Family Owned Business Awards finalists
Delaware Business Times announced the 13 finalists for the inaugural Delaware Family Owned Business Awards event to be held this month.
The finalists include; A.R. Morris Jewelers, Data Management Internationale’, Delaware Brick, DiFebo’s Restaurant & Deli, EDiS, Janssen’s Market LLC, Joseph Frederick and Sons, M. Davis & Sons Inc., Pettinaro Companies, Pools and Spas Unlimited, The Insurance Market Inc., Urban Furniture Outlet and Wayman Fire Protection Inc.
“The 13 honorees for our inaugural awards ceremony represent Delaware companies that demonstrate excellence in family involvement, business success and commitment to employees, customers and community,” said Michael J Mika, executive editor. “The judges had their work cut out selecting the top awards in each category.”
Award honors Sonnad
A recognition program launched this year to coincide with the 20th year of The American Journal of Managed Care will be named the Seema S. Sonnad Emerging Leader in Managed Care Research Award.
The award will honor the journal’s longtime associate editor, who died of a cardiac arrhythmia she suffered while running an ultramarathon May 27, in Washington State.
Seema S. Sonnad, PhD, 52, was the co-director of the Value Institute at Christiana Care Health System of Wilmington, which offered her the opportunity to apply her knowledge of health care systems to real-world settings.
Her varied, multi-disciplinary career had focused on the evaluation of medical services, but her personal interests had always involved teaching and mentoring up-and-coming leaders in the field, especially young women.
For more than a year, she had been among the members of the AJMC editorial board advocating for a program to recognize emerging leaders in the field of managed care. She had been scheduled to take part in the selection of the first finalists and, ultimately, the winner.
Three finalists will be invited to a celebration of 20 years of The American Journal of Managed Care, to be held October 28, in Orlando, FL.
Nemours honored by U.S. News
Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children has been recognized again by U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) for being among the Best Children’s Hospitals in the nation in the 2015-16 edition of Best Children’s Hospitals.
In the latest rankings, duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, was ranked in eight of the ten surveyed specialties. Five of the specialties included in the 2015-16 list improved their ranking from last year, including orthopedics which once again ranked in the top five.
