Scholarships
Each year the Pennsylvania Health Information Management Association (PHIMA) awards education scholarships to students who demonstrate academic achievement and commitment to the field of health information management in Pennsylvania.
2017 PHIMA Scholarship Recipient
Brianna Graham
Brianna Graham is a non-traditional student in the Associate of Science in Health Information Management (HIM) program at the York Technical Institute (YTI) and is scheduled to graduate in May 2018.
Brianna works part time in the Medical Record Department at the WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital, while attending school full-time. She recognizes the HIM knowledge that she is gaining by having hands-on experience. Brianna also volunteered her time assisting her Director with a special record storage project.
Those her know Brianna find her to be an incredibly dedicated, hardworking, detail-oriented and inquisitive. One of her instructors observed that she demonstrates a commitment to excellence and embraces her class work with an earnest desire for learning and to obtain the most valuable experience from it. Brianna is also noted to be a team-player, gets along well with her classmates and co-workers and is always willing to help others.