Samaritan group receives ‘Heroes of Healthcare’ award

MOSES LAKE — A team of Samaritan Healthcare doctors and nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, lab technicians and other staff recently received an award for their work on a plan to help patients susceptible to sepsis. “Sepsis is the body’s extreme reaction to an infection,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Director of Emergency Services Rebecca Suarez and emergency room nurses Courtney Koehn and Amanda Martinez represented the team that won the “Heroes of Rural Healthcare” award for 2024 at the Samaritan commission meeting Tuesday.