ASSEMBLY 2024

Awards

Each year at the Catholic Health Assembly, CHA presents five awards that recognize remarkable contributions to Catholic health care.

For innovative programming that changes lives

The Achievement Citation will be announced during the Awards Banquet in San Diego.

For a lifetime of contributions to the ministry

Ron Hamel, Ph.D.
Past Member, SSM Health Ministries and Board of Directors
SSM Health

For boldly championing society's most vulnerable

Dori Leslie
President
CHI Friendship

Rachelle Barina
Chief Mission Officer/Hospital Sisters Health System

Haley Busch, PharmD, BCPS
Quality Manager, Opioid Stewardship Program Coordinator, CHI Saint Joseph Health

Bridget Fitzpatrick
Chief Operating Officer, Richmond Community Hospital, Bon Secours Mercy Health

Faith Halford
Systems Manager Materials Management,
St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System

Thomas Klein, FACHE
Chief Operating Officer, Ascension Medical Group Michigan

Carrie Meyer McGrath
System Director, Formation Design and Delivery, CommonSpirit Health

Sam Prokopec
Executive Director, St. Joseph's Elder Services

Shekinah Singletery
Director of Community Health & Well-Being, Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Livingston Hospitals

Megan Timm
Regional Director of Community Health, SSM Health, Wisconsin

Caleb Townes
Director of Consumer Patient Experience, Ascension Alabama

Dan Woods, MSN, RN
Sr. Director of Emergency Services and Hospital Throughput, St. Dominic Jackson Memorial Hospital

Zach Zirkelbach
Chief Financial Officer, Ascension St. Vincent