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BROWARD HEALTH CORAL SPRINGS
HOLY CROSS HEALTH
Judy Shutowick

Arlene Moses After moving to Parkland 20 years ago, Judy Shutowick’s retirement has been anything
but quiet. The former executive director of the New York State Neurological Society has
Arlene Moses been a volunteer for Broward Health Coral Springs’ Auxiliary for 15 years. Shutowick
joined Holy Cross serves as the Auxiliary’s secretary, handling all of the computer needs, communications
Health as a volunteer and meeting minutes for the hospital’s service organization.
in 2000 and has since Throughout the pandemic, Shutowick has been the vital glue keeping fellow volun-
served more than teers engaged and informed as they worked virtually. She stepped up her responsibilities
9,500 hours in the to manage the Auxiliary’s Volunteer Reporter software, a pilot program that tracks com-
surgical information munication and attendance.
department, where Her proficiency with the Volunteer Reporter program was indispensable as she pre-
volunteers are respon- pared reports for The Joint Commission and the hospital’s Employee Health Department. She went on to train other
sible for facilitating volunteers throughout the healthcare system on the software and continues to work with the hospital’s IT
communication between families or caregivers of Department to ensure the software remains operational for volunteers.
patients in surgery and the recovery room staff. In
addition to her regular responsibilities as a volun-
teer, Arlene is also co-chair of the surgical informa- BROWARD HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER
tion volunteers and assists with administrative
tasks including welcoming, training, scheduling Ashley Brizendine
and supporting new volunteers assigned to surgical
information. Arlene is attentive to the needs of
patients and their families. She regularly goes above During the early days of the pandemic, when few wanted to be near a hospital, much
and beyond to accommodate patients and is always less volunteer at one, Ashley Brizendine was a lifesaver for Broward Health Medical
cheerful, dedicated, outgoing and dependable. Center. The hospital’s Gift Shop Director Saud Begovic credits Brizendine with helping to
keep the shop open.
Her dedication to the patients, visitors and caregivers who frequent the shop was most
evident during Brizendine’s treatment for breast cancer. She continued to donate her time
at the hospital gift shop in between her grueling radiation therapy sessions.
Brizendine, who became a volunteer in 2014, has logged nearly 2,500 service hours at
the hospital. She also served as the South District Director of the Association of Florida
Health Care Auxiliary-Volunteers. In that role, she partnered with Child Life at Broward
Health Medical Center and Fort Lauderdale Woman’s Club, sewing pillowcases and blankets, which the Auxiliary dis-
tributed to the Oncology-Hematology Pediatric Clinic and other pediatric departments.

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