Meet a Few of Our Peer Visitors

Peer Visitors are trauma survivors; having survived their own personal traumatic experiences and injuries.

The MetroHealth Peer Visitor program offers patients and their loved ones an opportunity to talk with a trained volunteer during their hospital stay.

 

Mark Kalina

Mark Kalina - Invincible

There is no “how-to” book for redefining one’s life after trauma. If there were, Mark would be the one to write it. 

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Nan Reilly

Nan Reilly - Resurrection

Nan has good reason to believe in miracles. She is alive because of a series of them.

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Jennifer Scibana

Jennifer Scibana

“You can’t let the trauma define you. You have to let it go, move past it. It doesn’t define you.”

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Amy Vitelli

Amy Vitelli

As a MetroHealth employee who is also a trauma survivor, Amy Vitelli has first-hand knowledge of the lifesaving care that MetroHealth provides every day.

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Pete Soto

Pete Soto

For Pete, can’t was never part of the plan.

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Trauma Recovery Center Programs

Peer Visitor Program

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