Trios Health Names 2020 Mercy Award Winner

Trios Health is pleased to announce that Aggie Mowry, RN, has been recognized as the hospital’s 2020 Mercy Award winner. The Mercy Award recognizes one employee from each of LifePoint Health’s hospitals who profoundly touches the lives of others and best represents the spirit and values on which the company was founded.

The Mercy Award is an annual recognition program established in 2002 to honor the life and contributions of Scott Mercy, LifePoint’s founding chairman and chief executive officer. The award is considered the highest honor a LifePoint employee can receive.

“Aggie’s example is inspiring, and it pushes those around her to work harder and go above and beyond in their work and for their patients,” said John Solheim, CEO of Trios Health. “She makes an extraordinary difference in patient’s lives and in our community and beyond. She is a definite model of someone who leads by doing and lives our mission of Making Communities Healthier.”

Aggie has worked at Trios for nearly two years. She is recognized by her co-workers as someone who is willing to help others and jump into difficult situations.

“Aggie is a selfless person and is always evaluating the needs of her co-workers and patients above her own,” said co-worker Melissa Wilson, RN. “She makes a connection with every patient she is in charge of that is more than average. She can speak to them in a way others would not have the courage to discuss.”

Aggie has a particular spot in her heart for patients dealing with pregnancy loss, and was part of starting ‘Gone Too Soon’ – our area’s only pregnancy loss support group – through Chaplaincy Grief Care. She also has the only perinatal loss care certification in the Tri-Cities. Each May, she is also part of organizing the Little Hearts Remembrance Program, a memorial service to honor and remember babies lost during the past year.

Last year, Aggie extended her reach beyond our community and traveled to Uganda on a medical mission she organized herself. There, she volunteered in hospitals and clinics and shared with mothers about pregnancy loss.

“I told them that mamas lose babies here too and I told them it’s okay to be sad, to cry,” Aggie said when she returned. “I could share my own experiences from my culture and experience, but there was so much I learned from them. They touched me.”

Prior to leaving for Uganda, Aggie was seeking baby blankets to donate to the facilities there, and she posted on her personal Facebook page to see if anyone could help her out. The community responded in a big way, donating 130 pounds of blankets that filled three large suitcases. The donations were made anonymously through Amazon, from volunteers at various churches in the Tri-Cities, and from 4-H groups, among others. She even received a donation from a local mother who lost her baby.

Each hospital winner, including Aggie, will be considered for LifePoint’s 2020 companywide Mercy Award. The companywide winner will be announced this summer and honored during a ceremony in Nashville, Tenn., in October, to which Aggie and all hospital winners are invited to attend.