14 JAX AIR NEWS, NASJACKSONVILLE, Thursday, April 23, 2009


Naval Hospital Jax


Civilians of the Year


exemplify lead(
By Loren Barnes provider to deliver this spe-
NH Jax Public Affairs cific care. This care com-
 prised over 25 percent of
N aval Hospital the entire recorded October
 Jacksonville 2008 production, valued at
 Commanding $26,874.
Officer Capt. Bruce In addition, she initiated
Gillingham recognized and completed a much need-
three outstanding staff ed general supply inventory
members March 27 for and reorganized the supply
exemplary leadership storeroom, allowing rapid,
resulting in their selection accurate visual inventory
as the 2008 Civilians of the reviews.
Year and Contractor of the Lee Grose, a social work-
Year representing the hos- er in the NH Jax Substance
pital and its seven Navy Abuse and Rehabilitation
Branch Health Clinics Program (SARP), located
(NBHC). aboard the hospital cam-
 Kimberly Hanniford, a pus at NAS Jacksonville,
dental assistant at NBHC was named the Category II
Albany, Ga., was selected Civilian of the Year.
as the 2008 Category I "I was definitely thrilled
Civilian of the Year. In an and honored," Grose said.
interview with Southwest "I believe everything I do is
Georgia's Fox 31, Hanniford a reflection of the team we
said, "I just put my best have here in the SARP."
foot forward and strive for In the third quarter
excellence in my personal of 2008, Grose assumed
life as well as profession- an additional 153 patient
ally. When I took this job, encounters and many hours
I thought it would be an of case management on
opportunity to serve our behalf of 34 patients after
patients here but also part they completed alcohol
of it is serving our country." rehabilitation.
 Capt. William Butt of He also improved over-
NBHC Albany said of all patient care at SARP
Hanniford, "Nothing falls by integrating the best of
through the cracks when Navy Medicine's "Living in
Hanniford is on duty." Balance" program into the
 For instance, she became clinic's continuing care pro-
the primary support for a gram. And he spearheaded
visiting dental officer when integration of patient feed-
the regularly assigned back into SARP's clinical
dentist was temporarily and administrative prac-
assigned duty elsewhere, tices.
empowering the dentist to At the same time, Grose
meet normal production became licensed as a clini-
targets. cal social worker, enabling
 She even took on fabricat- the command to gain a
ing stone casts and custom licensed independent prac-
trays to allow the interim titioner without additional


ership
 cost.
 Lori Sipka, Lead Third
 Party Billing Agent for
 the Resource Management
 Directorate, took the
 Category III Contractor
 honors.
 Sipka, who is contracted
 through Lockheed Martin,
 said she sees this is as rec-
 ognition of all eight mem-
 bers of the Third Party
 Billing team. Her award
 focused on the fact that she
 led a team that netted the
 largest increase by dollars
 for third party insurance
 billing collections DoD-
 wide.
 The team saved taxpayers
 almost $3 million through
 this program last year. "I'm
 just thrilled that all our
 hard work has been recog-
 nized," Sipka said.
 She specifically sin-
 gled out the following co-
 workers on her team:
 Christina Cunningham,
 Erin Forsberg, Patricia
 Hampton, Patricia Lafata,
 Mamie Moore, Pamela
 Mosley and Jolene Yoon.


 Kimberly Hanniford Lee Grose Lori Sipka
Category I Civilian of the Category II Civilian of the Category III Contractor of
 Year Year the Year

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