Awards and Recognitions: September 2024

Awards and Recognitions: September 2024 
We congratulate these honorees and celebrate their contributions to our collective hospice and palliative care mission, vision, and compassionate care throughout our world. Do you know any of these leaders? We encourage you to forward this to them or to find another way to celebrate their success. 

Organizations

• Ogeechee Area Hospice earns Platinum Safety Award from the Georgia Hospital Association Workers’ Compensation Self-Insurance Fund in recognition of “their superior accident experience in calendar year 2023.” “Ogeechee Area Hospice did an excellent job of achieving low accident frequency and severity,” the Association said in a release. “Claims were handled in a timely and efficient manner. We congratulate you and all the staff members on your excellent results. We’re very proud of their achievement.”
  
  

Individuals  

• Karen Bullock, the Louise McMahon Ahearn Endowed Professor in the Boston College School of Social Work and in Global Public Health and an acclaimed researcher in health-related equity and inclusion issues, has been named a Social Work Pioneer by the National Association of Social Workers Foundation.  She champions a meaningful role for social work in the area of hospice and palliative care—now known as serious illness care—because of the specialized skill set and expertise it intersects with those of physicians, nurses, and allied health clinicians on primary care teams.

•  Jennifer Cheney, a nursing assistant in the Community Living Center at the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center, on Monday accepted the national Own the Moment Patient Experience award at the Customer Experience Award Ceremony in Washington D.C. Cheney was nominated for the award for her efforts to support a veteran and his wife [in hospice care] during a critical period.