About

Blog author Christine Hammerlund is a registered nurse and the owner of Assured Healthcare, a healthcare staffing service headquartered in Gurnee, Illinois. The company provides private duty home care as well as a full range of healthcare staffing solutions to customers throughout northeastern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.

Since she was very young, Christine has been interested in the fields of healthcare and healing. By the time she was twelve years old she knew she was going to become a nurse, and even then had a strong affinity for helping older people in need of care and assistance. Her first vocation was as a home health nurse, working with the elderly and infirm. Her career path then took many interesting turns, culminating in her position as director of a successful professional staffing operation with annual sales exceeding $20 million dollars. Upon leaving that position, she established Assured Healthcare in 2006, as a means of carrying on the legacy of service, education and entrepreneurism her own mentors had shared with and instilled in her as her career progressed.

This blog was developed as a means to share healthcare-related resources, anecdotes and general information about the healthcare industry, its vocations, and the dedicated people who have chosen to pursue it as a profession.