KP Employees Help Reunite Long-Lost Brothers

Maryann Smith, RN, has heard all sorts of stories in her six years working in an outpatient skin cancer surgery clinic at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael.

Patients receive treatment over the entire day at the Mohs Surgery Clinic, sometimes for as long as 12 hours, so there’s plenty of opportunity to talk.

While moved by many people’s stories, she was motivated to take action after hearing about Frank Holland’s life.

Over the course of that day in April, he told her about his rough childhood, some of it spent in an orphanage, and that he had no family. His wife died eight years ago, and they didn’t have children.