She was born February 8,1938 to Christine and Samual Buss in Watertown, SD. She graduated from Florence High School with honors and went on to graduate from Presentation College of Nursing in 1959.
She married and moved to Seattle, WA in 1962. She began working as an RN at Doctors Hospital and St. Cabrini Hospital in the early days of what would become Critical Care Nursing. She later took a position at Burien General Hospital (later Highline Community Hospital) in 1967 and eventually became The Unit Coordinator of The Coronary Care Unit until her retirement in 2003.
In 1975 she was the recipient of the first “Excellence In Nursing Practice Award” given by the King County Nurses Association. She was loved by her patients, respected by her colleagues one of whom stated “ Never has a patient had less than her best care”.
Deanna taught advanced coronary care classes to her staff educating them on the latest in research, medication and diagnostic procedures being used for their coronary patients.
She was responsible for many innovations in care and did community outreach and taught classes for former patients and their families that had suffered heart attacks. The classes encompassed everything from nutrition, medications and the emotional impact of suffering a coronary. In the late 1970’s she was tapped to give advice and training to an expansion of the Medic 1 program called Medic 4 in the Highline Community. She used to say after training the teams that Seattle was the safest place to have a heart attack.
She loved spending time with her family, was an avid reader and enjoyed long road trips.
She is survived by her devoted husband Bob McIntyre, Daughters Kristi Williams, Lisa Williams-Corr, son-in-law Andre Corr, her wonderful grandson who she adored with all of her heart Quentin Harrison Corr, and her only sister Virginia Vavricka and multiple nieces and nephews.
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