Sister M. Gerald Hartney is honored by Modern Healthcare - HFMA News - Health Care Hall of Fame; American College of Healthcare Executives Congress
Categories: Health care magazineHealthcare magazine’s Health Care Hall of Fame during the American College of Healthcare Executives Congress in March. The Hall of Fame honors those who have made lifelong contributions to the healthcare industry.Sister Gerald was an active participant in the early years of HFMA, serving as the elected president in 1954 and 1955. At that time, she was general treasurer, Sisters of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Indiana. She later served as administrator at Holy Cross Hospital, San Fernando, California, and at Holy Cross Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah. She also has taught Asian and African sisters at Mater Ecclesiae Center in Tiberias, Israel; served as field consultant for financial management at the Catholic Health Association of the United States, St. Louis, Missouri; and consulted for bishops in dioceses throughout the world.
Sister Gerald served on the HFMA committee that wrote and scored the first HFMA Fellowship examination. She herself became a Fellow of HFMA in 1958. She received the Frederick C. Morgan Individual Achievement Award in 1962 and was awarded HFMA life membership in 1953. A league was named for her in the former Graham L. Davis program, and currently one of the chapter awards of excellence is named for her. Sister Gerald attended ANI in 1996 to accept the Board of Directors Award on behalf of all past elected HFMA presidents and chairmen during HFMA’s 50th anniversary.
HFMA President and CEO Richard L. Clarke, FHFMA, commented about Sister Gerald’s Hall of Fame induction, “This acknowledgement by the healthcare community is a fitting recognition of Sister Gerald’s achievements. For more than seven decades, Sister Gerald has been a financial expert, manager, teacher, healer, and mentor to thousands of colleagues and community members throughout the world. Her work with a variety of organizations, including HFMA, has made a significant difference in health care and in the lives of the people she has touched.”
The Hall of Fame has had only 61 inductees since its establishment in 1988. Sister Gerald joins Graham L. Davis and Harold Hinderer as Hall of Fame members who had significant HFMA involvement.