Celebrating Gbmc’Instant Well-Most Compassionate Caregivers

The GBMC Healthcare System is working toward our vision of treating everyone, every quaternary dimension the way that we would want our ain loved ones treated. We remind each other that at that place are four components of the tending that we desire for our family unit members:

1. Better wellness: the best possible wellness upshot;
two. Better tending: the best possible satisfaction with the means the attending is delivered;
iii. Lower cost: with the to the lowest grade waste material product affair of money, effort, too fourth dimension;
4. And with the most joy for those providing the tending.

But as I reflect on our quadruple or 4 part aim, the i that the patient has the easiest 4th dimension judging is the improve tending aim.

Patients cannot easily tell if nosotros accept made the correct aid decisions. They don’t know if we bring ordered the right tests, they tin tin can’t state if they got amend because of our therapies or inward spite of them. Our patients don’t ofttimes know if we have got got wasted their money or fourth dimension. And ofttimes we don’t demo them our joy inwards existence able to assistance them.

But our patients tin readily appreciate kindness. They know a grinning from a distracted grip off. They know if someone is rushing through an explanation or if the clinician truly cares to encounter that the patient has understood. Our patients know when we are actually listening too showing empathy as opposed to going through a checklist with no quaternary dimension for existent agreement.

Our раtіеntѕ knоw whеn а аіd рrоvіdеr іѕ соmраѕѕіоnаtе.

Lіndа Kеllу wіth hеr hоnоr.

And that’s why, 1 time a yr the GBMC family unit formally celebrates those who are the exemplars of compassion - those people who are closer to perfection inwards treating others similar they love them l-50 if they have got simply met them. I had the privilege of recognizing these wonderful individuals at this yr’sec Cоmраѕѕіоnаtе Cаrеgіvеr’ѕесоnd Awаrd ceremony together with to abide past Lіndа Kеllу, RN, FNE-A, SANE-A, Clinical Program Manager of the Sexual Assault Forensic Examination (SAFE) Program, who was awarded with GBMC’sec Nancy J. Petrarca Compassionate Caregiver Award on June v.

Linda really embodies the vision of our healthcare organization with her dedication to caring for the victims of abuse as if they were her ain loved ones. She received a number of nomination letters on her behalf that praised her non solitary for the compassionate tending inward add together-on to extraordinary commitment to victims of sexual abuse together with domestic violence, but also for her dedication to educating immature people inward the community nearly sexual inwards add-on to domestic violence. The nomination letters were extraordinarily touching in add-on to each 1 cited i item patient – a victim of severe torture too abuse whose life was ultimately saved because Linda went to a higher place as good as beyond to render her with loving assist together with to seek estimate for the abuse she endured.

I also congratulate as practiced as give cheers all of those individuals nominated for this yr’s Compassionate Caregiver Award including:

Hоnоrаblе mеntіоn fіnаlіѕtѕ:
Donna Thomas, Patient Access
Nancy Shackelford, RN, General Operating Room
Harold Goll, MD, Anesthesiology
Gabrielle Whalen, RN, Pediatric ED

Nоmіnееѕ:
LaChond Alston - Gilchrist Hospice Care
Daniel Blue, RT - Respiratory Care, NICU
Jaime Clark - Wound Care Center
Lynne DeLancey, LCSW-C - Greater Baltimore Cleft Lip as expert as Palate Team
Lois Fitzgerald - Gilchrist Hospice Care
Melissa Frey, RN - Bariatric Surgery
Mike Lohnes - Physical Therapy, Joint & Spine Center
Modesty Lyles - Gilchrist Hospice Care
Diane Moniuszko - Core Clinical Laboratory, Gilchrist Volunteer
Cate O'Connor-Devlin, RN - Nursing Administration
Patricia Schoenleber – Gilchrist Hospice Care
Renu Thomas, medico - Hospitalist, Medical Residency
Claudia Williams, RN – NICU
Rita Yow - Gilchrist Hospice Care
Mary Zappala - Gilchrist Volunteer


It is hard to demo compassion e'er. Everyone shows compassion at times. I count myself among those who call back to live compassionate but are as well task-oriented. The people that I await upwards to are the ones that get the slice of piece of work done, but good-nigh never neglect to demonstrate that they larn it - that they are dealing with some other human beingness inward demand together with not exactly completing another chore.

We are fortunate that inward the GBMC family unit of measurement unit of measurement of mensuration we are surrounded past caregivers who inspire us and remind us of the innate goodness in people.