Savannah Reeves, Assistant Director of Rehabilitation at Sylvan Grove, with the Tenet Caregiver Award.

Sylvan Grove Hospital announced today that Savanna Reeves, the assistant director of rehabilitation, has been inducted into the Tenet Caregiver Hall of Fame, Tenet Healthcare Corp.’s (NYSE: THC) highest award for caregivers at its hospitals.  

For six years, Reeves has worked as a physical therapist at Sylvan Grove Hospital.  During this time, she helped establish the pediatric programs at Sylvan Grove Hospital and Spalding Regional Medical Center, and has helped train many of the new therapists at Sylvan Grove.  While she works with both adult and pediatric patients, Reeves’ passion is for helping children.  Two such patients are James and John Sirah, twin boys who were born with cerebral palsy.  When Reeves first started working with the boys, they were behind in their development and unable to stand or crawl.  Now, after several years of therapy and multiple surgeries, John can walk mostly unassisted and James is able to stand and is beginning to take steps.  The boys’ story, including an interview with Reeves, was featured on the Discovery Channel series Surgery Saved My Life.            

“Our Caregiver Hall of Fame winners represent the best of who we are at Tenet and what we do as health care providers in the communities we serve,” said Trevor Fetter, Tenet’s president and chief executive officer.  “The passion and quality of care provided by dedicated professionals like Savannah serve as an inspiration to us all.”                    

Reeves is just one of three people inducted into this year’s Caregiver Hall of Fame and the only recipient from Tenet’s Southern States region.  This year’s recipients were chosen out of dozens of compelling nominations.  Caregiver Award winners are nominated by their hospital’s leadership team and selected based on their expertise in providing clinical care, examples of extraordinary patient care, and comments from colleagues, patients and their families, and physicians.            

Reeves received her award, which included a tribute video, at a ceremony in Dallas on April 12.