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HCP Award Winners Through the Years

Every year, HCP presents its Annual Awards at the HCP Annual Management Conference & Exhibition during the Annual Awards Luncheon. Over the years, many individuals and organizations have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to the home care industry and to HCP. In the interest of maintaining the high standards of the HCP Awards, not all Awards have been awarded every year. Here are past HCP Award recipients that have been recognized by HCP.

Richard Z. Steinhaus Award

The most prestigious Award presented by HCP is the Richard
Z. Steinhaus Award, which is awarded to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the home care industry. This award recognizes someone who is a leader, an expert and advocate for the home care industry who is well versed in Federal or New York State legislative or regulatory issues, and has spoken on behalf of the home care industry in public forums.

Pre 1990:
NYS Assembly Member George Winner Ruby Fisher, Family Aides
Norma Recco, Recco Home Care Service

1990 Richard Z. Steinhaus
1991 Phyllis A.Wang, New York State Association of Health Care Providers
1992 NYS Senator Tarky Lombardi
1993 NYS Assembly Member James Tallon
1994 Maurice Kelly, New York Nursing Care
1995 Edna A. Lauterbach, American Care
1996 Thomas O’Brien, Family Home Care Services of Brooklyn
1997 NYS Senator Michael J. Tully, Jr.
1998 James Pyles, Esq., Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville
1999 Nancy R. Barhydt, Dr., P.H., NYSDOH
2000 James Mahoney, Ulster Home Care
2001 Weingarten & Reid—Robert Reid, Steve Weingarten, Shauneen McNally
2002 Robert P. Dougherty, NYSDOH
2003 Todd Brason, WILLCARE
2004 Joel L. Hodes, Esq., Whiteman Osterman & Hanna
2005 Christine L. Johnston, New York State Association of Health Care Providers
2006 Robert L. Callaghan, New York Nursing Care
2007 Gerald P. Halpern, Esq., Meltzer Lippe, Goldstein, Breitstone
2008 Paula A. Reichel, Community Health Center of St. Mar’s and Nathan Littauer Hospitals
2009 Amy Leshner Thomas
2010 William Dombi, Esq., Director, Center for Health Care Law, National Association for Home Care (NAHC)
2014 Roslyn Wilkins, President, Aides at Home
2015 Bader P. Reynolds, Vice President, CareGivers
2018 Claudia Hammar, New York State Association of Health Care Providers
2020 Gregory Turchan, Premier Home Health Care Services
2023 Gary Carpenter, Gary Carpenter & Associates, Inc.

Edna A. Lauterbach Member of the Year Award

Presented to the HCP Provider or Health-Related Organization member who does the most to promote the interests and objectives of HCP. This award recognizes an HCP member in good standing who has shown dedication and demonstrated excellence in furthering the goals and objectives of HCP, either within the current membership year or over an extended period of time.

1997 Anne-Marie Warda, CareGivers
1998 Robert L. Callaghan, New York Nursing Care
1999 Michael Reda, Aurora Home Care
2000 Lisa Evans, Interim HealthCare
2001 Karen Dargo, All Metro Health Care
2002 Patricia Ferreira, Home Aides of Rockland
2003 Carol Greenberg, Concept: CARE
2004 Margaret McDowell, Bermac Home Aides
2005 Amy Leshner Thomas, Fedcap Home Care
2006 Annette R. Horvath, New York Health Care
2007 Mary Winters, RegionCare Nursing Agency
2008 Sanford H. Katz, Unlimited Care
2009 Taryn Birkmire, Recco Home Care Service
2010 Jennie Cortese, Administrator, WILLCARE
2011 Geri Brooks, Director of Professional Services Westchester Caring Services
2012 Jordan Shames, President & CEO, Neighbors Home Care
2013 Andrea Brown, Vice President, Progressive Home Health Services
2014 Sheila Rabideau, Assistant Executive Director, Home Health Services of Westchester Jewish Community Services
2016 Susan B. Bayerl, Vice President, People, Inc.
2018 Aisha Lucas, Fedcap Home Care
2019 Karen Clark, Home-Health Care Partners
2020 Sasha Guillaume, Mrs. G’s Services
2021 Glenn Lane, Westchester Family Care
2022 David Hogan, Venture Forthe, Inc.
2023 Julian Hagmann, Caring Professionals

Founders’ Spirit Award

The Founders’ Spirit Award, inaugurated in 2001, honors the spirit of the intrepid individuals who founded HCP in 1974. The award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated strong and successful efforts to promote awareness and appreciation of home and community-based services.

2001 Brian Botshon, Attentive Care of Albany
Maurice Kelly, New York Nursing Care
Marilyn Menichelli, M-E-A Health Care Services
Norma Recco, Recco Home Care Services
William Schnell, Family Aides
Roslyn Wilkins, Aides at Home
2002 Sanford Katz, Priority Home Care
2003 Jordan Shames, Neighbors Home Care
2004 Margaret Coffey, South Shore Home Health Services
2005 Barbara Rossoff and Michele Tiger, OMEGA Home Health Services
2006 Bader Peters Reynolds, CareGivers
2007 Phyllis M. Raymond, Accent Health Care Services
2008 Bernhard R. Schiel, Bestcare
2009 Kenrick Cort, Tri-Borough Home Care
2010 Eileen Gerard, Regional Manager/ Director of Human Resources, South Shore Home Health Services
2011 Annette Horvath, Administrator, Bronxwood Licensed Home Care
2012 Al Gauvin, President, Companion Care of Rochester
2013 Fran Schafer, CEO, Wellness Home Care
2014 Richard Schaefer, Chief Operating Officer, Better Home Health Care Agency
2015 Rebecca Leahy, Executive Director, North Country Home Services
2017 Andrea Thomas-Randall, Sunnyside Citywide Home Care Services
2018 Sandra Lyons-Jackson, Companion Care of Rochester
2019 Judith Karmelek, CareGivers
2022 Direct Care Work Force
2023 James Rolla, VNS Health/Partners in Care

Associate Member of the Year Award

This award is presented to an HCP Associate member who has shown dedication and demonstrated excellence in furthering the goals and objectives of HCP either within the current membership year or over an extended period of time.

1997 Gary P. Carpenter, Carpenter & Onorato
1998 Thomas B. Arney, Program Risk Management
1999 Gerald Halpern, Esq., Halpern & Pasternack
2000 Nicholas Gnad & Paul Essner, New England Financial Group
2001 Michael Fiore, Health Care Answering Services
2003 John M. Bagyi, Esq., Bond Schoeneck & King
2004 John M. Conroy, Program Risk Management
2005 David A. Johnson, DeChants, Fuglein & Johnson
2006 Paul J. Siegel, Esq., Jackson Lewis
2007 James Pavoldi, Program Risk Management
2008 Leo D’Sa, S C Health Care Consulting
2009 Tricia Shackel, Mobile Health Management Services
2010 Paul Essner, Partner, The Signature Group of Companies
2011 Gary Carpenter, Partner, Holtz Rubenstein Reminick
2013 Hodgson Russ
2014 John Tuttle, Hagedorn and Company
2015 Roni Glaser, Esq., Glaser & Weiner
2016 Emina Poricanin, Esq., Hodgson Russ
2017 Sandata, Inc.
2018 Barbara Citarella, RBC Limited Healthcare & Management Consultants
2019 Friedlander Group, Inc.
2020 Michael Weiner, Esq, Glaser and Weiner, PC
2021 James Cohen, Nevvon
2022 Mobile Health
2023 NY Best Medical

NYS Elected Official of the Year Award Congressional Delegation Award

Presented to a local, State or Federal elected official who has done the most to advance the interests of home and community-based care. This award is presented to an elected official who has represented the best interests of home care.

1997 Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver
1998 Senator Dean G. Skelos
1999 Assembly Member Ronald Canestrari
2000 Assembly Member David Gantt and Senator William Larkin
2001 Assembly Member Maureen O’Connell
2002 Assembly Member Richard Gottfried
2003 Assembly Member Kevin Cahill and Congressman Eliot Engel
2004 Assembly Member Paul Tonko and Congressman John Sweeney
2005 Assembly Member Joseph D. Morelle
2006 Senator Kemp Hannon
2007 Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno and Congressman Charles Rangel
2008 Senator George D. Maziarz, NYS Senate and Congressman Michael R. McNulty
2009 Congressman Brian M. Higgins
2010 Senator Craig Johnson
2011 Senator John DeFrancisco
2012 Assembly Member Anthony Brindisi
2015 Assembly Member John McDonald
2016 Senator Kemp Hannon
2017 Assembly Member Andrew Raia
2019 Senator Gustavo Rivera
2020 Senator Todd Kaminsky
2021 Senator Rachel May
2022 Assembly Member Richard Gottfried
2023 Assembly Member Amy Paulin

Excellence in Public Relations Award

This award recognizes the achievements of an individual or organization that has raised awareness of the home care industry; drawn attention to a significant home care issue; or generated a high level of media coverage for an agency, other home care agencies or the home care industry through public relations efforts that generate an exceptional level of media coverage.

2008 Community Health Center HCP Long Island Chapter North Country Home Services VNA of Central New York
2010 HCP Long Island Chapter
2010 Travis Wattie, NYS Association of Health Care Providers (HCP)
2011 Home Care Association of Niagara County (HANCI)
2013 Rebecca Leahy, Executive Director, North Country Home Services
2020 Christine Johnston, Premier Home Health Care
2022 The New York Caring Majority

Journalistic Excellence in Support of Home Care Award

This award is presented to a journalist, reporter or media outlet that has demonstrated a commitment to raising the awareness of the home care industry through its reporting or feature stories.

2008 Richard Richtmyer, Associated Press
2017 Pete Demola, Sun Community News, Denton Publications

Norma Recco Advocate of the Year Award

Established and Presented by the HCP Long Island Chapter

The Norma Recco Award was established in 2011 by the HCP Long Island Chapter in memory of the late Norma Recco, a tireless advocate for the home care industry. This award is presented to an individual who emulates Norma’s passion, dedication and energy toward building awareness for the home care industry and who has made significant legislative and/or regulatory contributions toward advancing the best interests of home and community-based care.