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Memorial Medical Center’s Candy Canga-Picar honored for nursing excellence

MODESTO –September 14, 2009 – Longtime Memorial Medical Center nurse Candy Canga-Picar, RN, BSN, MBA, manager of Surgical and Nursing Support Services, has been named as one of five finalists in the 2009 California NurseWeek Nursing Excellence Awards (management category) presented by the publisher of NurseWeek Magazine, the leading source of local and national nursing news. The finalists will be honored at an awards gala in Garden Grove on September 25.

Canga-Picar joined Memorial’s staff in October 1995. During her tenure at Memorial, she led the Skilled Nursing Facility to earn two perfect surveys from the Department of Health Services and obtained her master’s degree in business administration. In 2008, she led the Surgical Unit to help Memorial obtain Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence designation from the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. In March 2009, her department ranked eighth place nationwide in the Press-Ganey Inpatient Satisfaction Survey’s Surgical Subspecialty.

“Nursing is all about people and I love people,” Canga-Picar says. She encourages fellow nurses: “Do what you love and love what you do with excellence.”

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Memorial Medical Center is part of Sutter Health, a family of not-for-profit hospitals, physician organizations and other medical services that share resources and expertise to advance health care quality and access. Serving more than 100 communities in Northern California, Sutter Health is a regional leader in cardiac care, cancer treatment, orthopedics, obstetrics, and newborn intensive care, and is a pioneer in advanced patient safety technology.