LeadingAge Washington’s 2018 Awards and Recognition Program is all about people who make a difference every day in the lives of those they serve. It‘s all about people who put quality first, deliver excellence, and inspire others to do the same.
The LeadingAge Awards Program, Awards of Excellence recognizes those individuals and organizations that have made an outstanding contribution in the fields of aging, health care, housing, and community-based services. It is our way of saying thank you, to those who do more than what is merely expected of them, who do the right things for the right reasons. Thank you to our long-standing program sponsor, USI.
Our 2018 Awards of Excellence winners were recognized at our 67th Annual Conference recently held at the Davenport Grand Hotel, Spokane WA Award Brochure View below!
Recognized by LeadingAge WA’s 2018 Board Chair – Jay Woolford, Executive Director, Sustainable Housing for Ageless Generations SHAG
Tracy Fritts, Consonus Healthcare Services (L) & Karmen Hudson, Judson Park (R)
Nora Gibson, Full Life Care (R)
Intergeneration Program, Wesley Des Moines
Accepting for Wesley, Naniofa Poulivaati-Mounga “Nani” (L)
Judson Park, Des Moines
Cultural Diversity Award – Around the World – A Taste of Judson Park
Leading-Edge Care & Services – College of Intellectual Inspiration
Accepting for Judson Park – Jonathan Boyar, Executive Director (R)
Alex Candalla, Executive Director, Wesley Des Moines
lasted updated August 13th
2017 Awards of Excellence Recognition Brochure
2016 Awards of Excellence Recognition Brochure
2015 Awards of Excellence Recognition Brochure
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