OVH celebrates Honoured to Care Award recipients
Oak Valley Health (OVH) is celebrating the people who help bring its honoured-to-care culture to life through the organization’s Honoured to Care Awards.
The awards recognize staff, professional staff, and volunteers who embody OVH’s core values of respect, trust, commitment, compassion, and courage—principles that guide the organization’s mission to deliver an extraordinary patient experience.
Staff, patients, families, and the community were invited to submit nominations for staff, professional staff, and volunteers who best demonstrated the organization’s core values. Individuals, groups, and even entire teams were nominated across Markham Stouffville Hospital, Uxbridge Hospital, and the Reactivation Care Centre.
The awards highlight the entire organization, touching every part of the care journey. They recognize the invaluable contributions of all staff — clinical, support, administrative, and beyond — whose collective efforts ensure exceptional care. Aligning with Oak Valley Health’s 2024–2029 Strategic Plan, this recognition highlights its dedication to empowering its people and strengthening the culture they are building together.
This year’s recipients were honoured across five core value categories.
Respect: Amanda Colangelo, Manager, Food Services and Tweety Ng, Social Worker, Childbirth and Children’s Services.
Trust: Rowena Isla, Charge Nurse, Transitional Care Unit and Mary Tang, Nurse Practitioner, Inpatient Surgery.
Commitment: Jim Crewe, Registered Respiratory Therapist and Margie Mackie, Nurse Navigator, OPMH.
Compassion: Alanna Landry, Registered Nurse, Paediatric Diabetes Clinic and Crisis Team Mental Health team members Ana Anjema, Celeste Clarke, Gary Edney, Susie Gerrow, Lan Hwang, Leslie Jones, Vibusha Krishnantharajah, Kimberly Kurschinski, Deb Lewis, Denise Nicholson, Ravi Saravanamuttu, Ahilia Singh-Morales.
Courage: Christine McGilvray, Patient Care Manager, Uxbridge Hospital and Sandeep Yakub, Patient Care Manager, Allied Health, Critical Care Unit & CCRT.
For more information about this year’s recipients and to read excerpts of their nominations, visit the Honoured to Care Awards webpage at oakvalleyhealth.ca.
Photo: This year’s Honoured to Care award recipients.
*Story submitted by Alanna Sloan.