Meet Allison Adrian, a senior medical assistant at Swedish Plastis and Aesthetics. Allison is the recipient if ths year's Nils Johanson Award for Excellence. From the entire Providence Swedish commuity, congratulations Allison.
Every year, Providence Swedish recognizes the invaluable work of our caregivers with the Nils Johanson Inspirational Awards. The awards are named for Swedish's founder, Nils Johanson, and are given to caregivers who exemplify our core values of integrity, dignity, excellence, justice, compassion and safety. Caregivers are nominated by their peers and supervisors.
We'd like you to meet Allison Adrian, a senior medical assistant at Swedish Plastics and Aesthetics (SPA), and this year's winner of the Nils Johanson Award for Excellence. Allison's warmth, commitment and skill are admired by her colleagues and patients alike, and on many occasions she is the go-to in urgent situations, like when a pregnant patient's water broke in the clinic. She asked immediately for Allison.
"Allison makes every patient feel heard and seen. She makes them feel like a person, not like a number," says Katelin Cunningham, clinic manager at SPA. "That's really hard to do in the complex world of health care."
"I love working for Swedish Plastics and Aesthstics and I love the surgeons," says Allison. "I'm very honored to have received this award. To me, excellence means coming to work every day with a smile on your face and giving it your best. You never know what our patients are going through, so I feel like being there with them and being a part of their journey is the best thing ever."
Watch the video to learn more about Allison and why she is such an important part of the team at SPA and the Providence Swedish family.
About Providence Swedish
Providence Swedish has served the Puget Sound region since the first Providence hospital opened in Seattle in 1877 and the first Swedish hospital opened in 1910. The two organizations affiliated in 2012 and today comprise the largest health care delivery system in Western Washington, with 22,000 caregivers, eight hospitals and 244 clinics throughout Western Washington – from Everett to Centralia. A not-for-profit family of organizations, Providence Swedish provides more than $545 million in community benefit in the Puget Sound region each year. The health system offers a comprehensive range of services and specialty and subspecialty care in a number of clinical areas, including cancer, cardiovascular health, neurosciences, orthopedics, digestive health and women’s and children’s care. For more information, visit providence.org/swedish.
