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Meet the 2015 HCA Healthcare Awards of Distinction Recipients
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HCA Healthcare today presented the 2015 HCA Healthcare Awards of Distinction to recipients at a ceremony in Nashville. The HCA Healthcare Awards of Distinction include the Frist Humanitarian Award, the HCA Healthcare Innovators Award and the HCA Healthcare Excellence in Nursing Award, and are the highest honors that HCA Healthcare bestows on employees, physicians and volunteers. This is the first time the company has recognized all three HCA Healthcare Awards of Distinction categories in one celebration.
The Frist Humanitarian Award, the oldest award in HCA Healthcare history, recognizes the highest achievements in serving others; the HCA Healthcare Innovators Award, founded in 2010, recognizes creative new ideas for enhancing quality of care and efficiency; and the HCA Healthcare Excellence in Nursing Award, in its second year, recognizes accomplishments in the field of nursing.
These awards honor exceptional individuals whose work and lives reflect the patient-centered, entrepreneurial and humanitarian values upon which HCA Healthcare was founded.
Meet the recipients in the video vignettes below.
Frist Humanitarian Awards
Physician Recipients
Dr. Peter Sarantos & Dr. Kathy Sarantos | North Florida Regional Medical Center | Gainesville, Florida
Volunteer Recipient
John McClenahan | Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center and Sunrise Children’s Hospital | Las Vegas, Nevada
Employee Recipient
Kimberly Bass | Palms West Hospital | Loxahatchee, Florida
Excellence in Nursing Awards
Compassionate Care Recipient
Alison Jane Marsh | Centerpoint Medical Center | Independence, Missouri
Professional Mentoring Recipient
Jim Kruger | St. Lucie Medical Center | Port St. Lucie, FLorida
Innovators Awards
Service Excellence Recipient
Megan Gallegos, Nurse & Shawn L. Lewis, Clinical Coordinator of Emergency Services
Plaza Medical Center of Fort Worth | Fort Worth, Texas
Quality and Patient Safety Recipient
Tricia Casler, Nurse | St. David’s South Austin Medical Center | Austin, Texas
Financial Impact Recipient
Joanne T. Orlando, Nurse | MountainView Hospital | Las Vegas, Nevada
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As an enterprise, we recognize the significant responsibility we have as a leading healthcare provider within each of the communities we serve, as well as the opportunity we have to improve the lives of the patients for whom we are entrusted to care. Through the compassion, knowledge and skill of our caregivers, and our ability to leverage our scale and innovative capabilities, HCA Healthcare is in a unique position to play a leading role in the transformation of care.
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