Top honoree
Nurse-Family Partnership
Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana
The program, which has spread to 32 counties, pairs Medicaid-eligible, first-time mothers-to-be with registered nurses who coach them through their pregnancies and beyond.
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Pediatric Center of Hope
Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health
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Franciscan Hospice House
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Riley Precision Genomics
Top honoree
Dr. Krista Brucker
Eskenazi Health
Brucker took the lead in starting Eskenazi Health’s Project POINT program, which provides a holistic response to the opioid epidemic.
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Dr. Paula Gustafson
Major Health Partners
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Dr. Elisabeth von der Lohe
Indiana University Health
Top honoree
Paige Dooley
Community Health Network
Dooley is the vice president of patient services and chief nurse executive at Community Hospital East, where she’s known for her work ethic, compassion, kindness and enthusiasm.
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Greg Denniston
Aspire Indiana
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Joani Rothenberg
St. Vincent
Top honoree
Denise Whitfield
Indiana University Health
Whitfield founded the Pet-a-Pet program at Methodist Hospital in 1986 and estimates she’s spent 1,400 hours connecting dogs with patients.
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Emma Stumpf
Cancer Support Community Central Indiana
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Bud Swineford
Alzheimer’s Association Greater Indiana Chapter
