CHC/SEK announces new community award, The Judy 

PITTSBURG — Group Well being Middle of Southeast Kansas will current a brand new neighborhood service award along with its 20th 12 months celebration. This award will probably be named after CHC/SEK board member Judy Westhoff, coined “The Judy.”

Westhoff is without doubt one of the authentic board of administrators, having served 19 years with out lacking one among greater than 220 conferences.

The “Judy” award will probably be given to a person or a company that’s making or has made vital contributions to CHC/SEK, to the sufferers within the communities that it serves. Awardees will show a ardour for serving to others by exemplifying CHC/SEK’s core values of service, stewardship, excellence and kindness.

“We will consider no higher particular person by which to call this award,” stated Jason Wesco, CHC/SEK President and Chief Technique Officer through the annual Worker Service Awards Recognition Banquet on Thursday night.  

Along with the announcement of the award, Westhoff was additionally acknowledged with the Sheridan Award that night. CHC/SEK presents an annual Sheridan Award to somebody who has made an affect on the clinic. The Sheridan Award was named after Mom Mary Bernard Sheridan, CSJ, who in 1903 opened Mt. Carmel Hospital on the land at which the CHC/SEK Pittsburg clinic now sits. Mom Bernard instructed her small group of Sisters on the hospital (there was no paid workers then) to “do all the nice we are able to, in all of the methods we are able to, to all of the individuals we are able to and simply so long as we are able to,” and their legacy continues to information the well being middle right now.  

“Our honoree has labored tirelessly for a few years with numerous volunteer hours to help instructional, creative, social providers, healthcare, fundraising, friendraising, advocacy and giving each throughout her distinguished profession in banking and because the downtown improvement director and in her retirement,” Wesco stated. “There definitely hasn’t been a extra apt description of her dedication to this neighborhood.”

Westhoff has supported, simply to call a number of, Pittsburg State College, Pittsburg Group Theatre, the Colonial Fox Theatre, the YMCA, Woman Scouts, Elm Acres, the Childrens Advocacy Useful resource Middle, Rotary, The Household Useful resource Middle and the Group Well being Middle of Southeast Kansas. She has been a Ladies of Distinction, obtained PSU’s Rex Crawley Service Award, is within the Pittsburg Household YMCA Corridor of Fame, and obtained the Pittsburg Space Chamber of Commerce Spirit of Pittsburg award.

“I’ve been in a position to obtain much more from Group Well being Middle than I’ve put in for my household and myself,” Westhoff stated. “I can’t let you know of all of the individuals out right here who’ve been so useful and so type and care about the whole lot they do. It’s simply superb. I simply can’t start to inform everyone how a lot I respect the whole lot they do. Thanks.”