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MEMBERS ON THE MOVE



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                                             Elayna Creed, operations manager      to Financial Transformation.
                                             of the State Room Restaurant,         The Alphonse Desjardins Award
        Sparrow Carson Hospital is proud     was awarded the Emerging              recognizes credit unions for their
        to recognize Leslie Bliss from       Hospitality Leader of the Year        excellence and leadership in adult
        Sparrow Medical Group Greenville     award at the Michigan Restaurant      and youth financial literacy and
        as its Caregiver of the Quarter. Bliss   and Lodging Association 2022 Stars   education. LAFCU was honored
        has been part of the SMG Greenville   of the Industry Awards dinner on     for its innovative adult personal
        team for the past nine years and     November 9th.                         finance course, which is now in its
        is an example of the highly skilled                                        second cohort.
        caregivers who provide leading-
        edge medicine at Sparrow. She                                              Delta Township is proud to have
        works as a referral coordinator,                                           received the Government Finance
        ensuring patients are scheduled for                                        Officers Association Distinguished
        testing and appointments for their                                         Budget Presentation Award. The
        specialized care.                                                          award represents a significant
                                                                                   achievement by the Township
                                                                                   and reflects the commitment of
                                                                                   the governing body and staff to
                                                                                   meeting the highest principles
                                                                                   of governmental budgeting. To
                                             Engineering News-Record (ENR)         receive the budget award, the
                                             Midwest has awarded McLaren           entity had to satisfy nationally
                                             Greater Lansing an Award of           recognized guidelines for effective
                                             Merit in its 2022 Best Projects       budget presentation. These
                                             competition. An independent           guidelines are designed to assess
                                             panel of Application Engineering      how well the Township's budget
                                             Company experts reviewed a total      serves as a policy document, a
        Sparrow Eaton Hospital has           of 64 projects. Of those projects, 13   financial plan, an operations guide,
        honored a highly skilled nurse with   received Best Projects recognition   and a communications device.
        its first-ever DAISY Award after she   and ten received Awards of
        comforted an autistic child who      Merit across 16 categories. The       DISTINCTIONS
        was uneasy about undergoing          project consolidated two existing
        surgery. Surgery nurse Emily         Lansing hospitals into a new          Rehmann, a fully integrated
        Bradford, RN, was named the          562,000-square-foot hospital          professional advisory firm, has
        DAISY Award honoree based on a       adjacent to Michigan State            been named to the Accounting &
        nomination from a family member      University. The nine-story, 240-bed   Financial Women's Alliance 2022
        of a patient for her compassion      hospital is nestled within a 39-acre,   Best CPA Firms for Women list, as
        and attentiveness to the autistic    $601 million healthcare campus.       well as the 2022 Best CPA Firms for
        child. Bradford, who has worked                                            Equity Leadership. This is the firm's
        at Sparrow Eaton since 2016, was     The Credit Union National             tenth time being named on the
        recognized for her compassionate     Association (CUNA) has awarded        Best CPA Firms for Women list, and
        care, outstanding nursing skills,    LAFCU with the 2022 state-level       the third consecutive year it's been
        and for always putting patients      Alphonse Desjardins Award for         named a Best CPA Firm for Equity
        first.                               its comprehensive, eight-month        Leadership.
                                             personal financial course, Pathway

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