United Way of CMC Welcomes Loreen Comstock to the Staff!

Loreen began working with the United Way in August. In her position, she will provide education to the community on such topics as Naloxone for businesses/community partners and Medication Safety for the Elderly, community outreach initiatives, and community engagement activities.

Loreen is a master’s prepared registered nurse who graduated from Geisinger Medical Center School of Nursing with a diploma, Bloomsburg State College with a BSN, and Bloomsburg University with an MSN. Her past positions include critical care staff nurse, instructor at Geisinger Medical Center School of Nursing (evening program), Assistant Director of Nursing at Bloomsburg Hospital, and Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Williamsport Hospital. For 30 years she worked in the community with home health and hospice—starting with Columbia Montour Home Health & Hospice and later with Geisinger Home Health and Hospice after a merger. For 20 of her 30 years in home health and hospice, she also managed the Nurse-Family Partnership, a program for first-time mothers and their babies. Loreen collaborated with Eric Dewald (former Executive Director of the Central Susquehanna Community Foundation) to write the first grant application to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency which brought the program to a 4-county area. Ongoing funding and expansion over that 20-year period allow for service to 8-counties with a total capacity of 292 first-time mothers.

From 2019-2021, Loreen served as program manager for Free2BMom, a program for pregnant/parenting moms with opioid use disorder/substance use disorder and their babies. Loreen is known in the community for her grant writing abilities and her involvement. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the Columbia-Montour Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the National Board of Review for the Community Health Accreditation Program. Loreen lives in Bloomsburg with her husband Dan and has 3 grown children and 7 grandchildren.