Fleming County Hospital names 2016 Mercy Award winner

Fleming County Hospital, which is part of LifePoint Health, recently announced that Joan McGlone has been recognized as the hospital’s 2016 Mercy Award winner. Joan is one of roughly 70 other individuals across LifePoint Health, a leading healthcare company that employs more than 46,000 individuals, to receive this award.

The annual Mercy Award program was established in 2002 to honor the life of Scott Mercy, LifePoint’s founding chairman and chief executive officer (CEO). It recognizes one employee from each of LifePoint’s 72 healthcare facilities, and the Health Support Center based in Brentwood, Tenn., who profoundly touches the lives of others and best represents the spirit and values on which the company was founded. The Mercy 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 realize that the hard work and dedication of our employees is critical to our success,” said Lynda Skaggs, Interim CEO of Fleming County Hospital. “Every day, Joan goes above and beyond to demonstrate a level of care and compassion that we want every person who enters our facilities to experience. We are extremely proud to recognize Joan for her efforts on behalf of our patients and our community.”

Joan has been employed at Fleming County Hospital as a Registered Nurse since 1975. For the past several years she has worked as a Registered Nurse First Assistant in the Operating Room. In this role she not only is a mentor to nurses, gives guidance and education to Scrub Technicians, but is also the surgeons “right hand”. Joan is also very active in her community and her church. She is a Basic Life Support instructor and teaches classes both in the hospital and the community. Joan is also very dedicated to her family. She has been married to Anthony McGlone for 40 years and they are the parents of 3 sons and 6 grandchildren of which she is very proud. Joan also assists in the care of her mother, Lyla Humphries.

Each hospital winner, including Joan, will be considered for LifePoint’s 2016 company-wide Mercy Award. The company-wide winner will be announced this summer and honored during a special ceremony in Nashville, Tenn., in August, to which Joan and all hospital winners are invited to attend.