2008 Health
Care Leadership Award Recipients
Donald R. Newkirk Award
| Distinguished Service Award |
Meritorious Service Award
Leadership Through Advocacy Award |
William C. Kelley Safety Leadership Award
David Hendershot Rural Health Promotion Award
| John Chapman Award | Healthcare Consumer Advocacy
Award
Donald R. Newkirk Award
Recognizing an individual or
group for a significant lifetime contribution to the health care field
in Ohio. This is OHA’s highest honor.
This award is presented at the OHA Recognition Dinner, June 9, 2008.
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Retired
President and Chief Executive Officer
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Distinguished
Service Award
Recognizes CEOs or senior
managers of OHA member organizations for their professional attainments
as outstanding manager, leader, mentor, teacher, or service to the
community.
This award is presented at the OHA Recognition Dinner, June 9, 2008.
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E. Dean Beck
Administrator
Fulton County Health Center
Wauseon
For forty years E.
Dean Beck has provided distinguished service and leadership to
Fulton County Health Center. Beck began his career in 1968 as the
hospital accountant/office manager. He became hospital administrator
in 1975. As administrator, he has led the facility through several
changes in providing health care to the residents of Fulton and
surrounding counties. He has guided Fulton County Health Center
through four major expansions including new services, new
facilities, a new nursing home and new technology. Beck served as
past president of Northwest Chapter of Healthcare Finance Management
Association in 1977, served on a variety of board and committee
positions with Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio including past
chairman of the board in 1982, and current nomination committee
chairman. He also served on the OHA Small and Rural Hospital
Committee from 1998-2001. |
Meritorious
Service Award
Recognizes friends of
hospitals or health systems whose support of the industry reflects the
public interest.
This year there are two recipients of the award. This award is presented at the OHA Recognition Dinner,
June 9, 2008.
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Thomas A Saladin, M.D.
Vice President of Academic Affairs
Good Samaritan Hospital
Cincinnati
Dr. Saladin has
been a teacher and a mentor throughout his professional career. He
has influenced generations of physicians through his various
teaching and administrative roles and also continued an active
practice in gastroenterology for over 40 years. After serving his
tour of duty in the army, he returned to Cincinnati and started his
medical practice. Dr. Saladin was the first full-time medicine
department chair at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. He
subsequently served as assistant medical director, medical director
and is currently vice president of academic affairs. Throughout his
career, he has maintained an active teaching role with residents and
medical students and continues to mentor generations of physicians
to provide the best care to the community in Greater Cincinnati. His
dedication, selflessness and commitment to education have inspired
many physicians. |
Leadership Through Advocacy Award
Recognizes an individual,
hospital or health system that demonstrates the ability to effectively
advocate in the legislative and regulatory arenas for the betterment of
Ohio hospitals and the patients and communities they serve.
This award is presented at the OHA Recognition Dinner, June 9, 2008.
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Ohio Organization for Nurse Executives (OONE)
Accepted by Grace Wakulchik
OONE President and Vice President, Patient Services/CNO
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Akron
The Ohio
Organization of Nurse Executives (OONE) has repeatedly worked with
elected officials to build and strengthen relationships and get
action on hospital issues affecting patient care delivery. Most
recently, OONE representatives worked with OHA and the Ohio Nurses
Association to craft common sense legislation addressing nurse
staffing. Over the past year, OONE Board members participated in
numerous conference calls and meetings to provide technical
assistance, answer questions and make recommendations to make the
safe staffing legislation relevant and appropriate for hospitals.
Board members also hosted regional meetings with key state
representatives and provided testimony during hearings in the House
Health Committee. As a result, the bill moved forward and was passed
unanimously out of committee. OONE members continue to write letters
and conduct other grassroots activities to further the bill through
the legislative process. |
William C. Kelley Safety Leadership Award
Recognizing demonstrated leadership in
the field of community, occupational, patient or visitor safety. The
award is named after its first recipient, William C. Kelley, who was
presented the award in 2003.
This award is presented at the OHA Recognition Dinner, June 9, 2008.
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Terry A. Gordon, D.O.
Cardiologist
Akron
General Medical Center
Akron
Dr. Terry A. Gordon
has been a dedicated and caring cardiologist for the past 20 years.
A major success is his work has been with automated external
defibrillators, or AEDs. He led local efforts to put an AED in every
police and sheriff cruiser in Summit County, making the county one
of two in the U.S. so equipped. He then spearheaded efforts to
secure $5 million in state funding for AEDs in all Ohio schools. Dr.
Gordon’s unwavering passion is based on his commitment to save the
lives of our most precious resource—our children. Today, Ohio leads
the nation because more than 3,400 Ohio schools have AEDs and staff
trained to use them. More importantly, 12 lives have been saved. Dr.
Gordon is now focusing on national legislation to place an AED in
every school in the country. |
David
Hendershot Rural Health Promotion Award
Recognizing a small and rural Ohio hospital for providing an exemplary
program or service to advance health and wellness. The award from OHA's
Foundation for Healthy Communities is named
for Field Service Director David Hendershot, whose 26-year OHA career
was marked by personal devotion to Ohio’s small and rural hospitals, and
who died October 5, 2006.
This award is presented at the OHA Annual Meeting Leadership Lunch,
June 11, 2008.
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Dunlap Community Hospital
Accepted by Rod Steiger
President and CEO
Orrville
Dunlap Community Hospital is
a 25 bed critical access hospital in rural Orrville, Ohio. But for a
small hospital, the place is a huge hot-bed of health promotion
leadership and activity, earning wellness awards for its work from
the state of Ohio, a special commendation from the Ohio Senate and
national attention from the Associated Press and national television
networks in 2007. So strongly committed to wellness that it is part
of the hospital’s mission, Dunlap works tirelessly to improve the
health and well-being, and thus the quality of life, of both
employees and community members alike, from seniors and adults, to
families and children in the schools. Dunlap has a genuine passion
for health and wellness and the employees live it every single day! |
John Chapman Award
Honoring
an Ohio hospital that has shown excellence in initiating or supporting
hospital pollution prevention programs. The award is named after John
Chapman, popularly called “Johnny Appleseed, ”who planted thousands of
apple trees across the Midwest during the nineteenth century.
This award is presented at the OHA Annual Meeting Welcome and Keynote
Address, June 9, 2008.
Healthcare Consumer Advocacy
Award
Recognizing an outstanding
individual or organization for a significant impact on the quality of
care for Ohio health care consumers. The award was established in 1999
by the Ohio Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy (OSHCA), an
affiliate society of OHA.
This award is presented at the OHA Recognition Dinner, June 9, 2008.
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Richard A. Paat, M.D., FACP
Past Chief of Staff
St. Luke's Hospital
Maumee
Dr. Richard Paat is
an outstanding leader and advocate for providing medical care for
the indigent. He has led 30 medical missions abroad and is
developing a free mobile medical clinic in Northwest Ohio. He
demonstrates his commitment every day with his patients at his
internal medicine practice. As chief of staff, he was instrumental
in keeping the hospital an affordable option for people in a highly
competitive health care market. Under his leadership, the hospital
introduced its first ever residency program. He also takes medical
students with him on mission trips, where, first hand, he teaches
them to be responsible citizens of the global medical
community. Locally, he also advocates for socio-economically
disadvantaged girls through the Toledo Starlings Volleyball Club. He
provides them the opportunity to learn the game, experience life and
excel. |
2008 OHA Annual Meeting
Columbus Hilton at Easton
Columbus, Ohio
June 9-11, 2008
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