Recipients of Business Weekly\'s second-annual Health Care Heroes awards, which honor area doctors, medical professionals, volunteers and health-care and nonprofit organizations, were recognized at an event Sept. 18 and the Landmark Conference and Reception Centre in Fort...

By Cindy Bevington news@fwbusiness.com Jyotin “Joe” Clifford, 29, has a schedule that few would envy: He works a full-time job at Lutheran Hospital as a financial advocate for patients, takes college classes toward a degree in hospital administration and still makes time to...

By Cindy Bevington news@fwbusiness.com Susan Berghoff, a registered nurse in oncology at the Lutheran Cancer Resource Center, was nominated as a medical professional Health Care Hero by a family member of a patient. “Susan is not only an experienced oncology nurse, she is an...

By Cindy Bevington news@fwbusiness.com Ellen Weber was nominated as a Health Care Hero by Ann Blue, volunteer coordinator for Visiting Nurse & Hospice Home in Fort Wayne. Weber, who was on a trip to Scotland when she learned by e-mail that she had won recognition, wrote that her...

By Cindy Bevington news@fwbusiness.com A patient who saw and experienced the kindness and compassion of her doctor nominated Dr. Kathryn Garner as a physician Health Care Hero. “Cancer is something you really don’t ever think you will have to deal with — it always happens...

By Cindy Bevington news@fwbusiness.com For Dr. Teresa Smith, a physician in private practice and the medical director at Faith Community Health Clinic in Angola, the work she does at the clinic is her personal answer to how one person can help others. Faith Community Health Clinic opened...

By Cindy Bevington news@fwbusiness.com In nominating Renee Schiebel as a Health Care Hero, Lauren Caggiano, development coordinator at Community Action of Northeast Indiana, called Schiebel “a gift” to CANI Head Start. CANI Head Start is a free, comprehensive development...

By Cindy Bevington news@fwbusiness.com In nominating Haley Brandenburg, chaplain assistant at Peabody Retirement Community in North Manchester, as a Health Care Hero, the center’s executive assistant, Pam Callahan, wrote that Brandenburg stands out as an example of someone who best...

By Cindy Bevington news@fwbusiness.com The American Red Cross of Northeast Indiana serves 10 counties in Indiana and Ohio with the help of 1,500 volunteers. As the world’s largest humanitarian organization, the Red Cross goes beyond being first on the scene at fires or natural...

By Cindy Bevington news@fwbusiness.com For 27 years, Nancy Miller-Haupert has given her talents, time and vision to pastoral care and grief support in parishes, hospitals, foster-care settings and hospice, spending thousands of hours with thousands of people who have experienced grief and...

By Cindy Bevington news@fwbusiness.com The Community Transportation Network, a nonprofit organization that provides specialized medical transportation primarily in Fort Wayne and Allen County, has provided nearly 100,000 medical trips for seniors and people with all kinds of special needs...

What does Three Rivers do? We’re a full-service landscape company. We offer lawn maintenance with fertilizer application and pest and weed control. We also do landscape design, construction and maintenance as well as snow and ice removal. We get to know our customers and want them to...