Milestone: OMC lauds Employee Health team members

By Sequim Gazette Staff • March 30, 2022 1:30 am
Members of Olympic Medical Center’s Health Team who were recently honored by OMC include (top row, from left) Jon Critchfield, Kate Villella and Steven Canepa, and (bottom row, from left) Madison Hiser, Angel Shaw and Olivia Due. Not pictured is Bonnie Rathford.
Members of Olympic Medical Center’s Health Team who were recently honored by OMC include (top row, from left) Jon Critchfield, Kate Villella and Steven Canepa, and (bottom row, from left) Madison Hiser, Angel Shaw and Olivia Due. Not pictured is Bonnie Rathford.

Olympic Medical Center representatives honored seven OMC Employee Health team members. recently, lauding the team members’ hours of work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

OMC’s Jennifer Burkhardt, chief human resource officer and general counsel, and Heather Delplain, director of human resources, along with the OMC Board of Commissioners, recently recognized seven OMC Employee Health team members.

OMC’s Employee Health team has worked countless hours over the past two years managing employee COVID symptom screenings, exposure reporting, testing, contact tracing, N-95 mask fit testing, vaccination tracking and much more, OMC representatives said.

“They play a vital role in keeping the hospital and clinics safe environments for the people within during the pandemic,” Burkhardt said.

Burkhardt and Delplain presented the awards to:

• Employee health supervisor Jon Critchfield

• Employee health nurse Kate Villella

• Bonnie Rathod, employee health nurse at the Front Street Clinic

• Employee health/human resources assistants Steven Canepa, Olivia Due, Angel Shaw and Madison Hiser.

“While each of the responsibilities this team juggles every day are critically important and well managed, what we would like to acknowledge the most is the patience and excellent service the team delivers as they communicate with employees,” Delplain said.