Randolph
The association, which has 230 chapters around the world, presents the annual award to volunteers who coordinate and motivate groups of volunteers for fundraising projects that benefit charitable institutions, according to a news release from the hospital.
Margaret Osborn, the auxiliary’s president, traveled with past president Louise Clark, nominating chair Mickie Richardson, and membership chair Anne Pritchard to Portland, Maine, to accept the award at the association’s National Philanthropy Day Luncheon.
“The auxiliary has a long history in this community. It was created and has survived because people recognized the importance of our community hospital,” Osborn said. “We don’t want to lose it.”
Founded in 1906 as the Randolph Sanatorium Ladies Aid Society, the auxiliary’s first recorded donation to Gifford was in 1907 — $300 to fund a “free bed” for one year, and $200 for general financial aid. This year, it contributed the largest gift in Gifford’s history, a $1 million contribution to the Vision of the Future campaign, which supported the creation of a new nursing home, 25 new private inpatient rooms, and a new, modernized birthing center. The money was raised primarily through small-dollar sales of re-purposed items at the volunteer-run Auxiliary Thrift Shop.
In addition to building projects, Auxiliary funds have also supported community projects and services, such as scholarships for high school students pursuing health-related careers, hand-knitted items for area school children and babies born at Gifford Birthing Center, and funding for medical equipment and special hospital department needs.
Norwich
The Norwich-based organization is a specialty practice of New Jersey-based Bayada Home Health Care.
This designation is achieved by physicians whose professional activity is devoted to the practice of hospice and palliative medicine, according to the academy’s website.
Fellows are required to be board certified, members of the academy for five consecutive years and active within the academy.
Saroyan, a scholar with “multiple peer-reviewed publications,” maintains faculty appointments in the Department of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, a news release from Bayada Home Health Care said. Previously he was a full-time faculty member for 10 years at Columbia University, where he was also program director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship.
He is a board certified pediatrician with sub-specialty certification in hospice and palliative medicine, and a certified hospice medical director.
Lebanon
David Quinn, New Hampshire chair for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, presented Osgood with the award in a ceremony earlier this month at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.
The award, given to individual supervisors, reflects efforts made to support citizens serving in the Guard and Reserve through measures such as flexible schedules, time off before and after deployment, caring for families, and leaves of absence, according to a news release from Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
Osgood was nominated by Allison Hirschman, a clinical secretary in General Internal Medicine and a lance corporal in the Marine Corps Reserves Maintenance Company, Detachment 5, in Fort Devens, Mass. Five Dartmouth-Hitchcock employees under Osgood’s supervision have previously served in the Guard and Reserve.
Lebanon
Prior to APD, Mayer held several roles in communications at Dartmouth College’s High Value Healthcare Collaborative.
She had previously served as executive assistant to Dr. James Weinstein, CEO and president of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health.
Mayer holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing management from Syracuse University.
— Compiled by Aimee Caruso