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Elevate Team Award

The MyHealth Bundles Team transforms and innovates health care to create a better patient experience.

By Diana Duren

“Now I can do everything. I can truly enjoy my grandchildren and go to all their sports activities without fearing walking up and down bleachers...I feel like my life is back.”

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Credo Award Winner

Flavia Atkins brings caring and leadership to the patients she guides as a health care navigator

By Leigh MacMillan

She takes pride not only in guiding patients on their health care journeys but also in serving as a resource who is always available to her fellow navigators

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Five Pillar Leader Award

Five Pillar Award recipient Gaye Smith on meetings, respect and one of her proudest accomplishments in 19 years at VUMC

By Danny Bonvissuto

“Respecting every human is essential to being a good human and a good manager."

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Credo Award Winner

For VUMC materials management supervisor Kelvin Devane, surgical patients’ needs are top of mind

By Nancy Humphrey

"I don’t know these people on the table having surgery, but it’s somebody’s dad, somebody’s mom, somebody’s child. I just want to help take care of them.”

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Credo Award Winner

Employing her background in counseling, Shannon Ontiveros brings compassion, advocacy and confidence to the Office of Faculty Affairs

By Bill Snyder

Shannon Ontiveros, director of the Office of Faculty Affairs and director of the Faculty Training…

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Five Pillar Leader Award

For Ali Grubbs, leadership means mentoring and empowering every employee

By Matt Batcheldor

"My favorite part of this job is taking care of the people and engaging with our staff and helping them solve problems and achieve professional growth and development.”

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Credo Award Winner

Whittney Ransom brings infectious positivity and exemplary work to her pharmacy job. She tells jokes too.

By Nancy Humphrey

"Her level of commitment to her colleagues is amazing and something we should all strive for."

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Elevate Team Award

Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Protocol Team improves lives of hard-to-diagnose patients

By Jill Clendening

“The NPH Protocol exemplifies multiple disciplines working together to improve the lives of patients and their caregivers.”

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Credo Award Winner

“Mama Stella” Lochmiller brings softness and support to the PICU

By Danny Bonvissuto

A combination of professional experience and personal loss makes Lochmiller a Credo Award winner during the February 2023 Leadership Assembly.

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