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Winchester Hospital Board Members Paul J. Andrews and Jane C. Walsh Receive Trustee Excellence in Leadership Award from Massachusetts Hospital Association
Winchester, Mass. – Winchester Hospital board members Paul J. Andrews of Woburn and Jane C. Walsh of Winchester received the Trustee Excellence in Leadership Award from the Massachusetts Hospital Association during the organization’s recent annual meeting in Chatham.
In nomination letters, Andrews and Walsh were repeatedly referred to as a “dynamic duo” for their complementary skills: Andrews’ political savvy coupled with Walsh’s financial acumen. Andrews and Walsh are chair and vice chair, respectively, of Winchester Hospital’s Board of Directors.
“Paul and Jane’s dedication to Winchester Hospital is exemplary,” wrote Gloria Korta, MD, president of the Medical & Allied Healthcare Professional Staff at Winchester Hospital. “I greatly admire their unwavering quest to do the right thing in all circumstances. Their support drives the mission of the hospital, which is to provide the highest quality health care to residents in the communities we proudly serve.”
Alan Macdonald, executive director of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, has long served alongside Andrews and Walsh on numerous boards of directors. “I have born witness to their strong leadership and success in local health care and statewide efforts,” Macdonald wrote. “Through the years, I have observed in awe the remarkable devotion that both Paul and Jane have to their respective communities.”
Andrews has been chairman of Winchester Hospital’s Board of Directors for 10 years. He also serves as chairman of the hospital’s Executive, Nominating and Joint Conference (Quality) committees. In addition to his service at Winchester Hospital, Andrews has made significant contributions to the statewide effort to improve health care for all, working to move key legislation forward on behalf of community hospitals and all residents of the Commonwealth. He is a dedicated member of the Massachusetts Hospital Association, currently serving on the organization’s Board of Directors, Trustee Care! and Trustee Advisory Council.
Andrews is also involved in education at the local and state level. As a member of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, he was instrumental in passing the Education Reform Act of 1993, which revolutionized the role of school administrators and brought accountability to a whole new level with the advent of MCAS testing. A former teacher, Andrews left his 14-year post as school superintendent for the Woburn Public Schools to become director of professional development and government relations for the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, a role he has held since 1994. He serves as a board member on the Professional Certification Review Board of the Massachusetts Department of Education and is the founder and president of the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Project Alliance Partnerships for Youth.
With more than 35 years in banking, Walsh is president and co-founder of Northmark Bank in North Andover. In addition to her role as vice chair of Winchester Hospital’s Board of Directors, she is chair of the hospital’s Finance and Executive Compensation committees and a member of the Audit and Compliance, Nominating and Joint Conference (Quality) committees.
In the Greater Boston community, Walsh is a trustee and former chair of the Board of Trustees at Merrimack College; a Finance Committee member at St. Mary’s Parish in Winchester; director and Executive Committee member of the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce; and a member of the Greater Lawrence YWCA’s Advisory Council. She is a former chair of the Board of Massachusetts Bankers Association and former board member of the Massachusetts Hospital Association and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
As chair of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable’s Health Care Task Force, Walsh provides guidance for the Commonwealth in areas including consumer-driven health care policies and the uncompensated care pool. Under her leadership, the task force ushered the 2006 Health Insurance Individual Mandate through the legislature, a critical step toward health care reform in Massachusetts. Walsh and other members of the task force also participate in the Massachusetts Advisory Committee on Cost and Quality.
Jointly, Andrews and Walsh were instrumental in securing a $50,000 grant awarded to Winchester Hospital by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in February to participate in the Trustee Advantage program designed to help hospitals advance quality and safety improvements. Winchester Hospital was just one of five hospitals in Massachusetts to receive the award.
Also during their tenure, Winchester Hospital became the first community hospital in Massachusetts to earn Magnet recognition – the highest honor for excellence in nursing – from the American Nurses Credentialing Center in 2003. Winchester Hospital was re-designated with this prestigious recognition in 2008. Last year, Winchester Hospital was ranked No. 2 in the nation in the Hospital Value Index’s category of the 100 Best Value Hospitals released by Data Advantage, LLC, a national healthcare information and rating organization.
Most recently, Winchester Hospital was recognized by Premier, Inc., a North Carolina-based healthcare alliance, as a recipient of its 2009 Premier Award for Quality for outstanding patient care and clinical excellence. Earlier this month, Winchester Hospital was named by the Boston Business Journal as the No. 1 Best Place to Work in Massachusetts for excellence in employee satisfaction, working conditions and company culture. Winchester Hospital is the first large company to win the coveted No. 1 spot two years in a row, and is one of only four companies to be recognized all seven years of the program’s existence. Additionally, Winchester Hospital was named No. 1 on the Boston Globe’s debut 100 Top Places to Work ’08 recognizing the most progressive companies in the state based on employee opinions about company leadership, compensation and training, diversity and inclusion, career development, family-friendly flexibility and values and ethics.
About Winchester Hospital
Winchester Hospital is the first community hospital in Massachusetts to earn Magnet recognition, the American Nurses Association’s highest honor for nursing excellence. As the northwest suburban Boston area’s leading provider of comprehensive health care services, the 229-bed facility provides care in general, bariatric and vascular surgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, oncology, gastroenterology, rehabilitation, radiation oncology, pain management, obstetrics/gynecology and a Level IIB Special Care Nursery. Winchester Hospital has clinical affiliations with several nationally recognized hospitals in the region, including Children’s Hospital Boston, Tufts Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. To learn more, visit www.winchesterhospital.org. |
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