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Center for Excellence in Nursing
A Special Way to Say Thank You to Nurses
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View a photo tour of the 2011 Center for Excellence in Nursing Dinners |
The dedicated nurses of Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Health System provide high-quality care to patients in our hospitals and outpatient facilities every day. These nurses feel appreciated when they are acknowledged for a job well done. There are times, though, when you would like to do more than say thanks — and a donation to the Center for Excellence in Nursing shows the nurses who have been so important to you that their efforts haven’t gone unnoticed.
Donations to the Center are used for the education and development of our nursing staff, to reward outstanding nurses for their contributions to the profession, to send students through nursing school and to improve patient care with nurse-approved equipment and programs. You and the nurses you are honoring will be recognized on special plaques which will be permanently displayed in the Emergency Departments of each of our hospitals.
The Center’s Commitments
The Center for Excellence in Nursing has targeted four specific programs that nurses feel are in need of more funds.
- Nursing Education: Donations to
nursing education allow more nurses to attend advanced training
classes.
- Scholarship and Retention: To
offset the nursing shortage, our Nurse Scholars program offers
full scholarships to men and women who want to enter nursing
and other allied health professions. We offer training on
campus and offsite, in conjunction with local colleges and
universities. Upon graduation, Alliance Scholars work in
a Central Florida Health Alliance facility for at least two
years.
- Technology: Access to the latest
technology enhances our nurses’ ability to communicate,
to interface with other hospital systems, and to maximize
patient comfort and safety. If also gives them more time
to spend with their patients.
- Hospital-Specific Needs: You may wish to restrict your gift to a specific hospital or allow us to use it where the need is greatest. If the gift is restricted to one of our hospitals without a designation to a specific area, the Center for Excellence in Nursing committee will choose how to use your gift.
Honoring Our Nurses
Each year at the Center for Excellence in Nursing Appreciation Banquet, we applaud and honor all nurses working at Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Health System. The banquet includes scholarship announcements and the annual “Values in Action” award winners presentation. In 2012, the event will take place on May 9 & 10 at the Mission Inn. Invitations will be mailed out soon.
To learn more about making a donation to the Center for Excellence in Nursing, please contact the Alliance Healthcare Foundation at (352) 751-8819 or email twilliams@cfhalliance.org.
*The initial grant for this program was generously provided by Phoenix Physicians Group, LLC
