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A Salute to the
Healthcare LHeroes of 2020
ast month, BusinessWest and the Healthcare News staged their annual celebration of the Healthcare Heroes, a recognition program launched by the two publications in 2017. This was a
virtual celebration because of the pandemic, but the class of 2020, all recognized for work they did during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly a year ago, were celebrated in style. More than 200 people took in the virtual celebration on Jan. 14, and several hun- dred more have viewed it since. The virtual program featured videos of and welcoming remarks from the event’s presenting sponsors, Elms College and Baystate Health/Health New England; poignant introductions of the honorees; and compelling remarks from those honorees, who are:
• The staff at HOLYOKE MEDICAL CENTER;
• DR. MARK KEROACK, president and CEO of Baystate Health;
• CHRISTOPHER SAVINO, EMELINE BEAN, AND LYDIA BRISSON, clinical liaisons for Berkshire Healthcare Systems;
• FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS;
• THE NUTRITION DEPARTMENT AT GREATER SPRINGFIELD
SENIOR SERVICES INC.;
• THE INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES AT UMASS
AMHERST;
• RABBI DEVORAH JACOBSON, director of Spiritual Life at JGS
Lifecare;
• MAGGIE EBOSO, Infection Control and Prevention coordinator at Mercy Medical Center;
• JENNIFER GRAHAM, home health aide at O’Connell Care at Home; and
• HELEN GOBEIL, staffing supervisor at Visiting Angels West Springfield.
Other sponsors of the 2020 Healthcare Heroes celebration are Bulkley Richardson and Trinity Health Of New England/Mercy Medical Center.
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