m. All are welcome to attend.

There also are opportunities to work in the new facility in clinical and non-clinical positions. Click here to search employment opportunities at Mount Carmel Dublin.

2025 Rachel Zook, RN, Memorial Speakers Series event will feature Dr. Laly Joseph

Watch your email inbox in early April for details and registration information for this year’s Rachel Zook, RN, Memorial Speakers Series event with keynote speaker Dr. Laly Joseph. The event will be held May 9, 2025, at Mount Carmel Grove City, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

About the Rachel Zook, RN, Memorial Speakers Series:

A generous planned gift from alumna Rachel Zook ‘54, RN, provided support to bring nationally recognized experts, authors, and speakers to provide interesting and timely information about nursing arts and policy, either in-person or virtually. Open to faculty, staff, students, alumni, members of MCCN Board of Trustees, and MCCN donors, the Series is a mechanism to engage our alumni and nursing colleagues across the region to encourage lifelong learning.

About Dr. Joseph:

Dr. Laly Joseph, DVM, DNP, CNE, RN, C, MSN, ARNP, ANP-B.C, FNAP, is currently the Dean, Professor, and Dr. Keith R. Berend Endowed Chair in Nursing at Florida Southern College, bringing over 30 years of experience in both academia and healthcare. Dr. Joseph is a board-certified adult nurse practitioner, with clinical expertise in palliative and end-of-life care, having received training through the End-of-Life Nursing Consortium. She is also a certified nurse educator through the National League for Nursing. Her clinical specialties encompass management, oncology, mobile health technology, virtual simulation, gerontology, and hospice and palliative nursing.

New volunteer opportunities available at MCCN

In January, Mount Carmel Health System expanded its volunteer program to include opportunities at Mount Carmel College of Nursing. Whether it’s greeting students on special welcome days, assisting with events and activities, stocking the skills lab, or helping in the library, there will be great ways to get involved at the College.

Applications to participate in this new opportunity are now being accepted. All volunteers are required to complete a TB test, provide immunization records or complete immunization testing, and provide documentation of a flu vaccination during flu season. Medical and religious exemption forms are approved on a case-by-case basis.

The majority of volunteer shifts are four hours long and fall between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, please visit https://www.mountcarmelhealth.com/for-patients-after-your-visit-volunteer.

Meet Melissa Stacy ’12, ’05, MSN, BSN

Professional Highlights

I proudly served in the United States Air Force and will be celebrating 30 years as a nurse May 2025. My current role is Director of Surgical Services, North Central Region, for OhioHealth, a job I’ve held since March 2019. Prior to that, I was Director of Surgery at MCW (2010-2016) and Administrative Nurse Manager (2001-2008). I joined Mount Carmel as a staff nurse in 1996.

Personal Highlights

I live in Marysville, Ohio, and have two sons: Christopher, 35, and Christian, 34, two very spoiled English Bulldogs, and a very patient boyfriend/partner in life of almost six years, Christopher, (yes, lots of “Chris” in my life) who puts up with my crazy schedule and my career ambitions.

Original hometown

Columbus, Ohio

Current hometown

Marysville, Ohio

When did you first feel the call to be a nurse?

My mom was an RN, and my dad was an army medic and later became an LPN. Never wanted to be anything else.

What television show do you have to DVR every week?

I don’t watch much TV but when I do it’s a series like Yellowstone, Land Man, Lioness. I am watching Zero Day on Netflix right now - love drama and suspense with history thrown in there.

What is your favorite memory of Mount Carmel?

The nuns and being able to see them in the halls talking to people. My family came there for care for many years, and I remember the nuns. Also getting to work and go to school in the same place and work with some amazing leaders. Mount Carmel had a palpable soul.

What book is currently on your nightstand (or at the top of your e-reader favorites)?

Let Them by Mel Robbins, Atomic Habits by James Clear, my Bible.

How has your Mount Carmel network helped you in your life, personally or professional or both?

I have had the honor of working and networking with some amazing people in my lifetime, but can always go back to MCW, and my time at MCCN, and honestly say that was an amazing experience, and so grateful that I got to work with so many amazing people.

What advice would you like to share with other nurses as they move from student to alumni of Mount Carmel?

Be a continual learner. Your journey doesn’t stop at graduation; it is just starting, and you have so much to learn and see. No one can ever take education/knowledge away from you, so learn all you can, no matter what you are learning about, it will help you later in life, somewhere, somehow. What you are not changing, you are choosing, so choose wisely when it comes to career choices, your circle of influence (who you spend the most time around), etc.