More than 50 individuals and organizations across Kentucky and southern Indiana are represented in this year’s MediStar Award nominees.
First-time nominees Kentucky Homeplace, Lucina Health and Inscope Medical join past nominees such as MD2U and Family Community Clinic. Past MediStar Award winners, Signature HealthCare, Nazareth Home and Owensboro Health, round out the nominations. Nominees are:
The A.O. Sullivan Award for Excellence in Education
Health Enterprises Network
TechSolve
The eQuality Project, University of Louisville
The Friedell Committee for Health Transformation
Turnpike Partnership
UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health
The Hall Render Leadership in Healthcare Award
Patrick Bray, Bluegrass Doctors of Physical Therapy
Mike Gough, Norton Healthcare
Mary Haynes, Nazareth Home
Andrew Henderson, MD, Lexington Clinic
Mike Muldoon, Health Enterprises Network
Mark Slaughter, MD, University of Louisville
Susan Starling, Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital
Susan Swinford, Hospice of the Bluegrass
Dianne Timmering, Signature HealthCARE
Melissa Updike, Kentuckiana Medical Reciprocal Risk Retention Group
William Wagner, Family Health Centers
The Seven Counties Services Healthcare Advocacy Award
American Heart Association
Mark Bolton, Metro Department of Corrections
Lorrel Brown, MD, KentuckyOne Health and University of Louisville
Mark Evers, MD, UK HealthCare
Family Community Clinic
Kentuckiana Health Collaborative
Kentucky Homeplace
Kentucky Racing Health Services Center
Sean McPhillips, Collaborative Rural Health Funding Initiative
Brent Morris, MD, Lexington Clinic
Joe Murrell, Wayne County Hospital
Susan Swinford, Hospice of the Bluegrass
The Kentucky Life Sciences Council Healthcare Innovation Award
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Kentucky
Cedar Lake
Center for Women & Infants at University of Louisville Hospital
Highlands Regional Medical Center
Inscope Medical
Liberate Medical
Lucina Health
3DR Laboratories
UK HealthCare Maternal-Fetal Medicine Blue Angels program
The Hospice of the Bluegrass Aging Care Award
MD2U
Owensboro Health
UofL Institute for Sustainable Health & Optimal Aging
Nurse of the Year Award
Sandy Mathis, Hospice of the Bluegrass
Whitney Nash, UofL School of Nursing
Pat Tucci, Bluegrass.org
Physician of the Year Award
Todd Cote, MD, Hospice of the Bluegrass
Henry Kaplan, MD, UofL Physicians
Khanh Nguyen, MD, Owensboro Health
Chris Noonan, MD, Kentuckiana Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Jonathan Ray, MD, Louisville Hospitalist Associates
LaTonia Sweet, MD, Bluegrass.org
Since 2007 IGE Media, publisher of Medical News, has recognized excellence in the business of healthcare at the exclusive MediStar Awards, which honors healthcare professionals for their achievements in advocacy, innovation, education, leadership and aging care. This year we will celebrate the “best of the best” in the region, including the announcement of the Physician and Nurse of the Year. The event also features networking with healthcare professionals and executives during a cocktail reception.
Winners will be announced at the 10th Annual MediStar Awards in October. Additional information can be found at www.medistarawards.com.
