Return to Main Menu

UMA honors employees with quarterly award University Medical Associates (UMA) employees are regularly nominated by patients, employees, co-workers for the medical center's Applause program for their excellence and meritous acts.  Each quarter, a UMA committee selects winners from Applause award entries. That person receives a 14K gold-filled Medical University College of Medicine pin, framed Applause award document, $50 gift certificate and cake to share with co-workers.  The quarterly award recipients are Kat Sanford, training; Faith Butler, customer service; Annie Coulter, finance; Barbara Eaton, corporate information systems; and Chris George, UMA information systems. Sanford was nominated by other MUSC employees. Some of the comments from the nominations included: “Kat Sanford has been very helpful to my area since the go-live date in IDX. Kat assisted when she could in contacting the necessary area and either obtaining the information for the nominator or just went ahead and took care of it. Kat doesn’t ever worry about whether it falls under her job duties.” Another nomination read: “I am nominating Kat because she is always willing to help anyone who needs her. I have only been at UMA for a short time, but it is people like Kat who make my job and work environment a wonderful place.” Butler was nominated by her co-workers. They stated: “If you looked up ‘model employee’ in the dictionary you would see Faith’s picture. Not only does Faith demonstrate the AREA values, Faith also serves as a source of real inspiration to her fellow co-workers. Faith  is always willing to assist both patients and co-workers, and does it all with a smile. UMA is fortunate to have Faith on staff.” Coulter, an employee with UMA for more than 30 years, was also nominated by a co-worker for her dedication. The nomination reads, in part: “Annie is a hard worker who has dedicated her career life to the organization. Annie is nearing retirement in the next few months and I wanted to thank her for her dedication, friendship and co-workership.  Annie has helped me in many a moment with work questions as well as personally.  She is always  smiling, laughing and cracking jokes.” Eaton was nominated for creating a query and then a program that consolidated three individual companies books into one consolidated statement. This has saved the organization many hours and ultimately, dollars. It has decreased the margin of error due to manual calculations that were eliminated due to this program.  She is truly an asset to the information systems department of corporate. George was nominated for his hard work and effort in planning for and implementing the new IDX system. In part, the nomination stated: “His knowledge, skill, expertise, and experience were extremely valuable and key to the transition. We couldn't have done it without him.”   Friday, Jan. 7, 2005 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.