Photograph courtesy of Stacy Skiba, left, director of enterprise operations at Hillman's Thunder Bay Neighborhood Well being Service, poses with the Elizabeth Okay. Cooke Advocacy MVP award she obtained from the Nationwide Affiliation of Neighborhood Well being Facilities.
The Nationwide Affiliation of Neighborhood Well being Facilities (NACHC) has honored Stacy Skiba of Hillman's Thunder Bay Neighborhood Well being Service with the Elizabeth Okay. Cooke Advocacy MVP Award.
The award acknowledges the dedication and mobilization efforts of advocates to construct public and political help for the nation's neighborhood well being facilities. Skiba obtained the award through the NACHC 2024 Coverage and Points Discussion board in Washington.
The annual convention attracts hundreds of well being care leaders from throughout the nation to assemble and give attention to methods that develop entry to inexpensive main care providers in underserved communities.
Skiba is Thunder Bay's Director of Enterprise Operations and has been with the group since 2007. Her tasks embody oversight of the well being middle's advocacy program, well being coverage, revenue-related applications for Thunder Neighborhood Well being Service Bay and advertising and marketing.
Skiba graduated from Central Michigan College, with a bachelor's diploma in public administration: neighborhood growth and a bachelor's diploma in administration. She is a local of Northern Michigan and is proud to proceed serving her neighborhood and being a voice advocating for others.
When requested why she is impressed to advocate for neighborhood well being facilities, Skiba responded, “I care about individuals and imagine that with the best assets, we will proceed to positively change the narrative for individuals inside and outdoors of our communities. ”.
The well being facilities are the most important main care community within the U.S., serving 31.5 million individuals at greater than 1,400 websites nationwide. The Well being Facilities' Grassroots Advocates Community is comprised of physicians, nurses, CEOs, frontline employees, board members and sufferers who’ve devoted themselves to advancing well being fairness in rural, city and border communities . Thunder Bay Neighborhood Well being Service represents almost 19,000 of these sufferers throughout the northern area, and providers are supplied at 5 main care places and 19 faculties.
“We’re thrilled to have a good time the most important class of grassroots advocacy award winners in NACHC historical past,” stated Dr. Kyu Rhee, NACHC President and CEO. “These honorees persistently go above and past to foster a tradition of advocacy inside their organizations and the neighborhood well being middle motion. “Their efforts to encourage and mobilize others are important to constructing hope for a future the place residents in each neighborhood throughout the nation have entry to high quality, inexpensive healthcare.”
Dr. Richard Bates, CEO of Thunder Bay Neighborhood Well being Service, shared that the promotion is a part of Thunder Bay Neighborhood Well being Service.
“It’s a important component of the work we’re doing in our native communities and Stacy embodies talking on behalf of TBCHS on the highest stage,” Bates stated.
Advocates are important to the sustainability of neighborhood well being facilities, which have saved numerous lives since they had been established almost 60 years in the past. Thunder Bay is acknowledged as an Advocacy Heart of Excellence on the Gold stage, which is the best stage of feat, and has over 200 well being middle advocates on its group who’re supporting the well being middle motion. Well being facilities rely upon bipartisan help from Congress and are grateful for that decades-long partnership.