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Health care worker named Latina of the Year
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| Linda Green, center, and her Golden Living Center co-workers Minnie Ybarra and Rosa Martinez, hold the awards she was presented as Latina of the Year during the third annual Latina Red Dress event. Green, who has worked in health care for more than 47 years and is a restorative aide at Golden Living Center, was honored for her contributions to Golden Living Center residents and the community. Ybarra and Martinez were members of the committee that helps organize the annual Latina Red Dress Event, which highlights cardiovascular disease prevention. Photo by Maunette Loeks |
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By: MAUNETTE LOEKS
Staff Reporter
A 70-year-old health care worker garnered the Latina of the Year award Saturday. Linda Green was given the prestigious award at the third annual Latina Red Dress Event.
Green said she was honored to have received the award.
“I am glad I can share some of my experiences with younger people, and let them know to feel good about themselves,” she said. “Taking care of people has always been part of me, I have been doing it all my life in one way or another.”
Green’s supervisor Connie Lucius nominated Green, who is a restorative aide at Golden Living Center. In her nomination, Lucius said Green had spent 20 of her 47 years in health care at Golden Living Center, where “she leads by example.”
“Her residents here at Golden Living Center-Scottsbluff are her main focus. She always goes the extra mile,” Lucius said.
She gave examples, such as Green bringing frijoles and tortillas for a Hispanic resident and a bologna sandwich for another because they wanted those items for their meals.
Lucius said her attitude has earned Green the Care Giver of the Year Award from the Nebraska Health Care Assocation and Golden Living Center’s Angel of the Year Award.
Green’s sisters, Mary Gonzales, Celia Ojeda and Rosie Ybarra, also submitted a nomination letter for Green.
“She is always the first one to volunteer for everything and anything that needs to be done, whether at her job at Golden Living Center or out in the community,” they said.
The three sisters also said that she gives of herself as freely as she gives her time.
“We admire her inner strength,” the sisters said. “When we get frustrated, she reminds us of who God is and that anything is possible if you believe in Him …”
The Mexico native only attended school until third grade, they said, staying home to help their mother raise eight children after the death of their father. She moved to the United States at the age of 15 and taught herself to read and write in English. She became a U.S. Citizen 10 years ago.
Green also volunteers as co-chairman of the Alzheimer’s Walk, with the Senior Olympics and at the Jeremiah House, serves as a Sunday school teacher at her church and ministers to inmates at the Scotts Bluff County Detention Center.
Green was one of three candidates for the award. The committee considered nominations and nominees were selected based on a scored system.
She is married to Garland Green and the couple have four children: Donald, Walter, Earl and Jolene.
Chabella Guzman contributed to this story.
Green said she was honored to have received the award.
“I am glad I can share some of my experiences with younger people, and let them know to feel good about themselves,” she said. “Taking care of people has always been part of me, I have been doing it all my life in one way or another.”
Green’s supervisor Connie Lucius nominated Green, who is a restorative aide at Golden Living Center. In her nomination, Lucius said Green had spent 20 of her 47 years in health care at Golden Living Center, where “she leads by example.”
“Her residents here at Golden Living Center-Scottsbluff are her main focus. She always goes the extra mile,” Lucius said.
She gave examples, such as Green bringing frijoles and tortillas for a Hispanic resident and a bologna sandwich for another because they wanted those items for their meals.
Lucius said her attitude has earned Green the Care Giver of the Year Award from the Nebraska Health Care Assocation and Golden Living Center’s Angel of the Year Award.
Green’s sisters, Mary Gonzales, Celia Ojeda and Rosie Ybarra, also submitted a nomination letter for Green.
“She is always the first one to volunteer for everything and anything that needs to be done, whether at her job at Golden Living Center or out in the community,” they said.
The three sisters also said that she gives of herself as freely as she gives her time.
“We admire her inner strength,” the sisters said. “When we get frustrated, she reminds us of who God is and that anything is possible if you believe in Him …”
The Mexico native only attended school until third grade, they said, staying home to help their mother raise eight children after the death of their father. She moved to the United States at the age of 15 and taught herself to read and write in English. She became a U.S. Citizen 10 years ago.
Green also volunteers as co-chairman of the Alzheimer’s Walk, with the Senior Olympics and at the Jeremiah House, serves as a Sunday school teacher at her church and ministers to inmates at the Scotts Bluff County Detention Center.
Green was one of three candidates for the award. The committee considered nominations and nominees were selected based on a scored system.
She is married to Garland Green and the couple have four children: Donald, Walter, Earl and Jolene.
Chabella Guzman contributed to this story.
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