Recognition & Awards

Nominees must:

Be affiliated with a North Carolina hospice or palliative care provider or end of life care coalition that is a member of The Carolinas Center.

Have devoted significant time to promoting hospice care

Provide vision and innovation in approach to end of life care

Be involved in fostering relationships with strategic partners

Be involved in hospice care throughout North Carolina

Nominees must:

Be affiliated with a South Carolina hospice or palliative care provider or end of life care coalition that is a member of The Carolinas Center.

Have devoted significant time to promoting hospice care

Provide vision and innovation in approach to end of life care

Be involved in fostering relationships with strategic partners

Be involved in hospice care throughout South Carolina

This award honors extraordinary hospice volunteers in both North and South Carolina. Volunteers in all roles are eligible.

Nominees must:

Be a current volunteer with a hospice provider

Have been involved with the same hospice continuously for at least three years

Have demonstrated exceptional service with hospice

Exemplify the hospice philosophy

This awards recognizes excellent clinical care in a hospice professional of any discipline working in patient and family care.

Nominees must:

Be a current member of a North Carolina hospice interdisciplinary team

Have consistently demonstrated excellence in clinical care for at least three years

Have consistently initiated unique, creative approaches to patient and family care

Have demonstrated exceptional commitment to interdisciplinary teamwork

Be recognized for contributions to quality patient and family care

This award will recognize a hospice provider organization that has excelled in providing veterans services in the communities it serves.

Peter Keese Leadership Award: Heidi Owen, Hospice of the Carolina Foothills

Tamra West Leadership Award: John Douglas, formerly of Hospice of Chesterfield County

Judith Lund Person Hospice Volunteer Award: Lisa Kirchner, Hospice and Palliative Care of Cabarrus County

Sharon O. Dixon Clinical Excellence Award: Joyce E Conway, BSN CHPN CHPCA,Hospice and Palliative Care of Cabarrus County

Hospice Veteran Leadership Award: Hospice and Palliative Care of Greensboro

Palmetto Clinical Excellence Award: Aye Aung, MD Prisma Health-Midlands

Innovations in Palliative Care Award: Prisma Health- Midlands

Spirit of Hospice Award: Lori Welch, SWHospice and Palliative Care Center of Alamance-Caswell