LHC : honors 2016 Servant Leader of the Year finalists and national winner

LHC Group honors 2016 Servant Leader
of the Year finalists and national winner
National healthcare company bestows its highest honor at annual ceremony

LAFAYETTE, La. - LHC Group, a Lafayette-based national provider of post-acute care services, named Julie Jarnagin, performance improvement manager, as the company's 2016 Servant Leader of the Year. She was selected from a group of 10 finalists - also honored at the ceremony in April - as the national winner.

The Servant Leader of the Year is the highest honor an LHC Group employee can receive. LHC Group is a national healthcare company with 12,000 employees operating more than 400 locations in 26 states.

Jarnagin's fellow Servant Leader finalists included:

• Pamela Chappell
  Director of Nurses - Monroe, La.
  
• Amy Cleveland
  Regional Sales Director - Alabama and Pensacola, Fla., Madison, Miss.
  
• Jeannie Duckett
  Director of Nurses - Guntersville, Ala.
  
• Kerrigan LeBoeuf
  Administrator - Georgia
  
• B.J. Mabery
  Director of Nurses - Nashville, Ark.
  
• Raleigh May
  Area Sales Manager - Arkansas
  
• Jennifer Norris
  Director of Revenue Systems Administration - Home Office, Lafayette, La.
  
• Spencer Thibodeaux
  Regional Operations Director - Southern, Southeastern and Central Louisiana
  
• Janet Weaver
  Hospice State Administrator - Tennessee and West Virginia

Jarnagin joined LHC Group as a team leader in 1999 through an acquisition. She has worked in health care since 1980, when she began as a nursing assistant while in nursing school. With 37 years of experience in health care, Jarnagin is a true patient advocate who believes patients should receive the best possible quality care available.

LHC Group presents the Servant Leader of the Year award annually to a leader whose performance demonstrates the company's core values and produces positive results.

'I am so incredibly humbled to be recognized as the Servant Leader of the Year,' Jarnagin said. 'It is a privilege to go work each day with gratitude for the opportunities that LHC Group has given me, for the team I am blessed to work with, and for the LHC Group family that supports me.'

Keith Myers, LHC Group chairman and CEO, and Don Stelly, president and COO, presented Jarnagin with the award and congratulated her and her team for their success.

'Julie Jarnagin and her fellow Servant Leader of the Year finalists represent the best performers in our company,' Stelly said. 'We are proud to have each one of them on our team, and thrilled that they will be there to lead us as we continue our mission to provide high-quality health care.

'Julie's recognition as our national Servant Leader of the Year is well-deserved. The most rewarding part of my job is meeting people like her and watching her inspire her team to achieve success.'

About LHC Group, Inc.

LHC Group, Inc. is a national provider of post-acute healthcare services, providing quality, cost‑effective healthcare to patients primarily within the comfort and privacy of their home or place of residence. LHC Group provides a comprehensive array of healthcare services through home health, hospice, community-based services agencies and facility-based services.

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