The award was presented at the unit’s annual breakfast and awards event on Tuesday, March 6 at Epping Forest Yacht Club in Jacksonville.
Racine, a 17-year veteran of Community Hospice & Palliative Care, has served as a mentor and guide to new social workers and a compassionate guide to thousands of patients at the end of life, as well as to children coping with grief as a volunteer at Community Hospice & Palliative Care’s Camp Healing Powers®. She also gives of her time each year to participate in medical mission trips to Central America.
Racine was nominated by Roxanne Miller, palliative care social worker at Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville. In her nomination, Racine was described as, “an excellent communicator [who can] easily see the strengths in others. She approaches her work with humility and views her service to the terminally ill as sacred work.”
Racine was introduced at the event by Community Hospice & Palliative Care president and CEO Susan Ponder-Stansel, herself a 2012 Social Worker of the Year honoree from the same body.
About Community Hospice & Palliative Care
Established in 1979, Community Hospice & Palliative Care is an innovative national leader in palliative and hospice care, as well as providing programs and services to meet the diverse needs of the communities it serves. During its 38-year history, Community Hospice & Palliative Care has served nearly 200,000 adults and children in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties, and recently expanded its service area to include 11 counties in north-central Florida. Through the support of more than 900 employees and 1,000 volunteers, the organization helps approximately 1,600 patients per day to live better with advanced illness – at home, in long-term care and assisted living facilities, in hospitals and at its eight inpatient care centers. The organization is committed to improving the quality of life for patients and their families and to be the compassionate guide for end-of-life care in our communities. No one is ever denied care due to an inability to pay.
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