Rocky Mountain Care, a Utah nonprofit health-care company,received the Agency of the Year award for 2006 given by the Societyfor Social Work Leadership. Andrea Bailey, a licensed clinical socialworker for Rocky Mountain Care, also received the Emerging SocialWorker of the Year award. Both awards were presented at the society'sannual banquet recently.
The agency award is given for commitment to using social workersin both traditional and nontraditional settings, and for a commitmentto providing important continuing education for social workers.
The individual award goes to a licensed clinical social workerwith five or fewer years of experience in health care social work whodemonstrates extraordinary ded- ication to service, dignity, worth ofthe individual patient, social justice, importance of humanrelationships, integrity and competence.
Rocky Mountain Care employs social workers in the company's FaithIn Action Program, as hospice administrators, directors of socialwork, and with patient care coordination. They employ social workersin urban and rural areas and are the only agency that serves Utah'sIndian populations in Blanding, Montezuma Creek and Monument Valley.
Rocky Mountain Care employs approximately 950 employees acrossfive Western states, specializing in skilled nursing facilities andrehabilitative services, home health care services and hospice or end-of-life services.
