Small Business Times is proud to announce the winners of the third annual Health
Care Heroes Awards program. SBT Health Care Heroes Awards honor organizations and individuals who epitomize the
spirit embodied in the word “hero” in the delivery of health care to the community.
The goals of the program are to recognize excellence, promote innovation, encourage
emulation of successful programs, educate the general public, contribute to the
enhancement of the value and quality of health care and, ultimately, give
recognition to those deserving.
“Too many of these people and organizations never receive the recognition they
deserve.
The Health Care Heroes Awards honor people on the front line of health
care. They’re ordinary people doing extraordinary things,” said Small Business Times
publisher Dan Meyer.
Nearly 50 nominations were submitted to SBT for the program this year. The Health
Care Heroes were selected by a prestigious panel of judges, including: Dr. Randall
Lambrecht, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Health
Sciences; Karen Ordinans, executive director of the Children’s Health Alliance of
Wisconsin; Dr. Sarah Pratt, a pediatrician who is the past president of the Medical
Society of Milwaukee County Board of Directors and a current member of the Wisconsin
Medical Society Board of Directors; and Connie Roethel, R.N., wellness expert and
president of Core Health Group in Mequon.
The 2006 Health Care Heroes Awards Breakfast will be held on Thursday, Dec. 7, at
the Wyndham Milwaukee Center Hotel. Registration will begin at 7 a.m., and the
breakfast and program will run from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Individual reservations can be
made for $40 each; corporate tables also are available for $400 for table of 10.
WISN-Channel 12 news anchor Caroline Lyders will emcee the awards program.
For more information on the program or to make reservations for the breakfast,
contact Sarah Wilson at (414) 277-8181, ext. 129, send an e-mail to
sarah.wilson@biztimes.com. Additional information about the program is posted at
www.biztimes.com.
2006 Health Care Heroes
– Advancements in Health Care
Martha Rasmus, president and chief executive officer, Mental Health Association in
Milwaukee County.
Dr. Michael Kellum, medical director of Mercy Health System Walworth Medical Center,
Lake Geneva.
– Community Service
Lisa Alberte, president, chief executive officer, R.N. and vocational rehabilitation
specialist, Lisa K. Alberte & Associates, Muskego.
Ronald Komas, founder and volunteer, The Kathy Hospice at SynergyHealth St. Joseph’s
Hospital, West Bend.
Dr. Patricia Safavi, pediatrician, Next Door Pediatrics, Milwaukee.
– Corporate Achievement in Health Care
Mental health alliance of Rogers Memorial Hospital, Oconomowoc; Froedtert Memorial
Lutheran Hospital, Wauwatosa; and Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital, Milwaukee.
– Health Care Staff
Mary Conti, clinical resource management coordinator, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran
Hospital, Wauwatosa.
Thomas Shiltz, licensed professional counselor, Rogers Memorial Hospital, Oconomowoc.
– Nurse
Lori Banker-Horner, L.P.N. and patient services coordinator, Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis (ALS) Association-Wisconsin Chapter, Brookfield.
Kathleen Timm, R.N., Horizon Home Care & Hospice Inc., Brown Deer.
– Physician
Dr. Beth Ann Drolet, medical director, the Dermatology Clinic & the Birthmarks &
Vascular Anomalies Center at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa.
Dr. Ian Gilson, clinical and primary care physician, Aurora Medical Clinic, Milwaukee.
– Volunteer
Bill Parkinson, volunteer, Horizon Home Care & Hospice Inc. Brown Deer.
Thomas Smallwood, administrator, Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation, Elm Grove, and
volunteer, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital.
