| NEW EMPLOYEES
The following
employees have joined the Otis Health Care Center during the past
four months:
Laura Classey
LPN
Brenda Coolbeth LNA
Allison Cox Administrative Assistant
Martin Coyne, II Heins Home
Sarah Lapan Dietary
Conn Rose LPN
EXEMPLARY
EMPLOYEES RECOGNIZED
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Ann Marie
Perotti (l.), Jane Cyr (r.), and Sandy Westcott are the most
recent Employees of the Month, nominated by their co-workers
and selected by a majority vote of department managers. |
During the past
several months, the following employees have been recognized for
outstanding activities, accomplishments, and leadership that go
beyond standard job requirements:
Sandy Westcott,
Laundry: "Sandy is collaborative and dedicated; she is always
there, no matter what. She's worked in the laundry for 29 years.
She always has a smile, and asks patients if there is anything she
can help them with."
Jane Cyr,
Messenger Valley Pharmacy: "Jane is a compassionate, caring
person. Customers love her for her wit, her caring ways, and her
good listening qualities. Also, because of Jane, the pharmacy has
wonderful decorations for every holiday season."
Ann Marie
Perotti, Heins Home: "In her first managerial role, Ann
Marie has taken Heins Home to new heights. Residents are beaming!
She stresses the individual and the staff follows her lead."
A grateful
patient writes (after a kayaking mishap on the West River):
"Please allow me to say thank you for the outstanding care
I received last Saturday (April 27). "Grace" truly is
evident not only in name but abundant in deed at your hospital facility.
I was welcomed and cared for like a member of a family and not as
a stranger. If
my experience at Grace Cottage could be reproduced throughout the
country our health care system would be the envy of the world."
Paul Higginson, Litchfield, CT
VERMONT'S EMS
EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR
Just
a few months after receiving the Townshend Business Association's
Person of the Year 2001 award, Grace Cottage's Bock EMS Training Center
Director Mark Onyon has been presented with another accolade. At the
14th Annual EMS Banquet in Burlington in April, Mark was asked to
step up to the podium to accept Vermont's EMS Educator of the Year
Award, presented by the Vermont Department of Health, Office of Emergency
Medical Services. "I'd been teaching an all-day EMS class in
Townshend," laughed Mark, "and the last thing I wanted to
do was drive five hours round trip to Burlington for the banquet on
that Saturday night in April. When I called to cancel, they wouldn't
let me - and when I went up there and they announced my name for the
award, I knew why they were being so difficult!" MOVING
UP
Mark
Malloy, RN, has been named Long Term Care Nurse Manager. Mark will
provide nursing overview and supervision of nursing at Stratton
House, Heins Home, and the Townshend Adult Activity Center.
DETECTION
OF HEART FAILURE
Grace
Cottage now performs the Triage BNP test, the first blood test to
be cleared by the Food and Drug Administration as an aid in the
diagnosis of heart failure. The test, which requires just six drops
of blood, assesses a patient's status by measuring a protein marker.
"We were the first hospital in the state of Vermont to acquire
this new technology, and we've used it repeatedly," said Dr.
Moss Linder. "The results of the one-step test are available
in fifteen minutes." The test is used on patients who arrive
at the emergency room or their physician's office experiencing symptoms
associated with congestive heart failure.
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