Hospital wins business award
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. At its 57th Annual Conference in Atlantic City, Newton Memorial Hospital recently announced it had received the 2007 Business Associate Award from the New Jersey Association of Counties. “Your hospital has been an active conduit of positive change,” said Celeste Carpiano, executive director of NJPAC in a letter to Newton Memorial’s President and CEO Tom Senker. “You have helped identify key health and human services needs. Your organization has made the community a better place to live.” Sussex County Freeholder Glen Vetrano nominated Newton Memorial Hospital for this prestigious honor. The Sussex County Freeholder Board, and Vetrano personally, have always been ardent supporters of Newton Memorial Hospital, a reason the hospital acknowledges it has been able to grow and thrive. Vetrano, who represents Sussex County with the NJAC, said that NJAC’s 21 representatives are asked to identify businesses with an excellent relationship with county government. He believed that Newton Memorial fit that description. “When I consider a service provider and a hospital fitting that category, I can honestly say that Newton Memorial Hospital has a good relationship with county government; first in the area of mental health and now with Sussex County Community College coming online with the nursing program,” Vetrano said. “It’s no one thing that Newton Memorial has done, but it’s what they’ve done over the course of time.” Newton Memorial Hospital’s Vice President of Behavioral Health, Bill Yee, accepted the award. He attended the conference in Atlantic City, along with Human Resources Director Kay Bryant and Community Benefit/Health Education Coordinator Dottie Fausak. With the latest honor, Newton Memorial Hospital has won a few national, state and county awards over the last two months. The national award from VHA Inc. recognized the hospital for clinical excellence, and the Sussex County Economic Development Partnership gave the hospital its Business Expansion award for adding the Charles L. Tice Heart Center for Diagnostic Services.