{"id":142831,"date":"2021-05-12T22:54:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T03:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=142831"},"modified":"2021-05-12T22:55:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T03:55:21","slug":"vw-health-head-lauds-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/05\/12\/vw-health-head-lauds-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Health president praises staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>To the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week Van Wert Health joins thousands of hospitals across the country in celebrating National Hospital Week (May 9-15), which is an annual opportunity to recognize the incredible contributions of everyone who works in our hospital, physicians\u2019 offices, and clinics. We have nearly 600 employees &#8212; from technology specialists, administrators, social workers, and registrars to physicians, nurses, therapists, environmental services, and food and nutrition &#8212; who work 24\/7 to provide the best possible care for patients.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I reflect on the past 14 months, one thing is for certain: there is no way we could have navigated our COVID journey without the dedication of our hard-working employees. They showed up each and every day and I couldn\u2019t be more proud of them. It&#8217;s amazing that even at the height of the COVID pandemic, we were able to move into the new inpatient and surgical facilities on-time and under budget.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a regular basis, I receive letters from our patients or hear stories about how one of our staff members treated a patient like they were their own family member or took extra time to be a listening ear to a person who needed comforted.&nbsp; These stories make me grateful to be part of a team with so much compassion and commitment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To all of the staff at Van Wert Health who have heard the call and followed your heart to work in health care, I honor you.&nbsp;May God bless you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With sincere gratitude,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jim Pope<\/strong><br><strong>President and CEO<\/strong><br><strong>Van Wert Health\u00a0<\/strong><br><em>via email<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: This week Van Wert Health joins thousands of hospitals across the country in celebrating National Hospital Week (May 9-15), which is an annual opportunity to recognize the incredible contributions of everyone who works in our hospital, physicians\u2019 offices, and clinics. We have nearly 600 employees &#8212; from technology specialists, administrators, social workers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 09:46:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}