2022 Honoring Excellence Awards Winners
Honoring Excellence is LeadingAge Illinois’ member award program that recognizes individuals and organizations that put quality first, deliver excellence and inspire others to do the same. If you are a LeadingAge Illinois member provider and have an exceptional staff person or are an organization with a stellar program deserving of recognition – we encourage you to consider submitting a nomination when the next awards nomination period opens for 2023.
AWARDS: There are four individual awards and one organization award.
Heart and Hands Award
This award is given to an individual who embraces person centered care/service through
efforts that go beyond those normally considered within the position’s job description. The individual demonstrates
exceptional relationships with residents/clients that provides special enrichment, increases quality of life to the residents/
clients, and recognizes and responds to the residents/clients needs and values. This individual recognizes opportunities
to create personalized experiences and acts on those opportunities creating an enhanced experience for the residents/
clients.
Heart & Hands Frontline Award
Winner - Janny Flores, Belmount Village Buffalo Grove
Heart & Hands Frontline Award
Winner - Samten 'Sam' Wangmo, The Selfhelp Home
Heart & Hands Management Award
Winner - Vivian Salvador, King-Bruwaert House
Heart & Hands Management Award
Winner - Christine Thompson, Greenfield Home
Strive and Thrive Award
This award is given to an individual who demonstrates an extraordinary commitment to
excellence. Through innovation and/or creative thinking, the individual has produced or created a result that is a direct
benefit to the residents/clients or the organization. This award recognizes vision, initiative and creative problem solving.
Strive & Thrive Frontline Award
Winner - Anna Rosalez, The Oaks at Bartlett Senior Living
Strive & Thrive Frontline Award
Winner - Randy Hauser, Clark-Lindsey
Strive & Thrive Management Award
Winner - Angela Jalloh, The Admiral at the Lake
Strive & Thrive Management Award
Winner - Michael Trench, King-Bruwaert House
Leadership in Action Award
This award is given to an individual whose actions and leadership greatly enhance the work environment and the quality of life for their colleagues and residents/clients. The individual’s accomplishments demonstrate a commitment to a team approach and excellence in the workplace. This collaborative style of leadership has resulted in trusting and respectful relationships with their team and high levels of resident/client satisfaction. (Management staff only)
Leadership In Action Award
Winner - Phil King, Lutheran Hillside Village
Leadership In Action Award
Winner - Terri Bowen, King-Bruwaert House
Rising Star Award
Rising Star Frontline Award
Winner - Dallyce Wallace, Covenant Living at Windsor Park
Rising Star Frontline Award
Winner - Paul Deboo, The Oaks at Bartlett Senior Living
Rising Star Management Award
Winner - Gayle Hantak, Meridian Village
Rising Star Management Award
Winner - R.J. Zielinski, The Admiral at the Lake
Community Impact Award
This award is given to an organization for participation in outreach to the greater
community beyond the organization’s own walls or core mission. The organization shall have created or participated in a
program/effort that has had a positive impact on both the community at-large and the organization. The action(s) taken
by the organization measurably met a community need and demonstrates the organization’s role as a contributing
member of their local community.
Examples: Intergenerational programs, community education efforts, donation of facility resources for community use,
outreach to at-risk youth, resident-led volunteer service projects or any voluntary activities designed to address local
community needs, etc.