TowerTalk Volume 15 Issue Nr. 9, December 1992

              SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL'DENVER, COLORADO
VOLUME 15, NUMDER 9 * DECEMDER 1992
Five New Peopled Choice Recipients Named
k'k'k'^kkk:
Dominic de Profio, Debbie
Johnson-Sasso, Kay Thomas, Sandy
Dewhurst, and Barbara Wertz have
been selected from 25 employees,
volunteers and physicians who were
nominated for the People's Choice
Award this quarter. The five winners
were presented with People's Choice
certificates at the December 3
Towertalk live sessions, awarded a
cash prize of $150 and three months
free parking. Each of the five will
also be invited to and recognized at
the 1993 Longterm Employee
Dinner.
The following are excerpts from
nominations submitted to the
committee selecting the People's
Choice winners:
Deacon Dominic de Profio
Deacon Dominic de Profio,
Pastoral Care, is a staff advocate
who holds support groups for
several units: He is a patient advo-
cate with a warm, quiet, caring
Debbie Johnson-Sasso
attitude. He sees the best in each
person; he models his spirituality
and teaches the unteachables.
"On several occasions," one
nominator writes, "I have known
him to visit patients after they left
his floor. He has sought out families
when the patient was in ICU. He
takes time with each one and shows
both interest and compassion. He is
a cheerful, caring, gentle man."
Debbie Johnson-Sasso, charge
nurse, Coronary Care Unit, was
nominated by an employee who
says, "Your description of someone
with good values, sounds as if you're
describing Debbie. In her years as
an employee of Saint Joseph
Hospital, Debbie has grown from
graduate nurse to CCU charge
nurse. She prides herself on main-
taining a unit and staff that take
pride in delivering exceptional and
state-of-the-art nursing care to the
acute cardiac patient Despite what-
<^/ister Marianna Bauder,
the Sisters of Chanty ofLeavenworth,
and the Administration of Saint Joseph Hospital
join in wishing you and your loved ones
a joyful holiday season and a new year filled with peace.
ever technology, pharmacology or
time constraint exists, her goal,
priority and concern are all focused
on the individual patients and their
needs."
Kay Thomas, R.N., DOSA "is
kind, caring and goes that extra
mile," according to her nomination.
The employee who nominated her
cited two specific incidents. In the
first, Kay took the time to contact a
surgeon, the pharmacy, and the
family of an elderly patient who
could not remember what medica-
tions she was on, how long she had
Kay Thomas, R.N.
been taking the medications or how
often she took them. As a result of
Kay's efforts, the patient's surgery
was canceled until sufficient infor-
mation could be gathered. The
patient had the surgery eventually
and had an excellent result Kay's
caring also extends beyond her
patients. One day she helped a
(Continued on page 4)
Table of Contents	
Getting to Know You..........	?
Peoptetalk..................	3
Speaking of Quality ..........	4
Boundary Buster Awards.......	5
Favorite Holiday Memories.....	6
Towertalk Live Summary.......	7
Nurang Scholarships Awarded ..	.8
Vehicles Heed Parking Stickers .	.9
Administrative Agenda.........	10