Nursing Excellence Awards Winners

(from left) Jessie Vallasin (Home Health), John Robertson (Progressive Care Unit), Catherine Bellusci (Emergency Dept), Melissa Chasan (Postpartum Care), Lenore Apigo (MedSurg), Laura Higgins (Acute Rehabilitation Unit), Celia Harper (Home Health & Hospice), Jordan Kamal (Critical Care) and Cindy Mizell (Clinical Informatics).

Front row, from left:  Linda Surace (Surgery), Joyce Avery (Home Health), Suzanne Knaus (Hospice), Katayoon (Kathy) Ansari (Ortho, Spine & Neuro), Jeri Lee (Progressive Care Unit), Marta Grapensteter (CCU), Mary Grobman (Breast Center) and Heather Yang (Ortho, Spine & Neuro).  Back row, from left:  CEO Bob Malte, Senior VP/Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jeff Tomlin, VP/Chief Nursing Officer Cheryl Nail and Senior VP/Chief Operating Officer Neil Johnson.  Not pictured are  Cheryl Patterson (Evergreen Healthline), Valerie Clayton (NICU) and Joanna Minetti (ED).

Pictured with CEO Bob Malte, from left: Lindsay Dulin (MedSurg), Sandra Kreider (CCU), Diann Bagley (Construction Management), Susan Hanser (MedSurg), Wilma Sameshima (Breast Center), Dixie Wyckoff-Raney (Surgical Services), Anne Kinnaman (Cardiovascular Services), VP of Nursing Cheryl Nail, Senior VP of Patient Services Mary Jim Montgomery, Corinna Cunningham (Hospice). Not pictured are Pat Gilosa-DeAngelis (Evergreen Healthline) and Karen Ketner (Comprehensive Procedures).

Pictured with CEO Steve Brown, from left: Faith Uyesugi (Innovation/Creativity), Sarah Smith (Patient Advocacy), Cheryl Magnusson (Education), Joan Glenn (Clinical Care), Cheryl Nail (Leadership), Kathy Myers (Mentoring) and Michelle Sweeney (Rising Star).