ECHHO

Hank Hazen has won the 2017 Heart of Service Award! Hank was one of ECHHO’s first volunteers nearly 20 years ago, and has served on our Board of Directors since 2004. He was elected Chairman in 2013, and after being re-elected several times he continues to hold that position. In addition to the many other ways he has served to make Jefferson County a welcoming, caring and supportive community, Hank has continued during all these years to accept individual volunteer assignments for ECHHO, helping East Jefferson County neighbors on well over 300 occasions,

ECHHO Board Chair
Hank Hazen

serving at least 800 hours and driving approximately 12,000 miles providing transportation to and from essential medical services. Hank’s service to seniors and disabled people has included transportation, running errands and performing a remarkable array of chore services. He helped re-roof a home for one of our clients, managed an interstate move for another, helped to rebuild steps and an assortment of household tasks. Hank exemplifies the Spirit of ECHHO! 

Cassie Reeves retires from the Volunteer Coordinator
position to get back to doing what she really misses – being an ECHHO Volunteer Driver!

We are really going to miss Cassie's smiling face and incredible talent in
the office! But she decided that personal, direct contact with clients would be more fulfilling for her, so she will go back to volunteer driving.
For the next couple of weeks she will in the office to help train her
replacement, Alea Waters, so she gets off to a good start. Thank you
Cassie!

ECHHO welcomes new Volunteer Coordinator
Alea Waters.

Her joyful, compassionate spirit and her professional career as an RN, health and disabilities consultant, a bilingual health educator,
translator/interpreter and community outreach worker has led her to
ECHHO, where she is a welcome addition to our staff. In her own words:

"I've worked as an independent community home-health hospice
nurse in Port Townsend for the past 11 years. Many of my clients and some of my own family have benefited greatly from the loan of
medical equipment that ECHHO provides. Always, we have been received and helped by ECHHO staff in the kindest, most compassionate way – a real blessing during difficult times that often accompany the need for medical equipment. It is a great pleasure and honor for me to be serving this organization now!"

Heather Tillman is our Volunteer of the Month.
For Heather, we are very, very grateful!

When a client calls the office, Jeffrey Hall usually answers the phone
and assigns volunteers to requests for service. With Jeffrey taking a
medical leave of absence, we're needing some extra volunteers.
Heather Tillman was a long-term driver ". . . a hundred years ago."
She recently retired as a Board member, and has appeared almost daily in our office to do what most needed to be done! Heather quickly
learned to do most of the services related to working with volunteers,
including Jeffrey's job, and then she went to work recruiting volunteers, teaching others to do some of the work here in the office and revising/updating antiquated documents and procedures. She works quietly and with a broad smile (most of the time).