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SeHealth recognizes achievements in health during annual awards

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Pictured winners are, from left: Health Care Provider Award
winner Gibson Cancer Center Physician Assistant Windy Christy;
Business Award Wesley Pines Retirement Community
represented by Amy Shooter; Individual Impact Award winner
April Oxendine; one of the In-House Hero Award honorees,
SeHealth Director of Clinical Care Nurse Cynthia George;
Commitment to Community Health Award winner Chelsea Biggs;
Recovery Warrior Award winner Stop the Pain represented by
Rocky Locklear; Community Education and Emergency Support
Award winner Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Sigma Iota
Omega Chapter, represented by Pauline Campbell; Faith Based
Award winner Ron Barnes, represented by Keith Davis; Lifetime
Achievement Award Winner Dr. Thomas Walden of Gibson
Cancer Center; and Government Award winner Tribal Chair
Harvey Godwin. Not pictured, Driver of Health Award winner
Rev. William Gentry.

Organizations and individuals were recognized for their efforts to improve the health of the region during Southeastern Health’s
2019 Regional Community Health Awards program, which was recently held at the A.D. Lewis Auditorium on the campus of
Robeson Community College. This is the seventh annual event.

The awards are presented by Southeastern Health, with the assistance of SeHealth’s Community Health Services (CHS)
department. They focus on four major areas of health promotion: risk management, early detection, lifestyle modification and
disease management. This year’s theme is “Together we make a world of difference.”

SeHealth lights ribbon to kick off breast cancer

awareness month

Radiologist Dr. Sam Armani, left, speaks at a ceremonial pink
ribbon lighting held Tuesday, Oct. 1 at Southeastern Health’s
Southeastern Radiology Associates (SeRA). The event
included open house tours of new SeRA mammography
technology, a reception, music and breast cancer survivor
testimonials. Attendees observed a moment of silence when the
large pink ribbon at the top of Southeastern Regional Medical
Center’s bed tower was lit. The ribbon will remain at the top
of the SRMC bed tower throughout October, which is Breast
Cancer Awareness Month.

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have
been
workin
g with
full-
term
and
premat
ure
babies
at
SRMC.
Their
work is
aided
by
upgrad
es
made
in
2017
to the
unit,
which
can
care
for
babies
born
up to
10
weeks
early.

“Not a
lot of
therapi
sts go
into
the
NICU,
” Hunt
said.
“It
require
s
additio
nal
trainin
g and
mentor
ship,
and
becaus
e it’s so
special
ized, it
can be
hard
to find
people
to
mentor
you in
this
area.
We
conduc
t
evalua
tions,
develo
p
treatm
ent
plans,
and as
they
progre
ss to go
home,
we
integra
te the
family
into
that
plan.”

Kayla
White,
of
Lumbe
rton, is
a nurse
at
SRMC
who is
also a
parent
of a
child
who
went
throug
h the
NICU.
Her
son,
Harris
on,
who
turns 1
this
weeken
d, was
born
six
weeks
early
but is
now
thrivin
g.