Jan. 14, 2008

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St. Cloud Hospital wins statewide Community Benefit Award
Hospital association honors Clara’s House

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – “Clara’s House,” a St. Cloud Hospital program that provides individualized care for children and adolescents with behavioral health problems, was awarded the 2007 Minnesota Hospital Association’s (MHA) Community Benefit Award Jan. 11 at the annual MHA banquet in Plymouth.

The honor was one of 20 individual and group awards bestowed by MHA of St. Paul recognizing volunteers, medical professionals, trustees, and others whose contributions bettered health care at Minnesota hospitals last year.

The Community Benefit award recognizes hospitals that have distinguished themselves
through efforts to improve the health and well-being of their communities. Criteria included:

• Promotes and improve the health and well-being of the community
• Addresses a demonstrated community need
• Demonstrates a financial and/or resource investment from the hospital to the community
• Demonstrates a creative approach to meeting the community need
• Demonstrates a measurable impact on health and well-being of the community

Read Sulik, M.D., director for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and Deb Stueve, R.N., director of inpatient and partial hospitalization programs, accepted the award for Clara’s House.

“This award is a gratifying recognition of the service and benefit that Clara’s House has brought to central Minnesota. It recognizes the commitment and dedication of St. Cloud Hospital, the central Minnesota community, the donors who made Clara’s House possible and all of the staff who work at Clara’s House,” said Steve Vincent, Director of Behavioral Health for St. Cloud Hospital.

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