Mott, Wheeler Recognized as Health Care Heroes by Hartford Business Journal
The Mott Corporation of Farmington is a 2017 Hartford Business Journal "Health Care Heroes" award winner for their work partnering with Wheeler in communities across Central Connecticut. The recognition was presented at a lunchtime ceremony at the Hartford Marriott Downtown on Thursday, December 7; the Journal's Health Care Heroes award highlights outstanding leaders in the health care industry across a range of categories.
Wheeler Clinic President and CEO Susan Walkama, LCSW, and Wheeler as an organization, were named award finalists at the same award event as well.
A full story about Mott and Wheeler will appear in the December 11th print issue of Hartford Business Journal and online on December 8.
Earlier in November, at a Leadership Greater Hartford breakfast highlighting the partnership (related link), Mott CEO Boris Levin said that working with Wheeler has generated both tangible and intangible business results for the company and its several hundred employees, more than a quarter of whom have directly volunteered at a Wheeler event in the last two years as a “Mott Health Ambassador.” Improved employee satisfaction surveys have been one consistent benchmark, but the intangible benefits are also real and profound. Many of Mott’s volunteer projects have involved addiction services at Wheeler. These have included community forums on opioids, helping family members who have lost loved one to addiction create a “Remembrance Quilt,” or participating in the 2017 CCAR Recovery Walk in Hartford.
With Mott’s support, Wheeler also added a full-time community health outreach worker, Bristol resident Lisbeth Barreto, who uses a peer-based education model to engage families in culturally and linguistically responsive health care services, including those provided at Wheeler’s Family Health & Wellness Centers in New Britain and Bristol. The community health worker model builds on the belief that community members are experts in their own lives and in their own communities, and harnesses local expertise, relationships and trust to improve engagement in primary and preventative care, chronic disease management and patient education and advocacy.
