Campbell and Arnette named 2024 Baker Excellence Award Winners
Congratulations to UNC Health Southeastern’s 2024 Baker Nurse of Excellence Mary Caitlin Campbell (Emergency Services) and 2024 Baker Nursing Assistant of Excellence James Arnette (Resource Pool)!
Campbell, of Bladenboro, began working at the Emergency Department at UNC Health Southeastern in 2018 as a scribe and has since advanced to a shift supervisor. She has earned associate and bachelor’s degrees in nursing and is now pursuing a doctor of nursing practice degree with Family Nurse Practitioner certification.
Arnette, of Hope Mills, began working at UNC Health Southeastern in 2015 in the cafeteria. He now works as a certified nursing assistant in the Resource Pool, providing support as needed to patient care units throughout the health system.
The Baker Nurse of Excellence Award was established in 2014 through an endowed gift by Stephanie and Wil Bass of Clayton, NC. The award is named in honor of Stephanie’s late grandparents, Dr. Horace Baker, Jr., a surgeon who was a member of the medical staff at Southeastern Regional Medical Center, and his wife Dorothy, a former Army nurse. Dr. Horace Baker Sr., Bass’ great-grandfather, was founder of the Baker Sanatorium in 1921 which later merged with Thompson Hospital to form what was known as the Baker-Thompson Memorial Hospital in Lumberton in 1946. These two older facilities were replaced by a new hospital known as Robeson County Memorial Hospital in 1953 which later became UNC Health Southeastern.
Past Baker Nurse of Excellence winners are Iris Cashwell, 2023; Christopher Minton, 2022; Samela "Dee" Prevatte, 2021; Tess McNeill, 2020; Don “Jake” Jacobs, 2019; Deborah Peterson, 2018; Sharon Smith, 2017; Cynthia Kinlaw, 2016; Tammy McDuffie, 2015; Elizabeth Moore, 2014; and Melissa Britt, 2013.
Caption: Pictured following the award presentations, from left, were President/CEO Chris Ellington, Foundation Executive Director Sissy Grantham, VP/CNO Renae Taylor, Baker Nurse Excellence Award Winner Mary Caitlin Campbell, Baker Nursing Assistant Excellence Award Winner James Arnette, and Baker Award Family Representatives Stephanie and Will Bass.
