Centers Health Care Announces the Winner of the 2017 Patient Advocacy Award at the Grand Hyatt in New York City

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Mar 24, 2017, 06:00 ET

BRONX, N.Y., March 24, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Centers Health Care family, one of the largest and most complete post-acute health care continuums in the northeast, announced the recipient of the 2017 Centers Health Care Patient Advocacy Award is Ms. E. Angela Heller.

Gloria Allon, (VP of Business Development, Revival Home Care, Centers For Care), E. Angela Heller, John A. Chabot, MD, FACS, (Surgeon & Executive Director, Pancreas Center, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center), at the First Annual Centers Health Care Patient Advocacy Award in New York, March 23, 2017

Ms. Heller, a Social Worker in the Oncology department at New York Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center for more than three decades, was one of 35 highly experienced social workers nominated for this award. Ms. Heller will receive $2,500, plus a $2,500 check as a gift to the Pancreas Center at the hospital.

"Ms. Heller is a superb social worker with exceptional professional skills and personal qualities," said Martin W. Oster, MD, at Columbia University Medical Center. "My patients have received wonderful, compassionate help, advice from Angela in dealing with the many overwhelming challenges that cancer and its treatment present."

After receiving her Bachelor's Degree in English Language and Literature/Letters from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana in 1980, she received her Master's in Social Work from Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis in 1984. She began her career at the hospital in June 1986.

"I am very honored to be this year's award winner," said Ms. E. Angela Heller. "The pancreas group I facilitate at the hospital has had a profound effect on me. This is a devastating disease and the patients who are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer have shown me the true meaning of love, bravery and resilience."

For more information about the 2017 Centers Health Care Patient Advocacy Award, please visit http://signatureeventsny.com/Pdf/Patient%20Advocacy%20Award%20Invitation.pdf.

About Centers Health Care
Centers Health Care is one of the largest and most complete post-acute health care continuums in the northeast. The Centers Health Care family includes more than 30 skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island, four home care companies, seven adult day health care facilities, two assisted living communities, and CPHL, the third largest MLTC in New York State, along with their own walk-in urgent care and durable medical equipment providers. More than 12,000 dedicated staffers care for the needs of over 5,500 long- and short-term residents throughout the Centers Health Care family.

Contact:
Jeff Jacomowitz, Centers Health Care
(845) 269-2893, [email protected]

SOURCE Centers Health Care