For 100 years, Holland Hospital has served our community in the spirit of hope, compassion, respect and dignity. It takes an extraordinary effort to achieve a century of longevity and success. How fitting that in celebrating our 100th year, we…
An Employee’s Story: Doris Van Eck graduated from high school in 1945 with an interest in medicine and the care of people. She decided to attend nursing school at Hackley Hospital in Muskegon and graduated in 1949. She was then…
Betty Tuinsma Bussies was born at the original Holland City Hospital on April 6, 1927. Betty grew up with one brother and two younger sisters. Her father was in the military, which required her family to move several times within…
An Employee’s Story: Jennifer Roger’s family has a history of four generations in Holland, Michigan. Her grandmother, Beatrice, was born in 1921 at her home on 13th Street. Jenn’s mother, Jenn and Jenn’s son were also born at Holland Hospital….
An Employee’s Story: Lois Van Dahm trained in the second nursing class ever held at Grand Rapids Junior College. She graduated in 1949, but at the time, licensure for practical nurses was not available. Later she pursued and received her…
Joyce Sherrell was born at Holland City Hospital on July 28, 1926. She was the tenth child of eleven. Both she and her younger sister were born at the original Holland Hospital. Her parents Peter and Hattie Boersema were Michigan…
Norma Hook is a Holland Hospital employee who works on the inpatient behavioral unit. She has been a nurse for 14 years with the hospital. Aside from nursing, she also spent a brief time in a chaplaincy rotation with David Blauw….
An Employee’s Story: Sharon Essink was born in 1948 in Hamilton, Michigan to Mr. and Mrs. Willis Essink. As a young girl, she dreamed of becoming a nurse. Sharon was intelligent and ambitious. She graduated third in her class from…
A Patient’s Story: Yvonne Bosman-Jonker was born at the original Holland City Hospital on April 27, 1921. She was the great-granddaughter of Jan Willem Bosman who was one of Holland’s earliest settlers. She married Peter Jonker III and together they…
A Patient’s Story: Having babies at Holland Hospital is a family tradition for the Bosch family, dating back to the 1930s. Jenna Bosch’s parents, Kirk (1958), and mother-in-law, Lynn (1955), were born at Holland Hospital as well as her maternal grandfather,…
