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An electronic newsletter for our employees and friends • Available at www.irmc.cc, under ‘Staff Tools’

VOLUME 7 | NUMBER 9 | May 21 2015

Ten IRMC employees received Clinical Excellence Awards at ceremonies May 8 during National Nurses Week. The 17th annual awards were made possible by an endowment to the Indian River Medical Center Foundation from The Laraja Foundation, Inc. of Montclair, N.J., and Vero Beach. The awards acknowledge “professional commitment, teamwork, clinical expertise and positive communication skills.”

IRMC President/CEO Jeff Susi; IRMC board members Dr. Wayne Hockmeyer and Gerri Smith; Dr. Richard Milsten of the IRMC Foundation board; and special guests were on hand to congratulate winners and give out certificates, awards and checks. Lynn Hubbard, VP/Patient Care and chief nursing officer, announced this year’s award recipients.

“We would like to thank the large

number of family members and loved ones for attending, making the event even more special to the winners,” said Myra Burns, administrator of the awards, and Development officer, Foundation.

Winners are Jon-Alan Ames, Pharma-cist; Deidra Ausby, office coordinator, Food and Nutrition; Karen Demars, RN, Surgery; Jerren Faucheux, RN, BSN, SICU/MICU education coordinator; Sally Hays, Hand and Occupational therapist; Jessica Helmer, RN, Behavioral Health Center; Tom Kavanagh, RN, Oncology; Jessica Tabuga, RN, ICC; Kasey Whelan, RN, Surgical/Post-OP; and Donald Willems, RN, ICC.

Each of the following nominees is to be congratulated for his or her outstanding effort and dedication to our patients at Indian River Medical Center:

Cindy BakerCharlene BibbsRyan BolickRene BompartitoStephanie BrandesLea Ann BrownEleanor CandidoHeidi Empey

Shane FoleyMonique FrancoJudy GriffithBarry HurleyMilan JohnsonLeslie LafountainPhyllis LandryHeather Lowther

David LurryLaurel MaddoxMichelle McDonaldJenny McGuireOutpatient Endoscopy DepartmentKaryn PattonBob Piper

Outpatient Rehabilitation DepartmentBeth ShoaffWendy TaylorLauren ThomasKatie Van GelderEmily Zambito

Awards Mark 17 Years of Clinical Excellence

First row, seated, left to right: Tom Kavanagh, Kasey Whelan, Karen Demars and Donald Willems. Second row, left to right: Dr. Richard Milsten, Myra Burns, Deidra Ausby, Jessica Helmer, Dr. Wayne Hockmeyer, Sally Hays, Jerren Faucheux and daughter, Jessica Tabuga, Gerri Smith and Jeff Susi. Jon-Alan Ames was not present.

Did You Notice?Did you notice the new look and feel

to www.IRMC.cc? IRMC launched its new website for the community last week.

And did you know the “EVENTS” section is a great place to tell the community what’s going on? From support groups to education seminars, and more. If there are events—from one-time events such as blood drives, to repeating events such as maternity tours— we want to tell the public. One great feature is all the events are easy to share on social media and to add to calendars as invites.

Send the following items to marketing@irmc.cc and they can be posted on the new IRMC website. Please include:

• Event name • Topic• Date• Time• Cost• Location• Contact name and email address• A short description

Town Hall Meeting Just A Click Away

If you missed one of the employee Town Halls earlier this month, no worries— we recorded a session. Just click the link in red on the home page of the Intranet to watch the video. Winners of the free PTO days will be drawn soon and questions from the Town Hall meetings will be posted on the Intranet.

Remember: Wash Your Hands!

Special Thanks to the IRMC Team for helping make this years’ May Pops such a success!

ACS’s Relay for Life a Celebration of Life

Hospital Week 2015 Scores!

Every year come May, the Foundation looks to the IRMC team of employees and Auxilians to help fill more than 150 volunteer positions that are needed to make the May Pops fundraising event a success. Volunteers assist with everything from mailings and set-up prior to the event to manning the admission gates, serving as greeters, concierge attendants, ice cream servers, courtesy transportation shuttle, media escorts, trash removal services during the event, and breakdown and clean-up after the event and so much more. The IRMC Team stepped up once again this year — we couldn’t have done it without you! Many thanks from the Foundation!

Forty IRMC team members and volunteers helped make the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life on the Beaches a great success earlier this month. The team—more than double last year’s size—met its fundraising goal and made quite a splash with its “Under the C” team tent. So much so that the Scully Welsh Cancer Center won first place for our booth!

Many thanks go to all of you who supported the relay this year. Through your

Hospital Week 2015 was eventful this year, with employees enjoying an ice cream social, special thank you meals, a compli-mentary IRMC folding chair, a walk-a-thon competition and employee/physician softball game.

Congrats go to the physicians who won this year’s softball game and to all 14 departments that participated in the walk-a-thon. First place went to Food and Nutrition Services (pictured) with 811,721 steps. Second place went to Engineering with 510,374 steps and third place went to Partners

in Women’s Health with 468,113 steps. Honorable mention went to William Ludwig in the Cath Lab who logged 96,460 steps on his own.

Thank you to the Pride Team Committee for making the week unforgettable!

From left: Daiana Miller, Jennifer Vinson, Aprill Baker and Linda Williamson.

Aprill BakerMichelle Bollinger

Scott DuncanRick and Frances

HerndonColleen King

Kim Leach-WrightSteve Massey

Michelle Matheson Vicky McLain

Lori McCormick

Evelyn McCoskerKaitlynn McDonald

Daiana MillerDr. Wanda K. North

Julie Orben Ed Quigley

Richard RoozenDanielle Sapienza

Teri Tedesco Linda Williamson

From left: Lori McCormick, Michelle Bollinger and Wanda Kay North.

commitment and generosity we raised over $3,679 through our Bake Sale and Burger Day for the American Cancer Society.