Like many nurses, Rose Beale has possessed a passion for helping others from a young age. That passion has led her from her native Philippines to the operating room at Millcreek Community Hospital.
Influenced by a family who served in medicine, Beale pursued a career in nursing. Fresh out of school, looking to help her family financially and escape the Philippines where, in her words, “life isn’t the easiest,” Beale took a position as an operating room nurse in a military hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was there she met her future husband, Michael, an Erie native serving in the U.S. Army.