Rocky Mountain Care, a Utah nonprofit health-care company, received the Agency of the Year award for 2006 given by the Society for Social Work Leadership. Andrea Bailey, a licensed clinical social worker for Rocky Mountain Care, also received the Emerging Social Worker of the Year award. Both awards were presented at the society's annual banquet recently.
The agency award is given for commitment to using social workers in both traditional and nontraditional settings, and for a commitment to providing important continuing education for social workers.
The individual award goes to a licensed clinical social worker with five or fewer years of experience in health care social work who demonstrates extraordinary ded- ication to service, dignity, worth of the individual patient, social justice, importance of human relationships, integrity and competence.
Rocky Mountain Care employs social workers in the company's Faith In Action Program, as hospice administrators, directors of social work, and with patient care coordination. They employ social workers in urban and rural areas and are the only agency that serves Utah's Indian populations in Blanding, Montezuma Creek and Monument Valley.
Rocky Mountain Care employs approximately 950 employees across five Western states, specializing in skilled nursing facilities and rehabilitative services, home health care services and hospice or end-of-life services.