North County Grad Gets Scholarship

(Bonne Terre, MO) North County High School graduate Dreston Hoffman is the latest recipient of the 2022 Steve Lipstein Scholarship. To honor the work and dedication of Mr. Steve Lipstein, the Parkland Health Center Foundation established a scholarship in 2018 in his honor. The annual $2,500 scholarship is awarded to a local high school senior entering college and majoring in the medical field. Hoffman will be attending Truman State University in the fall, majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology. Steve Lipstein led BJC HealthCare from 1999-2017. With more than 31,000 employees, 15 hospitals and four service organizations, under Lipstein’s leadership BJC became recognized as one of the largest and more successful not-for-profit, integrated health care delivery organizations in the United States.