All three recipients have personal and professional ties to Ashland City.
The annual award, named after HCA Founder Dr. Thomas F. Frist Sr., recognizes one volunteer, one doctor and one employee at each HCA-affiliated facility who has exhibited exceptional care for patients and for the community in which they serve.
“Ms. Miller, Dr. Anderson, and Ms. Orange consistently demonstrate their selfless commitment and passion for helping patients at TriStar Centennial and Ashland City, while also helping people in their communities or around the world,” said Thomas Herron, CEO of TriStar Centennial. “Their spirits of humanitarianism are an inspiration to us all and their commitment to quality, compassionate care is representative of our entire Centennial team.”
Faye started at TriStar Centennial Center for the Treatment of Obesity after retiring from Centennial at Ashland City. She averages twenty hours a month assisting human resources and supporting special events including blood drives, disaster drills and special mailings and has about 800 hours of volunteer service in total.
Dr. "Reggie" Anderson was recognized for his twenty-five years of commitment to providing and expanding healthcare access in Ashland City. In 1986, Reggie was only the third doctor in the National Health Services Core's then under-served rural area of Cheatham County.
Today his office space is now a hospital and he has since opened a clinic in Kingston Springs housing a family practice, dentist office, physical therapy clinic and a pharmacy.
In addition, Reggie still finds time to make rounds at local hospitals, nursing homes and even to make house calls.
Kaye Orange has dedicated her life to providing healthcare globally as well as to the Ashland City community. She began her nursing career in Africa, Fiji and then Hawaii until she finally settled in Cheatham County.
While still a registered nurse in the surgical and emergency department with Centennial at Ashland City, she has continued her volunteer work abroad with helping a Texas hospital in a hurricane emergency and then assisting in Haiti during its devastating earthquake in 2010.
Also in Haiti, Orange facilitated a patient’s travels and donated lifesaving medical services with her former United States-based mission connections and welcomed the patient into her home until the patient was healthy enough to return to Haiti.
"Faye, Reggie and Kaye have touched the lives of countless patients, visitors, community members and co-workers near and far,” said Darrell White, administrator of Centennial Medical Center at Ashland City. “We are incredibly proud of our Ashland City team members being selected to receive this prestigious award among all of the Centennial nominees.”
Each Centennial recipient will be nominated for national award consideration.
National recipients will be honored during a May ceremony at HCA Headquarters in Nashville.