Women’s Health Council of RI seeking nominees for innovation award

PROVIDENCE – Nominations are being accepted for the Karen Rosene Montella M.D. Spark Award for Innovation in Women’s Health in RI. The award recognizes an individual or organization providing innovative services, processes or programs that improve the health of women of all ages in Rhode Island.

Named for Montella, senior vice president of women’s services and clinical integration at Lifespan, the award focuses on health and socioeconomic disparities in the community. It acknowledges efforts to remove barriers to care or expand access to existing care centers, link providers in care delivery and coordination and engage patients and the community. Montella, also professor and vice chair of medicine and director of obstetric medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, helped establish the Women’s Health Council of RI in 2008 and has served as its only chair.

“We have no shortage in Rhode Island of compassionate providers working hard every day to ensure a broad spectrum of women receive high-quality, comprehensive care,” Dr. Peg Miller, director of Lifespan’s Women’s Medicine Collaborative and co-chair of the Women’s Health Council of RI, said in a statement. “Through this award, we’d like to call attention to those committed providers for their valued contributions to raising the bar on women’s health in our state.”

Any individual or organization caring for the social, medical and behavioral health of girls and/or women in Rhode Island may be nominated, including direct caregivers, payers or policy-makers working in institutions or the community such as educators, public health professionals or social service providers. Individuals may nominate themselves or others. Email completed applications to Krystal Branco at kbranco@lifespan.org before Oct. 1.

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For more information, visit www.womenshealthcouncil.org or contact Branco at
kbranco@lifespan.org or (401) 793-7382.

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