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The
Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey held its signature Humanism in Healthcare Awards
Ceremony on Monday, July 21, at the Hamilton Park Conference Center, in Florham
Park.
Now in
its 11th year, the Humanism Awards program recognizes
individuals in the trenches of patient care who have consistently
demonstrated the principles of caring and compassion in their work in
hospitals and in nursing education programs in the Essex, Union and Morris region served by The
Foundation. This year, 36 individuals from 16
institutions received awards of $500 each.
“These are individuals – who may be in food service,
technicians, in housekeeping, therapists, nurse managers, physicians,
along with nursing students and faculty – who each day practice caring as much as they provide
skilled care,” noted
Executive Director Robert Hyfler.
Theresa M. Redling, D.O., F.A.C.P., and
Hospice Medical Director at Newark
Beth
Israel
Medical Center
, received The Foundation’s 2008 Community Humanism in
Healthcare Award. She also heads the hospital’s prestigious Center
for Geriatric Health Care.
(Left to right) HFNJ Board Chair Lester
Lieberman, with Dr. Theresa Redling and HFNJ First Vice Chair Beth
Levithan.
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UMDNJ
President Dr. William F. Owen, Jr., M.D., was this year’s keynote
speaker. Dr. Owen, who was inaugurated at the University on July 1,
2007, spoke about humanistic care from his perspective
as leader of the nation’s largest stand-alone health sciences
university. Dr. Owen also discussed care from the patient
perspective after his brief hospitalization at University
Hospital following
a mild stroke.
Congratulations to these caring and
compassionate healthcare professionals!
2008 HUMANISM IN HEALTHCARE
AWARDEES
Bloomfield College Presbyterian
Division of Nursing Ajay Kapoor Stephanie Konrad Neddie V.
Serra
Broadway
House for Continuing Care Jernell Barbour Beverly
Salley
Children’s
Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Sonia
Banaag Twanda Brown
Clara Maass
Continuing Care Center at Belleville Andrea Small Belinda
Smith
Clara Maass
Medical Center Tom K. Jose Herminia Malgapo
Daughters
of Israel Evelyne Charles Susan Jurado
Morristown
Memorial Hospital Kristen Luttenberger Renee
Trambert
New
Community Corporation Nora Branch Denise Dent Barbara
O’Connor
Newark Beth
Israel Medical Center Marc Borenstein Mattie
Cohen
Overlook
Hospital Jeanne Kerwin Wendy Poucher-Catalano
Saint
Barnabas Medical Center Margie Heller Linda
Santos
Seton
Hall University – College of Nursing Gloria Essoka Larry
Payano Adrienne Sumallo
Trinitas
Hospital Veronica Flores Diane Reehil
Trinitas
Hospital School of Nursing Sandra Fonseca Karen Joho Kelly
Switzer
UMDNJ -
School of Nursing Oladeji Babalola Michelle Kaulback Susan
Pepe
UMDNJ –
University Hospital Linda McGinnis
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