By Rebecca Bell
Dean of Community Relations & Special Events
Midland College
Suzanne Wilson Collins, R.N., was 18 years old when her first son was born with a bilateral cleft lip palate, which is a hole between the oral and nasal cavities. The young mother found herself in and out of hospitals and surgical units beginning when her son was just one month old. Twenty-four years and thirty-one surgeries later, Collins said that God definitely has a plan for everyone, and His plan for her centers around helping and caring for those in need.
As a young girl, Collins and her sister were removed from an extremely unstable family situation and placed in a foster home with an older couple, who eventually adopted them. Once she and her sister were in a loving environment, Collins said her childhood and teen years were normal. She participated in school sports (basketball, tennis and softball) and graduated from Odessa High School. Collins married, moved to Midland, had two more children. In 1997 she began working as an office manager for a home healthcare agency.
“Somehow my life just always has gone in the direction of healthcare,” said Collins. “Working in the healthcare field made me realize that I wanted to be a nurse, so when my youngest son was in kindergarten, I decided to enroll at Midland College and began taking prerequisites for the associate degree nursing program.”
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