Future healthcare leaders start their careers with HOSA: Future Health Professionals, a national organization that prepares students for healthcare careers through leadership, service, and skill development. By offering conferences, competitions, and scholarship opportunities, HOSA prepares future medical leaders with the confidence and skills needed to succeed in the medical field and make a difference in the variety of communities within their job choice.

Janine Ensign, the HOSA adviser kicked off the new chapter on February 7th, with 18 members and 1 adviser. This year, the HOSA chapter at Park High has 20 members with Ensign still as the adviser.

Student officers help guide the chapter: Sophomore Ellie Slatter as president, Senior Cadi Perkins as Vice President, Senior Brooklyn Pintar serving as secretary, Sophomores Georgia Burns and Emily Schilling as the treasurers and the reporters Sophomores Aubrey Allen and Quincy Fatouros.

Recent events HOSA participated in dinner at the Elks on October 17 and the Fall Health Festival with Livingston Health Care on October 18, both events being successful. At the Fall Health Festival members ran the stations that were assigned to them: making food, water bottle decorating, a bone race, and making key chains, with an overall good review from the people who attended. The chapter is also able to attend the International Leadership Competition (ILC) in Nashville, TN on June 19-23. The HOSA competing team has decided that they want to make ILC happen, at this time four members and one adviser are scheduled to attend.

The HOSA chapter meets every Thursday at lunch to discuss upcoming events and help plan the coming year to grow and learn about leadership, teamwork, and the health care community.