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The Georgia Council on Auxiliaries, an organization made up of hospital volunteers from throughout the state, named Colquitt Regional Medical Center president and CEO Jim Lowry as its Chief Executive Officer of the Year at its annual convention in Augusta.
During the presentation, Lowry was praised not only for his leadership as the hospital’s CEO but for his support of the Volunteer Auxiliary over the years.
“There is an open door between the Auxiliary and Mr. Lowry,” Martha Greene, president of the Colquitt Regional Auxiliary, said. “He always makes the volunteers feel like they are a vital part of the CRMC team. It is not uncommon to see him sitting at a table with hospital volunteers in the cafeteria enjoying a lunch break.”
After receiving the award, Lowry told the approximately 500 volunteers attending the convention that the Colquitt Regional Volunteer Auxiliary was established in 1963 and that he had worked with nearly all of those volunteers over the years and he praised them for having love in their hearts and spreading it to others in hospitals across the state.
There are more than 7,000 hospital volunteers in 94 hospitals in Georgia and they contribute approximately 1.3 million hours in their hospitals plus funding of approximately $1.4 million. Funds contributed by the Colquitt Regional Auxiliary, like others throughout the state, come from sales in the hospital gift shop, which is run by the Auxiliary.