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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 hundred 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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