(Fort Worth, Texas) HEALTHPOINT today announced that TheWoundInstitute.com, an online source for accredited wound care education, received the prestigious Stevie Award for Professional Education in the 2006 American Business Awards held in New York City on June 12, 2006.
Hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars” by the New York Post (April 27, 2005), The American Business Awards are the only national, allencompassing Business awards program honoring great performances in the workplace.
Stevie Awards were presented in over 40 categories including Best Overall Company, Best Executive, and Best Corporate Social Responsibility Program. More than 1,500 entries from companies of all sizes, in virtually every industry, were submitted for consideration.
Members of the Awards' Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs selected Stevie winners from among the Finalists. Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in earlier this year.
Kathleen Farley, MS, RN, Director of Clinical Education for HEALTHPOINT was presented the Stevie award. “We are thrilled and honored to have TheWoundInstitute.com recognized as the best professional education project in the interactive multimedia category,” said Farley. “In an area of healthcare that's constantly changing, Healthpoint’s goal has remained the same: to advance wound care through innovative technology and education. We are pleased that the wound care community has responded so favorably to TheWoundInstitite.com and look forward to extending our offerings, taking full advantage of new technologies thatmake our educational content both compelling and inviting,” said Farley.
Sharing the award with Healthpoint was Interact Medical which partnered with Healthpoint to create TheWoundInstitute.com. Interact Medical is a leading developer of interactive medical elearning and marketing programs. Interact Medical creates visually based interactive learning and marketing solutions for companies in the medical sector.
Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word “crowned,” the awards were presented during ceremonies at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The ceremonies were hosted by CNN business news anchor Ali Velshi, videocast live on the Internet,and broadcast nationwide on radio.
The elegant Stevie trophy was designed by R. S. Owens, the same company that makes the Oscar® and the Emmy® .
About TheWoundInstitute.com
TheWoundInstitute.com is an interactive online source for professionally accredited and learnercentric, wound care education. The site was developed to accommodate the educational preferences and workplace demands of healthcare professionals by allowing both physicians and nonphysician clinicians to complete courses at the irown pace and register, test and receive CE or CME credits instantly for their course work. TheWoundInstitute.com has awarded over 18,500 CE/CME credits to healthcare practitioners since it was launched in 2005.
About HEALTHPOINT, Ltd.
Since its inception in 1992, HEALTHPOINT has established a presence in the research, development, and marketing of branded pharmaceuticals, over the counter drugs, and medical devices for surgical, tissue management, and dermatological indications. An aggressive research and development effort has brought HEALTHPOINT’s unique technologies to the market, setting the pace for its highly trained field sales organization of direct sales representatives. HEALTHPOINT, with over 300 employees, is a DFB Pharmaceuticals, Inc. affiliate company. HEALTHPOINT is based in Fort Worth, Texas.
Also headquartered in Fort Worth, DFB Pharmaceuticals, Inc., provides technology driven products, outsourcing services, and licensing opportunities to the healthcare industry worldwide through its affiliate companies, contract partners, and branded marketing organizations.
