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Nominations Sought for 2024 Community Health Hero
Awards
Published: August 01, 2024
at 08:30 p.m.
By: Press Release from Fort Drum Regional Health
Planning Organization
CALL FOR
NOMINATIONS FOR LOCAL “COMMUNITY HEALTH HEROES”
FDRHPO and North
Country Health Compass Partners seek nominations for the 2024 “Community
Health Hero” awards.
 Watertown, NY– Fort Drum Regional
Health Planning Organization (FDRHPO) and North Country Health Compass
Partners are asking residents of Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence
counties to nominate an individual in their community whom they consider to
be a “Community Health Hero.”
Anyone who has
demonstrated outstanding public service and a commitment to improving the
health and wellness of their community can be nominated, and one individual
from each county will be chosen to receive a 2024 Community Health Hero
Award.
All nominees
must…
·
live or work in Jefferson, Lewis, or St. Lawrence counties
(not necessarily in the healthcare field);
·
dedicate time and resources toward the improvement of
community health and wellness; and
·
show a level of care and compassion that exceeds that
which is demonstrated by an average citizen.
“In celebration
of National Rural Health Day, we honor three Community Health Heroes each
year at our North Country Community Health Hero Event. Since 2017, we have
celebrated 18 individuals from Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence County;
all of whom demonstrated an exceptional level of compassion, selflessness,
and dedication to improving our rural communities’ health and wellness,”
explains Kayla Burns, Population Health Coordinator. “We are asking
community members from the three-county region to nominate one individual
that they believe embodies what it means to be a ‘Community Health Hero.’
This could be a healthcare professional, a volunteer, a business owner, an
advocate, or anyone else that has actively worked towards improving the
health and wellness of our region.”
Community members
may submit one nomination for consideration. Volunteers from the North
Country Health Compass Partners will then select one recipient from each of
the counties (three awards total) based on the following factors: relation
to health and wellness; scope of impact; depth of impact; social influence;
volunteerism; and uniqueness. Recipients will be honored locally during the
Community Health Heroes Luncheon on Thursday, November 7, 2024, and throughout
New York State on November 21, 2023, National Rural Health Day.
The nomination
form can be found by visiting www.fdrhpo.org
or by clicking this LINK. All nominations must be submitted
by August 30 by 4 p.m.
For more
information, call or email Kayla Burns, Population Health Coordinator at
FDRHPO at 315-755-2020 ext. 21 or kburns@fdrhpo.org.
Photo: 2023 Health
Heroes stand for a photo at the Hilton Garden Inn Watertown. (left to
right): Jayme Smith, PSYD, St. Lawrence Health Systems’ Behavioral Health, Scott
Stern, MD, North Country Family Health Center (NCFHC), Rebecca
Pate-Johnson, Head Start, Community Action Planning Council.
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About the Fort Drum Regional Health
Planning Organization
FDRHPO works to
strengthen the system for health for the integrated Fort Drum and civilian
community through analysis, identification of needs and leveraging of
resources to fill gaps through innovation and collaboration. For more about
FDRHPO, visit www.fdrhpo.org.
About the North Country Health Compass
Partners
The North Country
Health Compass Partners is a collaborative of local hospitals, public
health agencies, behavioral healthcare providers, prevention councils, and
community-based organizations that meets monthly to discuss and review the
community’s population health priorities.
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