We’re excited to announce the new leadership in our Nursing Department here at St. Anne’s!
Our new Director of Nursing is Mandy Brownell, who has worked as a nurse at St. Anne’s for almost ten years. She graduated from Northland Community and Technical College (NCTC) in 2010. She was born and raised in Grand Forks.
She worked at Valley Senior Living for two years, before moving on to serve as a nurse at the Psych. Hospital for three. Her first years of nursing provided excellent experience and background for her which she brought when she came to St. Anne’s. Her experience working with patients struggling with mental health piqued her interest in the Nursing specialty of Psychiatry.
Her years of experience providing medication and treatment services, among other things, to our residents at St. Anne’s has given her an excellent grounding for her new role as our D.O.N. Not only does she have extensive nursing knowledge, but she also has a heart for people and good common sense.
Mandy has five children, including her stepdaughter. Her oldest is nineteen and out on her own. She has her fifteen-year-old and sixteen-year-old daughters at home, as well as her ten-year-old twin boys. She and her husband bought their home in 2021.
She also has three dogs: a Havanese who is six and two younger Boston Terriers. She has great affection for all of them, despite their propensity for being naughty and mischievous.
Due to restructuring in our Nursing Department, we now have an RN Consultant, and are happy to introduce Krystle Hansen who will be filling this role for us!
Krystle was born and raised in Fairfield, CA.
She moved to the Great Plains of North Dakota in 2014 and married her husband, Tom, a native of Grand Forks, one year later. When deciding where to settle to raise their family, Tom suggested they choose somewhere between where they both grew up, and they ended up in Bismarck, ND.
Over her 13 years of nursing, Krystle has cared for patients as small as 780 grams and as young as 24 weeks old in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, as well as former soldiers at the spry age of 98. She was honorably discharged in December 2024 as a Captain in the North Dakota Army National Guard, having served first as a Combat Medic and later as a Registered Nurse.
Krystle is excited to join Saint Anne’s Guest Home and be the hands and feet of Jesus to others.
We thank these wonderful women for accepting these new roles!
