Montgomery County Hospital Gets WIA Award

By: Addison Penfield
6/11/2009

          

ASHEBORO—Montgomery Memorial Hospital, a division of First Health of the Carolinas, has been honored for excellence in partnering with the Pee Dee Region Workforce Development Board (WDB) which functions in coordination with Regional Consolidated Services (RCS) of Asheboro.

           

An award to the Troy facility was presented at the WDB’s sixth annual Awards Banquet at the Day’s Inn in Southern Pines recently (Thursday, June 4). Two individual participants…Jacqueline R. Clark and Vickie Davis…also were cited for excellence by the Montgomery board.

 

Montgomery, Moore and Richmond counties comprise the Pee Dee Region of the overall

Workforce Investment Act (WIA) program which RCS administers from its Asheboro offices. The Workforce Development Board for the Region selected Montgomery Memorial for the award after the hospital was nominated by the Montgomery County JobLink Career Center.

           

Montgomery Memorial, now employing more than 170 employees, has provided medical services to the people of Montgomery county for more than 50 years. The award salutes the hospital’s leadership in community affairs and its steadfast partnership with its local chamber of Commerce as well as with Montgomery Community College where it offers the successful Patient Navigator class.

           

The hospital has acknowledged the quality of  graduates by hiring several of them.

           

The June 4 banquet in Southern Pines was keynoted by Kelly Swanson, award-winning storyteller, author and motivational speaker. A warmly-received Swanson entertained the gathering with the one-woman show she created entitled “Who Hijacked My Fairy Tale,” based on thesis of hanging on to humor “when life doesn’t go the way you planned.”

           

Established by an Act of Congress, the Workforce Development Program implemented by RCS is coordinated from Asheboro by Director Linda Parker. In addition to the three-county Pee Dee Region, employers and employees are served in a Regional Partnership Local Area which embraces Alamance, Orange and Randolph counties. An awards banquet for Regional Partnership individuals and employers will be held in Burlington July 16.

           

Regional Consolidated Services is a private, non-profit human services agency with programs in 11 North Carolina counties. It is celebrating the 30^th anniversary of its founding this year.