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Aurora Health Care's Kradwell School Receives National Planetree Award
Date:10/22/2008

ntered care initiatives with creativity, enthusiasm, and most importantly -- compassion.

The Caregiver Award recognizes that each employee is a caregiver with a unique opportunity to positively impact the way health care is delivered.

Aurora Health Care winners are:

Laura Kolp, a recreational therapist on the Acute Care for the Elderly Unit at Aurora Sinai Medical Center, coordinates animals, was instrumental in developing a music therapy program as well as an arts healing program, which allows a certified art therapist to work with patients.

Beverly Westphal, an environmental services worker on the Intensive Care Unit at Aurora Medical Center-Oshkosh, greets each day with enthusiasm and pride in her work and provides each patient daily with an inspiration quote written on a card. Passionate in making patients feel special, Westphal treats each patient as her own.

Cindy Jones, manager of food and environmental services at Aurora Medical Center -- Manitowoc County, created room service for all patients, Healthy Wednesdays in the cafeteria, full-color picture menus for patients unable to read and most recently joined the pet therapy team with her dog, Tess.

Sean DeWane, a staff action coordinator at Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay, worked with other caregivers, local fabric stores and volunteers to create fleece blankets given to all breast cancer surgery patients before surgery, so they can wake up snuggled in a blanket.

Kathy McCann, a clinic application system specialist for Washington County based at Aurora Health Center in Slinger, supports three clinics. She recognizes her role in delivering quality, comprehensive care for patients by addressing staff and physicians concerns promptly and thoroughly.

Rachel Roesler, R.N., in the neonatal intensive care unit at Aurora Sinai Medial Center, coordinates the unit's Christmas meal, inviting patients' families, ordering and delivering the meal, and trans
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