HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY NAMES NURSING ASSISTANT OF THE YEAR IN FIVE CATEGORIES

June 28, 2010

Press Contact:          Elyse Thierry                                                 

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HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY NAMES NURSING ASSISTANT OF THE YEAR IN FIVE CATEGORIES

Charlottesville, VA (June 15, 2010)  —- “Helping People –- Touching Lives” was the theme for 250 nursing assistants and their supporters at the 13^th Annual Nursing Assistant Recognition on the evening of  June 15.

Highlighting this year’s program will be the presentation of Nursing Assistant of the Year awards in five categories: Acute Care, Long-Term Care, Assisted Living, Home Health/Community Care and Companion/Sitter.  

Nominees and winners were:

Acute Care: 

Winner: Barbara Wright, Martha Jefferson Hospital (MJH) [photo]

Nominees:

• Rebecca Allen, University Of Virginia Hospital (UVa), 6 Central
• Phyllis Bressan, UVa, Short Stay, 4 West
• Kathy Howell, UVa, 4 Central
• Massa Kolle, UVa, 3 East
• Susan Lilly, UVa, PICU
• Nicole McNabb, MJH, TCU

Assisted Living Care: 

Winner: Tonya Taylor, Our Lady of Peace [photo]

Nominees:

• Alicia Beccera, Mountainside Senior Living
• Donna Faulknier, Westminster Canterbury of the Blue Ridge
• Christine Johnson, Rosewood Village Innovations Unit

Community Care/Home Health: 

Winner: Thelma Jackson, Continuum Home Health Care [photo]

Nominees:

• Joyce Randolph, Care Advantage Plus
• Julia Smith, Home Instead Senior Care

Companion Care: 

Winner: Suzanne Turner, Home Instead Senior Care [photo]

Nominee:

• Wanda Carter, Care Advantage Plus

Nursing Home Care: 

Winner: Joyce Bates, Golden Living, The Cedars [photo]

Nominees:

• Sheila Faulkner, Trinity Mission of Charlottesville
• Megan Feggans, Charlottesville Health & Rehab
• Carolyn Lyons, Lovingston Healthcare Center
• Dani Neeley, Westminster Canterbury of the Blue Ridge

Winners were selected by a subcommittee of JABA’s Ethics Committee, using an anonymous and blinded process.

Volunteering their time and talents to make the evening one to remember were: guest speaker Minister Savola “Butter” Monroe, BSN, M.Div; the master of ceremonies Peggy Scott, RN; Just Us, a group of eight singers from Fluvanna; and the event committee: JoDean Chisholm, Cheryl Cooper, Denise Barth, Beth Hochstetler, Marian Lawson and Jeff Moscicki. For the second year, the event was held at the Holiday Inn University Area, which donated half of the evening’s cost.

Co-sponsors with JABA for this year’s event were:

• Care Advantage Plus
• Charlottesville Health and Rehabilitation
• Golden Living – The Cedars
• Home Instead Senior Care
• Louisa Health Care Center
• Legacy Hospice
• Martha Jefferson Hospital
• Mountainside Senior Living
• Our Lady of Peace
• Rosewood Village
• Rosewood Village Hollymead
• The Laurels of Charlottesville
• Trinity Mission
• UVa Health Services
• UVA Health Services Foundation
• Westminster Canterbury of the Blue Ridge

For more information on this event or JABA, as well as answers to the full range of aging related questions, contact JABA at (434) 817-5222 or visit the Web site www.jabacares.org.

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JABA (the Jefferson Area Board for Aging) serves the city of Charlottesville, and the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa and Nelson. JABA cares about all aspects of senior and intergenerational welfare. The nonprofit organization works to promote, establish and preserve sustainable communities for healthy aging that benefit individuals and families of all ages.

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