From left to right: Dr.
Jeff Feit, Dr. Colin Greene, Mark Nantz, Dr. Nicolas Restrepo, and Dr. Iyad Sabbagh
The Circle of
Excellence
The Top of Virginia Regional Chamber added an exceptional award to the Greater Good Awards to recognize a select group “I am very blessed to be surrounded by a great of individuals representing the Healthcare Industry in our team in the medical community” region. The Circle of Excellence Award was awarded to Dr. - Dr. Iyad Sabbagh Colin Greene, Dr. Jeff Feit, Dr. Iyad Sabbagh, Dr. Nicolas Restrepo, and Mark Nantz for their efforts, which went far Valley Health stood side-by-side with the Lord Fairfax Health beyond the call of duty to assure and protect the health and District early in the pandemic to provide testing and care for well-being of our entire region. higher-risk populations. At the time, an outbreak had been discovered in a nursing home, eventually taking the lives of 20 Innumerable people in various roles have worked tirelessly to people. Healthcare providers were tasked with quickly finding respond to challenges that the pandemic created. The Circle the populations within the care facility and separating those of Excellence individuals served in prominent roles, leading testing positive for the Coronavirus from those that were negathe efforts while displaying an extraordinary dedication to the tively testing for the virus. mission. Each award recipient quickly gave credit that their teams were ultimately responsible and deserving of the recog- Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the Healthnition. “You don’t get things like this without having an incredi- care resources of the Northern Shenandoah Valley and the ble team,” said Dr. Jeff Feit, acknowledging the work of Tonya resilience of its Healthcare Providers since the beginning. This Brown and Jason Craig. “None of this happens without them adversity fostered increased collaboration in the community and without many other people who have done incredible work from Valley Health’s effort working with the Lord Fairfax Healththis year.” District to working with Shenandoah University to ready a large vaccination site for the general public at the James R. Wilkins, “If I had to sum up the activities in the last year, community, Jr. Athletics and Events Center on the Shenandoah University collaboration, and volunteerism have been the theme of the campus. Thank you all for your dedication to our region’s health success of fighting this COVID virus,” Dr. Colin Greene. and safety.
