Healthcare Hero – Dakota Traxler

Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. Meet one of Jefferson County's very own healthcare workers, Dakota Traxler! Traxler is a Registered Nurse (RN) who works for the Florida Department of Health Medical Foster Care System. For the Monticello-native Traxler, healthcare was always one of those things that just seemed to make sense. Medical learning came naturally to her, and it was a subject she found particularly interesting, so she was attracted to the field. “I know it sounds typical,” she says, “but it was also that helping people has always inspired me. I've always wanted to help people. I also really liked working with kids; I did daycare, babysitting, after-school care, ot