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Rev. Hugh Ward, who has served for two years as Colquitt Regional Medical Center’s chaplain, has been named a Colquitt Regional Champion, a designation given to those who have given extraordinary service to the hospital.
Ward was cited for being a “selfless person” who often interrupts his personal schedule to hurry to the side of a person in need of comforting.
“I have first handedly observed this person in action,” Tammy Cone, R.N., of Colquitt Regional’s emergency room staff, wrote in her letter of nomination. “I have seen him providing a comforting hug to a young mother who has just arrived at the hospital and learns of her infant son’s death ... or a touch of a hand to a stranger from out of town who has been told that he may have only minutes or hours to live and then staying with the patient for hours and hours while in surgery while maintaining communication by phone with the family whom he had never met.”
Ward, who retired this week after 22 years as the minister at Moultrie’s First Presbyterian Church, is also a member of the Colquitt County Hospital Authority and the hospital Foundation’s Founder’s Society, made up of those who have given $10,000 or more to the hospital Foundation.
A graduate of Asbury College, Ward served in the Marine Corps. from 1966 until 1969 and received the Navy Commendation Medal. He received a master of divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary and a doctorate of ministry from the Graduate Theological Foundation. He has been active in many Colquitt County civic groups, including the Colquitt County Library Board, the Children’s Advocacy Center, Serenity House, Covenant Counseling Center and the Colquitt County Sports Hall of Fame. In 1996 Ward was named Colquitt County’s Man of the Year.