Awards of Excellence
Awards were presented at the LTCAM Conference May 13, 2025
Awards of Excellence are awarded each year to recognize individuals, teams, and volunteers who demonstrate exceptional dedication and service within the long-term care sector. These awards celebrate outstanding contributions in various environments of care. Eg. Personal Care Homes, Supportive Housing residences, Assisted Living, Adult programs, and Community and Seniors resource centres.
The awards are open to all staff, residents, and volunteers involved in providing care and services to seniors throughout Manitoba. Membership in LTCAM is not a requirement. If you know someone who goes above and beyond in their work or volunteer role, use this opportunity to celebrate their contributions. Nominate them today for this prestigious award.
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Award Presentation
The awards will be presented at the Annual Provincial Long Term and Continuing Care Conference.
Juding
The awards will be presented at the Annual Provincial Long Term and Continuing Care Conference.
Know someone who is making a difference in the long term care sector, nominate them below for the 2025 Awards of Excellence!
Deadline for Submissions
March 28, 2025
The Awards Ceremony will be held at the 2025 LTCAM Annual Provincial Conference on Tuesday, May 13th, 2025, at the Victoria Inn & Convention Centre in Winnipeg.
2024 Awards of Excellence Winners
Lori Klien
Lori graduated from the Brandon General Hospital School of Nursing in 1995 with a registered nurse diploma, and worked in various areas – Labor and delivery, postpartum, acute medicine and rural acute – until 1999 when she returned to the post diploma baccalaureate program at Brandon University, graduating with a BScN in 2001. Lori then worked in various positions in Public Health and Health Promotion before accepting the position of Client Care Coordinator at the Hartney Personal Care Home in 2006. Lori has spent the last 18 years in the Client Care Coordinator Position at Hartney PCH, a 20 bed Long term care facility. Lori is passionate about client centered care and dementia education for all staff in all departments.
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Lisa Martens
Lisa has been with Edison Properties since 2019, first as a health care operations and design consultant and now as Executive Director for Bergen Gardens. With over 25 years of long-term care nursing leadership and administrative experience in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors in two health regions, her mission continues to be to give seniors a voice in the places they live whether that be long-term care, supportive housing, or assisted living. Her current responsibilities include educating and guiding leadership and staff toward being truly person-directed every day and to fulfil the mission of this groundbreaking senior care project and inspire everyone who lives, works, and visits this extraordinary building. Lisa is a lifelong learner, dog lover, avid gardener, and a country girl at heart.
Kim Nott
Kim Nott has worked in the Long-Term Sector for over three decades. Kim has provided compassionate care to seniors in long-term care facilities and for the last 7 years has been working with Brightwater Senior Living. Kim has developed a deep understanding of the unique needs and challenges faced by Winnipeg’s elderly population.Throughout her career, Kim has honed her skills in geriatric nursing, advocacy for her elderly clients, and specializing in the long-term care of seniors. Throughout Kim’s three-decade nursing career she has demonstrated a strong commitment to promoting the health, well-being, and dignity of her residents and their families.
Kim’s nursing practice is characterized by empathy, patience, and a genuine passion for making a positive difference in the lives of her seniors. She is known for both providing and ensuring quality of care is maintained by the staff she overseas, fostering trusting relationships with seniors and their families, and advocating for their rights and preferences.
Beyond her clinical responsibilities, Kim has worked in leadership roles, mentoring new nurses, being a listening ear for families of her elderly clients and has participated in quality improvement initiatives.
Kim's commitment to advocacy for our seniors in long-term care and assisted living will remain steadfast. Her dedication to champion the rights, well-being,
and dignity of our seniors will remain her focus ensuring quality of care and strives to create a brighter and more compassionate future for all our seniors.
Kathleen Klassen
Riverview Health Centre in Winnipeg has embarked on a whole-organization culture transformation journey to embrace and sustain Person Directed Living. What makes this endeavour exceptional is the breadth of organizational change and adoption of a Person Directed Living approach across a variety of living, transitional care, and community support and outreach services. These principles are being integrated into the daily functioning, interactions, and the fabric of all programs and teams across the organization.
Person Directed Living encompasses concepts similar to Person Centred Care but deepens them further to support purposeful living and a meaningful life, as well as meeting individual care needs. Person Directed Living is a relationship-focused approach that aims to support each person we serve to direct their own lives and care as much as possible. Decisions belong in the hands of each person, or, at the very least, in the hands of those closest to them. Staff and teams work collaboratively with each other and in partnership with each person we serve and their chosen supports/care partners to empower them and enhance their living and care experiences.
As expectations shift with respect to quality long-term care and living services in Manitoba, we need more responsive and flexible in living and care approaches for seniors. By adopting and nurturing a Person Directed Living philosophy to diverse care and services, Riverview Health Centre hopes to act as a role model and inspiration to other organizations who wish to embark on a similar journey.