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Tim Hanson 2007 Recipient Of The Jane Gardner Award

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Tuesday December 18, 2007

by Deborah Foster

  Addison County Home Health and Hospice announced that Tim Hanson of Ripton was the 2007 recipient of the Jane Gardner award for clinical excellence.  Three new board members were also elected at the annual meeting and recognition night held recently at the Vergennes Opera House.

    “It gives me enormous pleasure to be able to present this years' Jane Gardner Award” said Michele Hadeka, RN, Quality Assurance Coordinator at the agency. The clinical staff recognizes the vital role Tim plays in providing coverage and clinical visits with patients of every age,” said Hadeka, in making the presentation to Hanson who has been a nurse with the agency for 25 years and coordinating weekend patient care for the local home health agency for the last seven years. Hadaka noted in her remarks that Tim Hanson had been her student during her first year as an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Vermont.

   The Jane Gardner Award is named for Jane Gardner, a Community Health Nurse and Health Educator who died in 2003. The recipient of the Jane Gardner Award for clinical excellence exemplifies the unique and outstanding qualities the clinician consistently integrates into professional practice. These qualities are; integrity, caring, compassion, creativity in teaching patients and families, and the willingness to persevere in challenging situations, and the belief that each individual has intrinsic value.

   Barbara Gevry & Heather Davio were co-recipients' of the the 2007 Mary Ellen Burpee Award for excellence, chosen by the clinical staff of the agency and given to a home health aide who most exemplifies the unique and outstanding qualities necessary of a home health aide. The Burpee Award is made in memory of Mary Ellen Burpee of Cornwall, who died in 2003 and was with the agency for seven years.  The Award is the highest recognition that can be achieved by a Licensed Nurses Aide at the agency.  Claire Audet, last year's recipient presented the Award with Rita Baccei RN and Team Leader. “All of our home health aides are extremely valuable, contributing members of the home health care team,”  said Baccei.  

   Each year Addison County Home Health and Hospice recognizes outstanding achievement and dedication by staff members serving the Addison County community. This year sixteen staff members were recognized.
Charlene Remick, Physical Therapist and Tim Hanson RN were recognized for twenty-five years with the agency; Fifteen years: Brenda Owen; Ten years: Paige Gallo, Jane Kearns, RN,  Joan Audet, Mary Emmons, Helen Putnam; Five years: Judy Bragg RN, Stephanie Stoddard, RN;  Barbara Beatty, Physical Therapist; Cathy Desjadon, Jill Derosa, Snezana Sujic, Jeannettee McCormick, Karen Larrow.

   Three new board members began their terms of office they are: Bridport resident, Louise Sandberg; Bristol resident, Elizabeth Farr and Monkton resident Helen Bowers. Addison County Home Health and Hospice has been providing home health care to children and adults referred by their physicians for the past thirty-nine years.
  

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