Marie Stewart is employee of the year
Florida Hospital Zephyrhills has named Marie Stewart at Employee of the Year for 2014. Stewart works in environmental services for the hospital. She is responsible for the operating room and pre-op areas within the hospital, and was recognized for her reliability, quality of work, initiative and professionalism.
Gulfside Hospice receives award for spiritual care
Gulfside Hospice was recognized at the Florida Hospice & Palliative Care Association’s Awards of Excellence luncheon in Orlando with an award for its Spiritual Care Volunteer Program.
Gulfside received the Excellence in Program Innovation in Clinical Practice award, which recognizes services and programs provided by a hospice organization that demonstrate the power of creativity and ingenuity to impact clinical practice and the community.
Gulfside began the program in 2013 to help the chaplains spend more time with complex spiritual cases while developing different resources for patients with less acute spiritual needs.
In 2014, Gulfside added to the program with the introduction of volunteer spiritual care counselors to visit home patients. The volunteers and counselors collectively visited 279 patients, for a total of 1,765 visits and 1,303 hours.
For information about the Spiritual Care Volunteer Program or to become a volunteer with the program, call Aaron Lever at (727) 992-7969.
Penny Heinrich joins Florida Cancer Affiliates
Florida Cancer Affiliates announced the addition of Dr. Penny Heinrich at its Trinity location, 3611 Little Road.
Heinrich comes from the Lewis Hall Singletary Oncology Center, affiliated with Archbold Medical Center in Thomasville, Georgia.
Heinrich received a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of South Florida, where she completed post-baccalaureate studies in science. Her residency and internship in internal medicine was completed at Louisiana State University in New Orleans.
