SRH CNA of the Year Award nominees are shown at the awards presentation at Chesapeake College, left to right: Amyia Johnson, Taylor Ball, Randall Mills, Chloe Torres, Jaira Miles, Lacy Brown, Taylor Lloyd, Glenda Cornish, Susan Bonwill, Andrew Palmonka, Ann Thrift and Haylee Robinson. Nominees not pictured: Ernest Beasley, Aliyah Dorsey, Jillian Lovett, Eva Ross, Bianca Smith and Hailei Willin.
EASTON, Md. (October 8, 2024) – Glenda Cornish, Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) at UM Shore Regional Health (UM SRH), was recently awarded the Mid Shore Nursing Assistant Advisory Council’s CNA of the Year Award.
“I am honored and thrilled to be selected as CNA of the Year,” said Cornish. “My profession gives me great joy and I’m proud to be recognized for excellence in patient care.”
Cornish has been a CNA for 45 years, 36 of them at UM SRH, a member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System. She is based at UM Shore Emergency Center at Cambridge.
Cornish was chosen from among 23 candidates who were nominated for the annual award by supervisors and peers representing hospital, medical practice, assisted living and Alzheimer’s care, home care and skilled nursing entities in Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties. Nominees are evaluated from criteria that includes patient safety, leadership, teamwork, compassion, professionalism and work ethic.
“We are thrilled that Glenda received this well-deserved award,” said Danielle Wilson, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer for UM SRH. “We are proud to have presented so many wonderful nominees for this year’s awards. This dedicated group of professionals deserves recognition for the essential work they do. I am deeply grateful.”
Cornish was nominated by fellow team member Meghan Thompson, RN, who wrote: “Glenda Cornish is an amazing CNA who goes above and beyond for her ER family and patients every day. She is always willing to help others learn and give them tips and tricks to succeed. I could tell you that she is punctual and that attributes to her professionalism, but she is so much more than that. She is a staple of our community. I cannot tell you how many patients and their families come in and are so relieved when they see Glenda’s smile. I always hear, ‘Hey girl how are you! How is the family?’ Many members of our community remember her from the old hospital and tell their stories about how she cared for them. She is genuinely compassionate and tends to all our patients and their families the same. She treats everyone with respect and dignity. She is a kindhearted, fun, and a true asset to our team. For nurses week this year, she took it upon herself to make and provide the nurses on duty with lunch one day. We are so lucky to have her and appreciate all her hard work.”
Seventeen additional SRH team members were nominated for the award: Taylor Ball, Ernest Beasley, Susan Bonwill, Lacy Brown, Aliyah Dorsey, Amyia Johnson, Jillian Lovett, Taylor Lloyd, Jaira Miles, Randall Mills, Andrew Palmonka, Haylee Robinson, Eva Ross, Bianca Smith, Ann Thrift, Chloe Torres, and Hailei Willin.
About University of Maryland Shore Regional Health
A member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) is the principal provider of comprehensive health care services for more than 170,000 residents of five counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore: Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot. UM SRH consists of approximately 2,000 team members, including more than 600 health care providers on the Medical Staff, who work with community partners to advance the values that are foundational to our mission: Compassion, Discovery, Excellence, Diversity and Integrity. For more information, visit https://www.umms.org/shore.
About the University of Maryland Medical System
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information,visit www.umms.org
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