Scenes from the 2023 Healthcare Heroes Event
Images from the Thursday, October 26 Celebration
Thank you to our presenting sponsors:
Elms College and Baystate Health/Health New England,
and partner sponsors:
Holyoke Medical Center, Mercy Medical Center/Trinity Health, and the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation and the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass Amherst
To order prints go to Leah Martin Photography
Overall, everyone who was nominated this year is a hero, but in the minds of our judges — the editors and management at BusinessWest — eight of these stories stood out among the others. The Healthcare Heroes for 2023 are
(click on each name to read their story):
Lifetime Achievement:
Jody O’Brien,
Urology Group of
Western New England
Health Education:
Kristina Hallett,
Bay Path University
Healthcare Administration:
Dr. Mark Kenton,
Mercy Medical Center
Emerging Leader:
Ashley LeBlanc,
Mercy Medical Center
Emerging Leader:
Ellen Ingraham-Shaw,
Baystate Medical Center
Patient Care Provider:
Julie Lefer Quick,
VA of Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System
Innovation in
Health/Wellness:
Gabriel Mokwuah
and Joel Brito,
Holyoke Medical Center
Presenting Sponsors
Partner Sponsors
