Southcoast Hospitals Group announces 2009 President's Award winners

Winners are listed in alphabetical order by home town.

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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Southcoast Hospitals Group has announced the recipients of the 2009 Southcoast President's Award for Excellence. Nominated by their co-workers, the President's Award recognizes 12 individuals and one team, for outstanding performance, culture behaviors, and overall quality of services provided.

This year's 12 individuals and the winning team were announced at the combined annual meetings of Southcoast Health System and Southcoast Hospitals Group by Keith A. Hovan, President & CEO of Southcoast Hospitals Group.

"I am honored to continue Southcoast's long tradition of recognizing the dedicated individuals who exemplify the outstanding cultural elements of Southcoast Hospitals Group," Hovan said. "Southcoast is built upon the dedicated service and commitment of more than 6,000 employees, by receiving this award these recipients standout among the best."

All Southcoast employees, including members of leadership and physicians who are employees of Southcoast, are eligible. There is no limit on the number of times an employee can be nominated. Winners are selected on how well they meet the selection criteria that is based on excellent performance and demonstration of our cultural elements and service priorities. There is no pre-assigned number of recipients to each hospital site.

2009 Southcoast President's Award for Excellence winners:
Listed by home town and in alphabetical order

Dartmouth

Nidia Williams, CCC-SLP
Director of Quality Outcomes
Southcoast Hospitals Group

East Falmouth

Michelle Croft, RN, CBN
Bariatric Nurse Coordinator
Tobey Hospital

Fairhaven

Nora King, RN
Atwood 4
Charlton Memorial Hospital

Lakeville

Lisa Pollard, RTR, CT
Operations Coordinator, Radiology
St. Luke's Hospital

Little Compton, R.I.

Stacey Rousseau, PT
Team Leader, Southcoast Rehabilitation Services
Charlton Memorial Hospital

Marstons Mills

Nancy Lo Bue, RN
Intensive Care Unit / Critical Care Unit
Tobey Hospital

New Bedford (2)

Lucelina Andrade, CNA
Nurse Assistant
Tobey Hospital

Theresa Cruz
Food Service Worker
St. Luke's Hospital

North Dartmouth

Armanda Dunn, RN
Team Leader
Southcoast Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care & Infusion Services, Fairhaven

Somerset

Christine Azevedo
Senior Graphic Designer, Marketing & Public Relations
Southcoast Health System

South Dartmouth

Pablo Corral, RT(R), (N)
Nuclear Medicine Technologist
Charlton Memorial Hospital

Tiverton, R.I.

Kristen Anderson, CCC-SLP
Speech/Language Pathologist
Charlton Memorial Hospital

The President's Award "Team Award" was presented to the Health Information Systems Physician Provider Workload Management (PWM) software and E-Sign Training Team. The team was credited with the successful training of all Southcoast physicians on the new state-of-the-art software which significantly improves the way physicians view their list of patients, new test results and documents which require electronic signatures.

The team is comprised of Roberta Aylsworth of Tiverton, R.I., Bettyann Carroll of Lincoln, R.I., Deborah Carvalho of Rochester, Nancy Costa of New Bedford, Elizabeth Faria of Tiverton, R.I., Nicole Figueiredo of Acushnet, Natalie Gomes of North Dartmouth, Elizabeth Price of Wareham, Ermelinda Raposo of Fall River, Jolelynn Saraiva of Fall River and Pamela Sousa of North Dartmouth.