November 8, 2004

Jameson’s Maternity Care Center Receives Recognition Award

New Castle, PA - Jameson Hospital’s Maternity Care Center (MCC) nurses are smiling even brighter since they received a Johnson’s Childbirth Nursing Awards Certificate of Recognition celebrating the care they brought to two grateful patients and their families.  The families anonymously nominated the hospital’s childbirth nursing team for a Johnson’s Childbirth Nursing Award by submitting a 100-word essay about their care. 

The Johnson’s Childbirth Nursing Awards, in partnership with the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), invited patients everywhere to say thank you to their childbirth nursing team. This Certificate of Recognition means that a patient has nominated the MCC nursing team at Jameson Hospital for this award. It also means that MCC could capture a $1000 educational grant and two reservations for the AWHONN convention.  “With two awards, we have two times the chance of winning,” commented Lori Fombelle, R.N., BSN, Patient Care Manager of the Jameson Maternity Care Center.

Patients from all over the country were invited to say thank you to their childbirth team by nominating them to win this award. “I am truly honored,” said Lori Fombelle. “We have a wonderful staff here at MCC, and this award demonstrates just how much our patients appreciate all of the staff’s hard work and dedication.”

“We are so happy to know we are being recognized for doing our jobs. What a nice surprise,” commented Fombelle.  A certificate from Johnson noting the nomination and recognizing the hospital’s “care and support to mothers and their babies” recently arrived unannounced in the mail.  According to Fombelle, “The certificates and the recognition are nice to have but happy parents, healthy babies and good outcomes are what the childbirth nursing team is all about.  Everybody felt honored and special that these moms took the time to do what they did.”    

“We try to make sure that everyone who wants to be part of the experience can be there and receive the support they need for a good, healthy outcome,” said Fombelle.

Around 500 babies are born at Jameson’s Maternity Care Center every year. Each birth is, as much as possible, a family experience.