2007 Leadership of the Year
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Jill Benford, RN, Cardiovascular Services Director
Jill is charismatic, passionate and consistently goes above and beyond the call of duty to drive high-quality patient care.
She embodies the characteristics of this award by fostering teamwork, communication and collaboration across departments and between colleagues and physicians as demonstrated by consistently achieving high employee, physician and patient satisfaction scores. It is quite common for even one of our more challenging physicians to pay Jill a compliment for a job well done, even pulling a senior team member aside to acknowledge her for her effort and fortitude.
Jill persists in raising the performance of our organization. She is always looking for, suggesting, and implementing ways we can do better across Brandon Regional. She not only has a strong clinical acumen, but is an exceptional teacher and mentor. She shares her gifts with others and has a knack for describing complex clinical processes to an "average Joe." She is a person with tenacity. She is absolutely committed to "getting the job done" and does so with a positive attitude. She is dedicated and accountable and certainly incorporates "play" in her work. Her laugh is contagious and frequent and is held in high esteem by the employees, colleagues, physicians, and senior team members.
Jill is recognized for her numerous contributions to our facility, and her inspiration to patients and employees alike. As one of the true "daughters" of the organization, we are proud of her and all of her accomplishments as she has grown up with and through the ranks of the hospital over the last twenty-some odd years.
Congratulations, Jill, as the Leadership of the Year award recipient!