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8 HEALTH • Spring 2017 { Pictures of Health } A healing high-five The Wound Care Center at Harrington Hospital in Southbridge has received the Robert A. Warriner III Center of Excellence award by Healogics Inc., the nation's largest provider of advanced wound care services. The Center of Excellence award is reserved for locations that have earned at least two consecutive awards. The Wound Care Center received the Center of Distinction award in 2014 and its first Center of Excellence award in 2015. To be eligible, wound care centers must have a 92-percent patient satisfaction rate and a 91-percent healing rate (in 30 median days to heal). Plentiful plates In addition to creating a food pantry for the Boys & Girls Club of Worcester, Fallon Health also donated $7,500 to help fight childhood hunger in the city. To celebrate, its employees served up a special meal in the club's Kids Café. Pictured, from left, Kimberly Salmon, Emily West, Richard Burke, David Przesiek, Marlene Perno, Kimberly Blanchette and Kevin McGovern. People, places and happenings in Central Massachusetts Prized partners in health Gardner's Heywood Healthcare honored James and Asta Kraskouskas, owners of Anthony's Liquor Mart in Gardner, with the Heywood Healthcare Community Health Hero Award, for their constant support of Heywood initiatives, most notably, the Weekend Backpack Food Program, serving 250 third- and fourth-grade students in the Gardner and Athol-Royalston School Districts. Heywood also honored Clinical & Support Options Inc.., with its Collaborator's Award. Pictured, from left, Win Brown, president and CEO, Heywood Healthcare; Karin Jeffers, CEO, Clinical & Support Options Inc.; and Asta and James Kraskouskas. AFFORDABLE AMBULANCE SERVICE Serving Central MA Dont Tie Up An Emergency Ambulance for Non-Emergency Transport Emergency/Non-Emergency transportation. Class I ambulances and chair vans licensed by Massachusetts. Basic Life Support (BLS). Dedicated and highly trained EMT teams. State-of-the-art communication and life saving equipment on board. • hospitals • skilled nursing facilities • rehabilitation facilities • social services • admissions • discharges WE PROVIDE PATIENT TRANSPORTATION FOR: • transfers • dialysis treatment • cancer treatment • hospice • home health agencies • outpatient appointments • long distance transport • doctors appointments • limited mobility clients • private location appointments • contracts available Most insurance companies accepted K's Ambulance In business since 1985 508.987.2254 • 1.800.461.2822 Patients have rights... the right not to go broke. Their price round trip: $3,844 Our price: $150