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Honoring

Jupiter Resident Wins 2022 Town Of Palm Beach

United Way Nettie Finkle Award

Kathleen Waddell is the winner of the 2022 Town of From left: 2022 Nettie hiring a new staff food and nutrition coordinator. The award
Palm Beach United Way Nettie Finkel Award. Waddell, Finkle Award winner winner was chosen by a Town of Palm Beach United Way
a volunteer at El Sol, Jupiter’s Neighborhood Resource Kathleen Waddell Committee that reviews nominations submitted by the
Center, accepted the award Tuesday, April 19, at The with Diane McNeal, agency’s 47 partner agencies. Palm Beach’s United Way
Breakers during the United Way’s Annual Meeting. The a managing director also made a $2,000 donation to El Sol in Waddell’s honor.
award recognizes volunteer excellence. at CIBC Private El Sol exists to improve the quality of life for the
Waddell was lauded for her many areas of service, Wealth and a Town of residents of Jupiter and surrounding communities by
which include being a lead kitchen volunteer, writing Palm Beach United providing services primarily to day laborers and their
grant applications, assisting with community events, and Way volunteer; and families.
advocating for El Sol within the Town of Jupiter. She helped Monica Maldonado, For more information, visit friendsofelsol.org.
design and secure funding for a new kitchen renovation vice chair of El Sol’s
and managed the kitchen for three months prior to El Sol Board of Directors Photo by Capehart Photography

Fundraising from page 25

T he Gol de n Cub
Ambassadors Club is
open to Friends of the
Foundation, ages 21 to 45.
One hundred percent of the
funds raised by the club
will be distributed annually
to a program or project
in support of children’s
health care as voted on
by the membership. To
become a member of the
Golden Cub Ambassadors
Club, please visit nchcf.
org/goldencub.

Photos by Tracey Benson Allison Nicklaus, Nan O’Leary, Mackenzie O’Leary,
Photography Nikki Guidish, Nicole Hurd, Turner Mistretta Emory Simpson, Maggi Haigh, Zoe Sullivan Mallory O’Leary

Tampa General Hospital’s Health Ambassador Program

Is A Personal Guide To World-Class Care

The Health Ambassador Program When K.C. Austin, a

reduces stress on patients and resident on Florida’s East
Coast, was battling the
families, so they can focus on Delta variant of COVID-19,
he was rushed to a Palm
what matters most. Beach County hospital’s
intensive care unit. Austin
The Health Ambassador Program at Tampa General was intubated, and he and
Hospital (TGH) provides world-class medical care with his family were soon facing
white-glove service. When patients from across Florida life-or-death decisions.
need to be transferred to TGH, a TGH health ambassador “They started talking
will handle all the details for them, whether they need help about him needing a transfer
making a general appointment, scheduling a test, or preparing for ECMO (extracorporeal
for surgery and/or an inpatient stay. Simply give TGH a call, membrane oxygenation
and they will take care of the rest. through a heart-lung
As an integral part of the TGH team, a designated health machine), and that made
ambassador will: it more real,” said Danielle
• Schedule patient appointments and testing Austin, K.C.’s wife.
• Arrange hotel and other travel needs if the patient and “Luckily, the doctors had
their family are coming to TGH from outside the Tampa started the paperwork for
Bay area the transfer pretty early on. Dr. Abraham Schwarzberg, Senior Vice President of Network Development & Chief of
• Help patients with any business needs they may have When I got that phone call Oncology at Tampa General Hospital, sees patients in Palm Beach County and from
during their stay that he was being transferred across the Treasure Coast. When needed, he refers patients to Tampa General Hospital for
• Coordinate any follow-up care, imaging, or further tests to TGH, I just said, ‘Oh my complex care.
a patient may need gosh, we have a chance.’
Tampa General Hospital is committed to becoming The night he was airlifted, we sat on my in-laws’ patio and Lynn Stockford, RN, BSN
the safest and most innovative academic health system waited to see that helicopter take off.” Manager, Physician Network
in the country. It is working to achieve that by offering “The communication at TGH was unbelievable,” Danielle Business Development
the latest treatment options available, utilizing evidence- said. “The fact that I was able to speak to a physician or Lynn educates healthcare
based practices, providing full transparency every step of representative every day, even when I was in West Palm providers and patients on
the way, and extending personalized, white-glove service Beach, was unbelievable. I never felt like I didn’t know what the complex care TGH’s
to each patient. was going on. I never felt that they weren’t doing everything expert physicians provide
“Patience, empathy and servitude are the basis of our they could.” and where appropriate,
program. We understand and respect each of our patients’ All of the right decisions were made at the right time for facilitates transfers through
unique medical and personal needs,” said Lynn Stockford, Mr. Austin, and that continuum of care at TGH is why he is TGH’s ambassador and
network development manager at TGH. “Our goal is to alive today. transfer teams.
reduce stress, so patients and their families can focus on For a consultation, please call (561) 644-0125.
what matters most.”
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