Brayundra Mosley is Now a Teammate at Atrium Health Floyd
ROME, Ga., July 31, 2024 – The Rise to Success program at Atrium Health Floyd is not the reason Bray Mosley is succeeding, but it is most definitely helping her achieve her goals.
She is one of 35 Rise to Success students at Atrium Health Floyd and was the first from Chattooga County. She graduated from Chattooga High School in 2023 with a goal of becoming a nurse.
Her career choice was not a life-long dream. She had her eyes set on law school until she walked by the health occupations lab at her school and saw the anatomy models and health care equipment. “When I saw the environment, that is when it all changed," she said.
Mosley registered for those classes, earning certification as a nurse assistant, patient care technician and medical assistant while still in high school. It was in that same program that she first heard about the Rise to Success program.
“I remember the day specifically," she said. “I was sitting in my high school nursing class. Our teacher was telling us that someone was going to come from Atrium Health and tell us about a program that could be beneficial to us after high school."
That speaker was Sheila Rawlins, Atrium Health Human Resources Rise to Success program manager.
“She told us about all the options we could choose for a part-time job and the schools we could go to," Mosley said. “I thought this is a really good opportunity. It fit with what I wanted to do after school."
She said she had known she didn't want to attend a large university, and she knew she didn't want to have a lot of student debt once she graduated. It made practical sense, she said, to live at home and attend classes.
“I wanted to go to a two-year school and work part time while going to nursing school," she said. “I love my family. I'm using my house as much as I can until I get financially stable. I can get the same education faster at a two-year school than I can at a big university, and it is affordable."
The Rise to Success program gives graduating high school students a special and personal opportunity to pursue a career in health care. The program pays students' tuition, books and fees, provides a part-time job that works with their class schedule and assigns them a mentor who checks in with them regularly.
In addition, there are Atrium Health-based seminars and classes on such topics as managing work-life-school balance and taking care of your emotional, physical and mental health.
Within a month of graduating high school, Mosley was working as a certified nurse assistant at Atrium Health Floyd. She started college fall semester of 2023. When the Chattooga County stand-alone emergency department opened, she asked to transfer to a position there. Today, she works part time at the Chattooga facility registering patients while taking both online and in-person classes at Georgia Highlands College.
That ability to work close to home is one of the things she likes most about Atrium Health Floyd.
“There are so many different jobs you can do, and they are flexible," she said. “On top of that, they have different locations that you can go to that may be close to home. Now, I don't have to worry about going all the way to Rome. That is what I really love about it."
Mosley said she has found the mentoring component of Rise to Success to be particularly valuable. Her mentor is Lamar Davis, a scheduling specialist and care coordinator in the Contact Center.
“We meet every single month. He checks in about my grades, about work, how I'm managing life outside of work and about my mental health," she said. “He's makes it personal to me."
Last year, Mosley, as the first Rise to Success participant from her school, felt a little pressure to do well.
“I was so excited. I felt like I was representing Chattooga and my little, small town," she said. Now she has become something of an advocate for the program. “This past year, they came back to Chattooga and got two more for the program. I was so excited that people took advantage of it. It's a really good program for after school."
Atrium Health Floyd recently welcomed 16 additional students into the Rise to Success program:
- Cedartown High School – Andy Ortiz Perez, Deysi Segura
- Chattooga High School – Emma Elrod, Enivea London
- Coosa High School – Kiana Tapia
- Gaylesville School – Sieanna Hall and Tiffany Morris
- Model High School – Kiley Gordon, A'zyriasia Woolfork
- Rome High School – Journei Griffin, Samanta Moraga and Emylly Reyes
- Sand Rock School – Destiny Daniell, Madden DeParlier
- Trion High School – Hanny Morales-Citalan, Kinzleigh Turner
In 2023, 15 students, including Mosley, were accepted into the Rise to Success program. Atrium Health Floyd introduced the program in 2022, with four students.
About Atrium Health Floyd
The Atrium Health Floyd family of health care services is a leading medical provider and economic force in northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. Atrium Health Floyd is part of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Floyd employs more than 3,500 teammates who provide care in over 40 medical specialties at three hospitals: Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center – a 304-bed full-service, acute care hospital and regional referral center in Rome, Georgia; Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center in Cedartown, Georgia; and Atrium Health Floyd Cherokee Medical Center in Centre, Alabama; as well as Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Behavioral Health – a freestanding 53-bed behavioral health facility in Rome – and also primary care and urgent care network locations throughout northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. Atrium Health Floyd also operates a stand-alone emergency department in Chattooga County, the first such facility to be built from the ground-up in Georgia.
About Atrium Health
Atrium Health is a nationally recognized leader in shaping health outcomes through innovative research, education and compassionate patient care. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Atrium Health is part of Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, which was created from the combination with Advocate Aurora Health. A recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research, Wake Forest University School of Medicine is its academic core. Atrium Health is renowned for its top-ranked pediatric, cancer and heart care, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Atrium Health is also a leading-edge innovator in virtual care and mobile medicine, providing care close to home and in the home. Ranked nationally among U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals in eight pediatric specialties and for rehabilitation, Atrium Health has also received the American Hospital Association's Quest for Quality Prize and its 2021 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award, as well as the 2020 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Equity Award for its efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care. With a commitment to every community it serves, Atrium Health seeks to improve health, elevate hope and advance healing – for all, providing $2.8 billion last year in free and uncompensated care and other community benefits.
About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit integrated health system in the United States – created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois, Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama, and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation's largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides nearly $6 billion in annual community benefits.