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Fleming County Hospital Names 2022 Mercy Award Winner
June 30, 2022
Flemingsburg, KY (June 28, 2022) – Fleming County Hospital recently announced that Sandra (Sandy) Maze, has been recognized as the facility’s 2022 Mercy Award winner. The Mercy Award recognizes one employee from each of LifePoint Health’s facilities who profoundly touches the lives of others and best represents the spirit and values on which the company was founded.
The Mercy Award is an annual recognition program established in 2002 to honor the life and contributions of Scott Mercy, LifePoint’s founding chairman and chief executive officer. The award is considered the highest honor a LifePoint employee can receive.
“At Fleming County Hospital, we share LifePoint’s commitment to making communities healthier, and we recognize this is supported by the good work and service of our employees on and off the job,” said Joe Koch, CEO of Fleming County Hospital. “We are extremely proud to recognize Sandy for her efforts on behalf of our patients and our community. She goes above and beyond each and every day to ensure that every person she encounters receives the highest level of care and compassion.”
Sandy has a direct impact with quality patient care. She helps to ensure each patient receives excellent care. Sandy is caring and compassionate and has a true love for Fleming County and Fleming County Hospital and the service it provides to the community. She selflessly gives of herself both at work and in the community all the while facing many challenges in her own life. She is dedicated to her community by bringing awareness of the Donate a Life foundation and led our hospital in the celebration and awareness of organ donation. Sandy has worked with numerous Cystic Fibrosis events and leads in many ways through public promotion and private conversations. She volunteered her time for the Shop with a Trooper, taking children shopping for an experience they will not forget. Sandy works and supports others in our community by working through her faith. She attends and volunteers at her local church helping others in her church community and family. She makes life a little easier with laughter, words of encouragement and tears of compassion.
Each hospital winner, including Sandy, will be considered for LifePoint’s 2022 companywide Mercy Award. The companywide winner will be announced this summer and honored during a ceremony in Nashville, Tenn., in August, to which Sandy and all facility winners are invited to attend.
About Fleming County Hospital
Fleming County Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital that has provided care and services to residents of the Buffalo Trace region for over 60 years. Centrally located in Fleming County, our facility, which was rebuilt in 2008 and acquired by LifePoint Health in 2015, features private rooms for acute care and swing bed services, operating rooms, imaging, and other outpatient services, as well as an Emergency Department. With approximately 100,000 sq. ft., it serves residents of Fleming and surrounding counties and employs nearly 100 staff members all dedicated to the wellness of our region. Fleming County Hospital’s reputation as an organization with a Culture of Safety, continuous quality improvement, patient-centered care, and professionalism has allowed it to maintain its accreditation with The Joint Commission, receive Chest Pain Accreditation through the American College of Cardiology, and achieve designation as a LifePoint Health National Quality Leader. For more information, visit FlemingCountyHospital.com.