Kelly Lee Receives Culture Champion Nomination

 

Kelly Lee, RN, and was recently nominated for the SMCH Culture Champion Award. The Culture Champion Award is reserved for employees who model SMCH values by consistently going above and beyond for our patients and team members.

Her anonymous nominator said this:

"In healthcare, it can be rare to encounter extraordinary nurses. How excellent and valuable is Kelly? Journeying through the years through the profession, one finds there are many different nurses with many different hearts. Kelly's is striking. It is golden. 

Seldom do you work with leaders as impactful, wise, and as emotionally intelligent. She is a rare, exceptional servant leader, with a heart for service no nursing school or learning module could ever teach. It is speculated it stems from her rich life experience, and the paths and journey she was led to walk, compassionately caring for and carrying others.

Unfortunately, a bleak reality of nursing is that it can also be a very savage profession, with rampant, systemic lateral violence in other health systems. There is a great burden, an emotional, psychological toll that batters even the experienced. What additionally makes Kelly exceptional is that she has the powerful ability to recognize, champion and nurture those subjected to it, and (possibly unbeknownst to her) give them a sense of healing and belonging. 

She is a beautiful person. She assesses your needs as a coworker in a truly caring way. It is her frequent trait to offer help before it is asked of her. Her patients love her, as do her coworkers. She epitomizes SMCH values; it is how she lives and who she is. There is no request too burdensome, no conversation too unimportant, no question too trivial. With this attitude and wisdom, with her teamwork and leadership, notably, lives have been saved at SMCH. For these and other reasons, she exemplifies the SMCH values of teamwork, “Stewart”ship, communication, safety, and most excellently, compassionate service."

Congratulations, Kelly - we are lucky to have you on our team!