AnonymousSource: Cottage Health
Cottage Health announced its 2018 Physicians of the Year Awards which recognize and reward physicians on the Medical Staff for exemplary performance.
Every year, Cottage Health staff members are asked to submit nominations to the Physicians Reward and Recognition Team. Award honorees are selected based upon the most nominations in four criteria: dedication to the profession and patients, respect and courtesy, collaborative practices, and efficient use of resources.
Recipients of the Physicians of the Year Awards for 2018:
Dr. Seth E. Anderson
Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital, appointed 1977
Dr. Gregory A. Cogert
Cardiovascular Diseases/Electrophysiology, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, appointed in 2015
Dr. Benjamin G. Diener
Internal Medicine/Hospitalist, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, appointed in 2009
Dr. Katharyn M. Hagen
Anesthesiology, Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital, appointed in 1995
“We congratulate our award winners who have earned the highest nominations from Cottage staff,” said Dr. Ed Wroblewski, Vice President of Medical Affairs & Chief Medical Officer at Cottage Health. “The outstanding work of these physicians demonstrates our core values of excellence, integrity and compassion to patient care.”
About Cottage Health
The not-for-profit Cottage Health is the leader in providing advanced medical care to the Central Coast region. Specialties include the Cottage Children’s Medical Center, Level 1 Trauma Center, Neuroscience Institute, Heart & Vascular Center, Center for Orthopedics, and Rehabilitation Hospital. The Cottage Health medical staff is comprised of more than 700 physicians, many with subspecialties typically found only at university medical centers. Last year, the Cottage Health hospitals in Goleta, Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez Valley provided inpatient care for 20,000 people, treated 78,000 patients through their 24-hour emergency departments and helped deliver 2,200 newborns.
I can attest to the awesomeness of two of these doctors. Seth Anderson helped save my feet when they were severely infected following frostbite and bad medical treatment by another doctor back in the early 1980’s. More recently Greg Cogert fixed a serious rhythm problem in heart that another doctor tried to fix but couldn’t.