VNA HealthCare nurse wins national honor
Beka Apostolidis, cardiac program manager with VNA HealthCare in Hartford, will be honored in April as the Visiting Nurse Associations of America’s program manager of the year.
Apostolidis, who joined VNA HealthCare in 2003, was selected to receive the national honor for her commitment to achieving the highest standards of clinical excellence in cardiac care.
“Not only is she an effective clinician, manager and colleague, but she has been an invaluable resource for our own nurses and the local medical community. She embodies the significant, sophisticated and vital role that home health care can play in the health care system of the future,” said Kathy Peirce, VNA HealthCare’s vice president of clinical operations.
Apostolidis’ efforts have helped grow the program more than 700 percent over the past seven years, significantly reducing the hospital readmission rate of congestive heart failure patients to well below the state average.Apostolidis also serves as a clinical instructor to University of Connecticut nursing students and serves on the State Review Board of Pharmacology.
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Lamson sings lead on board
By day, Alan Lamson is president and CEO of FLB Architecture & Planning Inc., a full-service architectural and land planning company in East Hartford. But by night, he can be found singing baritone with the Silk City Chorus of Manchester, the Northeast Kingdom Chorus of Lyndon and the senior quartet, Senior Momentum.
Now the he’s been elected president of the board of directors of the international Barbershop Harmony Society based in Nashville.
Throughout the past 30 years, he has actively sung with several other quartets, served as the president of the Manchester chapter and the Northeastern district, and is a charter member of the Lyndon chapter. He is a certified contest administrator for the Barbershop Harmony Society.
Lamson also serves on the board of trustees of Second Congregational Church in Manchester and is a corporator of Manchester Memorial Hospital.
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Sippin honored by Monroe
Over his 81 years, Bernie Sippin has earned more than his share of honors: His alma mater, the University of Connecticut, elected him to the Hall of Fame of its School of Business in 2002; his firm, Sippin Energy Products, was recognized as the Connecticut Family Business of the Year in 1999.
Sippin’s business interests extend to energy, shopping centers and real estate.
And now his neighbors have honored him as Monroe’s outstanding citizen for his contributions to commercial and cultural life of the town. The award is to be presented at the Town Council meeting April 11, preceded by a 7:30 p.m. reception.
“I love this town,” says Sippin, garbed invariably in baseball cap and overalls.
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