Starfish Awards Resume
Nominations are again being accepted for the Starfish Award, keeping with the
spirit of recognizing colleagues throughout the institution for their exceptional
emotional support toward patients, families, and staff. The award returns with
new criteria, a new selection process and a quarterly recognition ceremony.
The award now recognizes patient care staff who consistently exemplify:
• Caring: the art of feeling interest and concern about
patient care;
• Respect: the act of giving particular attention;
• Advocacy: representing patient’s needs and desires
when they cannot do it for themselves;
• Compassion: sympathetic understanding of patient distress
along with the desire to make it better; or
• Mentoring: displaying behaviors worth imitating, acting
as a role model and offering guidance.
To nominate a colleague, visit www.bwhpikenotes.org
and look for Awards/Recognition under “About BWH” on the main menu
bar. Hard copies of the nomination form are all available in the Bretholtz Center.
Email BWHStarfishCommittee@partners.org
with any questions.