The NHS Northstar Blog

DSP Appreciation Week! What a great time to say THANK YOU to our Amazing Direct Care Workers!!! Congratulations to the Day 1 winners of the random drawing for prizes: Tommy Thompson, DSP with Community Services in Grand Rapids, won the drawing for a Pizza Oven Stephanie Wudinich, DSP at Evans in Virginia, won the drawing for a Wireless Speaker We will be in contact with the winners to coordinate delivery of the prizes! Have a great week!!

We wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU to our incredible Direct Support Professionals (and all our direct care workers) during National DSP Appreciation Week 2025. We as a company are nothing without you, your hard work and dedication to impacting and changing the lives of the individuals we support. As a small token of our appreciation, each day this week (Monday-Friday), we will be randomly drawing the names of 2 direct care workers (10 in total) who will receive various prizes ranging from a TV to a Pizza Oven to a themed basket. The winners and their prizes will be announced on this blog. The Directors will also be stopping by each of our homes and offices [...]

NHS Northstar wants to celebrate our staffs' milestones, whether they have worked here for 12 years, or they just started! We would like to recognize the following employee anniversaries and their years of service: September Anniversaries Shannon Saari, Jones - 12 years Mary Bartos, Linden - 12 years Tracy Duffney, Hibbing Community - 8 years Karin Lindmark, Accounting - 4 years Abbie Moberg-Maki, Hibbing Community - 3 years Cassandra Mettler, Quest - 3 years Dakotah Zbacnik, Maintenance - 3 years Cheyenne Nichols, Health Services - 2 years Madison Walters, Kingston - 2 years Laura Berg, Crescent - 2 years Okhui Butala, Deerfield - 2 years Leah Carls, Keewatin - 2 years Rena Cashman, [...]