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Westerly Hospital Names
Leader and Employee of the Year
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At the annual Service Awards held on May 15 at the
Westerly Yacht Club, over ninety employees were honored for their dedicated
service to the community hospital.
Singled out this year was Marta Parsons, Nurse Manager in the
Hospital’s Emergency Department who was named Leader of the Year,
and Jodi Lamport, Surgical Care Nursing
Assistant who was named Employee of the Year.
Marta Parsons has been a part of Westerly Hospital’s
nursing staff since1976. She began
her career as a staff nurse in the Surgical Care Unit and has worked in
various other clinical positions within the hospital, including service
within the intensive care unit, surgical care, women’s health,
ambulatory care, and the emergency department. Parsons assumed her current role as
nurse manager of the emergency department in 2006.
Parsons has received numerous awards throughout her
career, including the Nurse Hero Award, awarded by The Westerly Hospital
in 2006, and the Emergency Nurse of the Year, in 1995 and 1996, bestowed
upon her by other emergency nurses throughout Rhode Island.
A certified emergency nurse, Marta holds an
associate’s degree in nursing from Mohegan
Community College and is
currently working on a bachelor’s degree in nursing at Kaplan University where she is a member
of the president’s honor roll for maintaining a grade point average
of 3.96; she is expected to graduate in January 2009.
Parsons currently resides in Westerly,
Rhode Island with her fiancé John
Brennan, and has two grown sons, Josh Parsons of Pawcatuck, and Mark
Parsons of Virginia.
Lamport joined the Westerly Hospital as a nursing assistant in
2005. An active member of the
community, Lamport participates in various
community events including the Relay for Life, the hospital’s
volunteer emergency response team, and as a member of amateur billiard
and volleyball leagues. According
to her manager, Rita Pellicano, “During the Bradford Dye
Association fire last June, Jodi was one of the first responders to the
hospital, even though she was off duty at the time. When I arrived at the hospital, she was
standing in the ER dressed and ready in her hazardous materials
outfit.”
While working in a nursing home in New Hampshire, Lamport
was nominated for Nurses Aide of the Year. She is a resident of Ashaway, Rhode Island.
Lamport, as well as other
employees selected for similar awards at hospitals around the state, will
be honored by the Hospital Association of Rhode Island (HARI) at its
annual “Celebration of Excellence” ceremony.
6/3/08
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