Longtime leader: Nancy Webster

Nancy Webster longtime career in health care in Spokane. She has been with St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Medical Center since the doors opened, literally. She started out as a recreational therapist and rose the ranks to become the Chief Operating Officer. She just celebrated her 30-year anniversary this summer.

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Wed., Sept. 20, 2023

Nancy Webster, left, watches patient Karla Sliger is challenged to stand on a foam pad and toss balls at a target during therapy at St. Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Sliger is working with physical therapy student Marcus Garcia, second from left, and physical therapist Greg Dellino, right, in the gym at the rehab center. Webster, the chief operating officer of St. Luke's, is marking 30 years at the facility, where she started as a therapeutic recreation specialist.

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Nancy Webster, left, stops and chats with personnel at a nursing station at St. Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Webster, the chief operating officer of St. Luke's, is marking 30 years at the facility, where she started as a therapeutic recreation specialist. She tries to visit each department of the facility a few times each week.

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Nancy Webster, left, points out the posters with employees' seniority in service at St. Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. S Webster, the chief operating officer of St. Luke's, is marking 30 years at the facility, where she started as a therapeutic recreation specialist.

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Occupational therapy student Bailey Servoss, left, and occupational therapist Brian Kinder, right, watch as patient Steve Anderson practices transferring from a wheelchair to a mockup of a car in the at St. Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. The rehab center has specialized in helping people with various challenges to mobility and function because of injury, stroke or amputation since 1994.

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Chief Operating Officer Nancy Webster, left, greets patient Richard Becker during his work with therapeutic recreation therapist Sara Bryant at St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Medical Center on Sept. 20.

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