Spotlight On Health

Welcome to the Worcester Business Journal’s third annual Health Care Heroes supplement.

Within this 16-page supplement, you’ll read the stories of our 2008 honorees, each of whom have contributed significantly to making Central Massachusetts a healthy place to both live and do business.

This year, we selected 12 Health Care Heroes from the more than 40 nominations we received. And it’s a diverse bunch, ranging from a doctors who’s made caring for the region’s poor a priority, to a nurse who’s giving back through the classroom, to a volunteer who’s taken his experience battling cancer and turned it into a mission to find a cure. Each of our honorees’ stories are remarkable and well-worth telling.

Special thanks to this year’s judges, who for the third consecutive year took the time to review the more than 40 nominations we received. They are:

• Dr. Leonard Morse, Worcester’s commissioner of public health

• Judy Tuori, instructor at the graduate school of nursing for UMass

• Peter Martin, attorney at the law firm of Bowditch & Dewey

• Dr. Jan Yost, president and CEO of the Heath Foundation of Central Massachusetts

I would also like to thank Ken St. Onge, a freelance writer and former staff member at the Worcester Business Journal, who wrote the profiles on each of the winners, as well as Ron Bouley and Frederick Peck who took the portraits of each of the honorees.

Please enjoy the profiles of the 2008 Health Care Heroes.

– WBJ Editor Christina H. Davis, cdavis@wbjournal.com

WBJ’s 2008 Health Care Heroes

Corporate Achievement

Kim Harmon, Harmon Home Health

Advancements in Health Care

The STEMI program at UMass Memorial Medical Center

Nurses

Frances P. Foley and Susan F. Bowles, St. Vincent Hospital

Jean Moynihan, Becker College

Physicians

Dr. George Abraham, Central Mass. Independent Physicians Association