Awards and Recognitions: October 2024
11/01/24 at 03:00 AM
Awards and Recognitions: October 2024
Organizations
- Cedar Valley Hospice has received th 2024 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA), which recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world. This is the fifth consecutive year Cedar Valley Hospice has received this honor.
Individuals
- Homecare Homebase announces the 2024 Home Care Aide Scholarship Program Winners: Click here to read short descriptions for each aide. Congratulations!
- Ashley Sutton, Amorem
- Christen Radke, Bethany Hospice & Palliative Care
- LaSondra Reagor, Compassus Hospice and Palliative Care
- Olivia Wilson, Corewell Health South Hospice and Palliative Care
- Ashley Stewart, Genesis Visiting Nurse Association
- Tamia Murray, HomeCare Providers of Cone Health
- Tania Osorio Salgado, Hospice of the Valley
- Nichole Garrett, National Church Residences
- Armani Bethea, Sage Hospice and Palliative Care
- Asia Gren, Samaritan
- Tashianna Spears, Trinity Health at Home Muskegon
- Jashira Robinson, Trinity Loyola Medicine Home Care and Hospice
- Khrystal-Rochelle Franklin, Stillwater Hospice
- Kimora Bailey, Premier Health's Fidelity Health Care
- Yselande Louis, VNA Care
- Dr. Benally Thompson was named Physician of the Year by the Association of American Indian Physicians. The award recognizes his “exemplary leadership and innovation in the field, significantly improving health outcomes and advocating for the well-being of Indigenous communities.” ... From Dr. Thompson, "I became Alaska’s first Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine fellow. Palliative care physicians see people with very serious illnesses, ones they are very likely to die from somewhere in the future. As part of our Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship here at UW, we teach compassion."
- Karen Bullock , PhD, LICSW, was inducted into the National Association of Social Workers Foundation's (NASWF) Social Work Pioneers program. She is the Louise McMahon Ahearn Endowed Professor in the Boston College School of Social Work and in Global Public Health. She has been a leading force in advancing social work education and training in health disparities, health equity, serious illness care, aging and gerontology, hospice, palliative and end-of-life care decision making for the last two decades.