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Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center has named employee Kris Clark as it second quarter TRAC STAR.

TRAC STAR is an acronym for the core values that guide HRRMC employee performance: teamwork, recognition, attitude, customer service, safety, talent, accountability and respect. The TRAC STAR award recognizes outstanding employees and presented quarterly.

Diagnostic procedures nurse Kris Clark, left, with Respiratory Therapist Alaina Kelly of Salida and Exercise Physiologist Sam Van De Velde with HRRMC CEO Bob Morasko at a TRAC STAR ceremony July 29.

According to the employee who nominated her, Clark is a diagnostic procedures nurse, nominated for striving to improve her department “…all the time when it comes to special procedures. She has addressed the process so there is better parent care before and after a procedure.”

Clark’s department manager, Duane Johnson added “Kris is not only a competent nurse, but she is a great team player, willing to help our department in any way possible and extends that help to the Emergency, Infusion and Cardiopulmonary departments. She is fantastic with patients, treating them with compassion and kindness.”

Clark was awarded a $200 gift check, a jacket with the hospital’s TRAC logo, and a certificate to be professionally photographed. A plaque with her photo will be displayed in the hospital café.

Hospital CEO Bob Morasko acknowledged the other two award finalists: Respiratory Therapist Alaina Kelly of Salida and Exercise Physiologist Sam Van De Velde of Salida.

HRRMC employees can nominate any of their colleagues for the TRAC STAR award. Members of the hospital’s Communications Team review all nominations and then cast individual ballots to determine the finalists and winner. All finalists are eligible to be named TRAC STAR of the Year.