Northern Health (NH) strives to make our values – empathy, respect, collaboration, and innovation – the core of what we do every day. The Dr. Charles Jago Awards, named after our former board chair, acknowledge and celebrate the NH staff, physicians, and teams who have made outstanding contributions to the organization’s goals, reflecting our values in the process.
The team recipients for the category of collaboration are Ashley Stoppler and Rosetta Mitchell.
Ashley has spent her entire life in Prince George, where she earned her degrees at UNBC. With a 19-year tenure at Northern Health, Ashley has held roles in various programs across the health care spectrum, demonstrating operational leadership in areas ranging from patient transportation, to diagnostics, to home and community care, as well as inpatient nursing. Following the birth of her son, she transitioned into a strategic position within the Regional Chronic Diseases Program. Here, she has championed best practices in the areas of HIV, Hepatitis C, chronic pain, and more recently, diabetes and kidney care. Falling under the “other duties” section in her job description, Ashley found her work in transforming a UNBC student residence into an assisted living facility during the 2017 wildfires and forming an internal ground transportation system for lab specimens during the Covid-19 pandemic to be especially rewarding. Outside of work, when not sitting in the bleachers at the Kin Centre watching her six-year-old play the sport of the season, she finds time to teach yoga, travel with her family, and has recently started teaching at the post-secondary level.
Rosetta's journey began in Valemount, before she ventured to university in Kamloops. After a brief period in Prince George, she now calls the scenic town of Revelstoke her home. She has nearly a decade of diverse experiences ranging from rural health care, to labor and delivery, and emergency care. Rosetta's deep-seated passion for sexual and public health led her to join the Communicable Disease Team in 2021. In her role as the Regional Nursing Lead for Communicable Diseases, Rosetta and her colleagues play a pivotal role in public health interventions and offer essential support to clinicians delivering direct patient care. Outside the professional realm, she is an avid potter and mountain biker, who loves exploring the great outdoors with her dogs and partner.
Here are a few excerpts from the testimonial provided by their nominator, Executive Lead for Regional Chronic Diseases, Jessica McGregor:
“I want to nominate this team because of the exceptional way in which they worked collaboratively with Northern Health departments and community organizations, as well as provincial and national agencies, to bring dried blood spot testing (DBST) to Northern Health. Ashley and Rosetta are true champions of this low barrier testing method and have spent countless hours connecting with subject matter experts to understand this testing modality and how it could benefit and support patients with different needs and experiences. They did so through open, honest dialogue, and by always following up on their commitments. They showed up with respect and reliability, working through complex issues with skilled facilitation skills that ensured all perspectives were heard and considered. In this way, they were able to bring many key partners together to support Northern Health in becoming an early adopter of DBST.”
Please join us in congratulating Ashley and Rosetta, our 2024 award recipients for collaboration!
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