THE VALUED VOICE

Nominations are now being accepted for WHA’s annual Distinguished Service Award and Trustee Award. These important awards recognize those who display leadership, dedication and professionalism to their community or the Association.

You may know someone in your region, in your hospital or on your board of directors who deserves such an honor. You now have an opportunity to nominate him or her for one of these annual awards:

• The Distinguished Service Award is presented to a senior health care executive who has made an exemplary commitment to WHA, his or her hospital and the communities he or she serves.
• The Trustee Award honors a trustee of a WHA member organization who has made an exemplary commitment to his or her community and to the organization on whose board he or she serves.

Administrators, trustees, senior managers, nurse leaders, volunteers and others are encouraged to review the criteria for the awards and consider nominating someone to receive one of these honors. Information on these two awards can be found on the WHA website.

The nominating committee will also make recommendations on new WHA board members. WHA members interested in being considered for, or wish to submit a candidate for, an at-large WHA board seat or the chair-elect position should contact WHA President Eric Borgerding.

Nominations for both the awards and WHA board of directors are due Friday, Sept. 3.