Martha Jefferson Receives Annual Citizenship Award

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Updated: 6:38 PM Feb 23, 2012 Martha Jefferson Receives Annual Citizenship Award News Release The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce Thursday presented its 2012 Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship to Martha Jefferson Hospital. Posted: 3:49 PM Feb 23, 2012 Email Address: news@newsplex.com

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February 23, 2012

The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce Thursday presented its 2012 Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship to Martha Jefferson Hospital, before an audience of more than 150 business and community leaders attending the Annual Chamber Business Luncheon held at Holiday Inn – University Area, in Charlottesville.

“It is our great honor to honor Martha Jefferson Hospital,” said Robert P. Hodous, Partner at Payne & Hodous, Attorneys, Immediate Past Chairman of the Chamber Board, and Chairman of the Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship Committee. “For more than 100 years Martha Jefferson Hospital has held a special place in the tapestry of our Greater Charlottesville communities. We honor this key Chamber and community enterprise for doing their job – and doing it very, very well.”

Prior to the award presentation, Patricia L. Cluff, Associate Vice President at the University of Virginia Health System, and 2012 Chair of the Chamber Board of Directors, led a group of Chamber officers in presenting the 2012 Annual Chamber Report to the Chamber membership and business and civic leadership.

The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce established the Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship in 2005 to recognize outstanding examples of corporate citizenship in the Greater Charlottesville communities. This Chamber Award is established and named in honor of the late Hovey S. Dabney, a distinguished business leader and citizen in the Greater Charlottesville area, the Commonwealth of Virginia and our nation.

The Chamber Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship recipient is a Chamber member enterprise within the Greater Charlottesville area that is known for:

- Engaging in sound, successful business or professional practice and presence in our Greater Charlottesville communities and being a ready and good business partner with other community businesses;

- Investing directly in the economic, cultural and humanitarian advancement of our Greater Charlottesville communities and its culture;

- Pursuing a positive and healthy work environment for its employees and encouraging and supporting its employees and their families to participate in and support, our community’s activities, organizations and institutions; and,

- Inspiring other corporate citizenship by example.

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