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For immediate release:  August 14, 2007 (Clyde, NC)

Vince Stringfellow, RN Honored as Great 100 North Carolina Nurse

The Great 100, Inc. a grassroots peer recognition organization honoring the nursing profession has chosen Haywood Regional Medical Center’s Vince Stringfellow, RN as one of the state of North Carolina’s top nurses for the year 2007.  

Recipients of the Great 100 honor are recognized due to their outstanding professional ability, excellence in practice, commitment to their profession and for contributions made to improving the healthcare services in their community.

Stringfellow joined the Emergency Department at Haywood Regional Medical Center in 1994, after relocating to Western North Carolina from Decatur, Georgia. “What I’ve most enjoyed about working at HRMC all these years is the diversity, and working with other departments to strive to reach our mission statement,” he noted.  

According to Shirley Harris, Interim Vice President of Clinical Services,  “The provision of outstanding nursing services in an ED setting demands a very rare, special and outstanding individual with the commitment and drive that few other fields demand.  Vince is a unique leader among the few.”

Stringfellow promotes the image of males in nursing as a positive, viable career choice for men. He was nominated by his peers and hospital administration due to a multitude of factors including, but not limited to: serving as volunteer for the American Red Cross, Special Olympics of Haywood County and resource nurse liaison for St. Margaret’s Catholic Church; spending countless hours to ensure physical and mental needs of the children in Haywood County’s courts and in foster care; mentoring and precepting new nurses to facilitate departmental growth; and providing leadership and a cohesive atmosphere for nurses and allied health professionals to provide optimum care to the patient and family.       

He blends his deep religious belief with a commitment to providing the best nursing care into a positive, nurturing, healing atmosphere.  “His experience, demeanor, energy, faith and enthusiasm for enhancing lives of others is evident in his daily nursing practice,” said Harris.  

“I am honored to receive this award,” Stringfellow said. “I’ve always felt that it’s important to give back whenever possible. That’s why I enjoy putting my faith into action in order to help others.” 

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