At HCA’s Annual Conference on May 5, 2022, we had the distinct honor of recognizing these exceptional home care and hospice caregivers, programs, patients, leaders and organizations. Please click below for a profile of each award recipient, their accomplishments, and contributions to the field.
2022 Ruth F. Wilson Award RecipientJane Shukitis, past President & CEO of UR Medicine Home Care
HCA’s highest honor, the Ruth F. Wilson Award, goes to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional dedication and made a significant contribution to home care over a period of time. With this award, HCA recognizes someone whose work has had a dramatic effect on home care, reaching beyond a single agency. This prestigious award recognizes an individual who has made our services stronger and more visible and who has never wavered from his or her support of home care.
2022 Home Care Patient "Shining Light" Award RecipientIn Memoriam of April Perrino The Community Hospice St. Peter's Health Partners
HCA’s Patient “Shining Light” award is given to a patient who has confronted medical challenges or circumstances in a way that has achieved far-reaching inspirational and exemplary effects.
2022 Caring Award Recipient Kelly Englerth, RN at Rochester Regional Health System
The Caring Award recognizes a staff person of an agency who has exhibited the compassion, skills and service that sets his or her contribution apart and/or whose actions on a particular day or over a period of time exemplify caring in home care.
2022 Caring Award Recipient Leoni Ellis, Home Health Aide from Selfhelp Community Services
The Caring Award recognizes a staff person of an agency who has exhibited the compassion, skills and service that sets his or her contribution apart and/or whose actions on a particular day or over a period of time exemplify caring in home care.
2022 Caring Award Recipient Danielle Toto, LMSW at St. Mary's Home Care
The Caring Award recognizes a staff person of an agency who has exhibited the compassion, skills and service that sets his or her contribution apart and/or whose actions on a particular day or over a period of time exemplify caring in home care.
2022 Quality & Innovation Award Recipient Statewide Hospital-Home Care Collaborative
Catholic Health Home Care
Community Health Center of St.Mary's
Eddy Visiting Nurse and Rehabilitation Association
Gurwin Health Care System
Mohawk Valley Home Care
Nascentia Health
Northwell Health at Home
Mount Sinai at Home
St. Mary's Home Care for Children
St. Joseph's Health at Home
UR Medicine Home Care
The HCA Quality & Innovation award recognizes a home and community-based organization that has implemented a program or initiative with demonstrated outcomes in terms of client satisfaction, population health improvement, and cost reduction or avoidance.
2022 Quality & Innovation Award Recipient
HCA Pediatric Sepsis ToolDevneet Singh, MD/MBA Student Albany Medical College
Shayhaan Shaikh, MD/MBA Student Albany Medical College
Participating agencies for the Devlopment of the HCA Pediatric Sepsis Tool:
Americare, Inc.
Northwell Health
Mohawk Valley Home Care
St. Mary's Home Care
UR Medicine Home Care
The HCA Quality & Innovation award recognizes a home and community-based organization that has implemented a program or initiative with demonstrated outcomes in terms of client satisfaction, population health improvement, and cost reduction or avoidance.
2022 Home Care Physician Champion Award Recipient Dr. Kalliope Tsitilakis of New York-Presbyterian Queens and St. Mary's Home Care
The Physician Home Care Champion Award recognizes a physician in New York State who has demonstrated a strong and model commitment to home care patients and agency partners.