Androscoggin Home Healthcare & Hospice creates nursing scholarship

LEWISTON — Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice has created the Julie Shackley Memorial Scholarship Endowment for Nursing Education for employees who wish to pursue or advance their professional education in nursing.

Two applicants will be awarded scholarship of $2,000 each each year, distributed $1,000 per semester.
The nursing scholarship is named in memory of Julie Shackley, who was president and CEO at Androscoggin from 2005 to 2016. She was a clinician at heart and spent many years caring for patients, practicing primarily in home health care and hospice, and was a catalyst for the first Hospice House in Maine, said a news release announcing the scholarship.
Shackley earned a bachelor of science degree in nursing in 1980, and master’s of science in nursing in 1997, both from the University of Southern Maine. She was an advocate for quality and professional development and worked for several years at Androscoggin as the supervisor of staff development.
Androscoggin President and CEO Kenneth Albert said, “The endowment scholarship honors Julie Shackley’s commitment to the nursing profession. It further honors the education and skill necessary to provide high quality health care at home.”