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FRANKLIN RESIDENT RECEIVES NEW ENGLAND SINAI HOSPITAL
2008 COMPASSIONATE CAREGIVER AWARD     

 

STOUGHTON, MA — Brian Mahon, a Franklin resident and Senior Physical Therapist and Center Coordinator for Clinical Education at New England Sinai Hospital, has been chosen as the 2008 recipient of the hospital’s Milton W. Woolfson Compassionate Caregiver of the Year Award. “Compassionate caregiving is at the core of Sinai’s longstanding reputation as a center for pulmonary excellence and complex medical care, and Brian serves as an outstanding role model for the extraordinary care he provides to our patients. He continues Sinai’s mission to provide exceptional care by treating our patients with compassion, dignity and respect,” said Sinai President and CEO Lester P. Schindel.

The Compassionate Caregiver is someone whose approach to providing outstanding medical care to Sinai patients includes an extraordinary capacity for empathy and compassion. Compassionate Caregivers are exceptional in their ability to listen, to comfort and treat patients lovingly and with sensitivity and respect. They seem to have an innate ability to preserve the dignity of the patients in their care, and support them and their families in the most difficult times.

“Brian’s ability to focus on the patient, to be truly present for that individual, provides such a degree of comfort that even the most anxious patient can begin to relax and can be drawn into the therapeutic work that needs to be done,” says his supervisor Davida Haas, PT, DPT, Sinai’s Director of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Services. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, with a B.S. in Physical Therapy, Mahon came to Sinai in 1989. He is a leader and role model in the Physical Therapy Department and is recognized throughout the hospital community as an outstanding clinician, devoted to his patients and respected and admired by his peers. 

Mahon is the third person at Sinai to receive the  Milton W. Woolfson Compassionate Caregiver Award, established in 2006 to convey the hallmark of Sinai patient care and the manner in which it is delivered. The award is named for a gift made to honor the memory of Dr. Milton Woolfson who was a patient at Sinai in 1996-97. Deeply moved by the compassion, warmth and caring her husband received and the support she was provided, his wife Judy felt compelled to help Sinai strengthen its mission. Nominations for the award are submitted by a Sinai employee, physician, patient or family member. All paid hospital staff and members of the medical staff are eligible. The selection committee includes Sinai staff, administration, board, board of advisors and community members.

 

New England Sinai Hospital is a 212-bed, non-sectarian, not-for-profit, long-term acute-care hospital with its main campus in Stoughton, MA and inpatient satellite units at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston and Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester. Recognized as a regional leader in pulmonary and medically complex care, Sinai also offers a wide range of outpatient programs and services.  Sinai is a teaching affiliate of Tufts University School of Medicine.  

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