Naval Hospital Bremerton recently selected its Senior Civilian of the Year, Civilian of the Year and Contractor of the Year.

Jezieca Cachero was selected as the Senior Civilian of the Year, Bobbi Hoadley as the Civilian of the Year and Mary Mottet as the Contractor of the Year. All will be awarded a letter of commendation and a command plaque at a command awards ceremony scheduled for March 17.

Hoadley, who works at Naval Health Branch Clinic Bangor, is the lead health technician in the Physical Exams Department and is responsible for physicals for military and civilian employees on base. She also takes care of pre-employment physicals, Military Sealift Command physicals and various out-of-state physicals for a few universities.

“My job supports the readiness of the hospital and the Navy’s mission by making sure an individual is qualified to perform their job,” said Hoadley, who has worked at Bangor Submarine Base for over 10 years.

Mottet, in her RN Case Manager role at Naval Health Branch Clinic Bangor, coordinates special care needs for patients and their family by providing medical resources and emotional support while ensuring efficient and cost effective medical care. 

“Mottet has made significant contributions for the patients, the clinic and the entire NHB healthcare system,” said Naval Health Branch Clinic Bangor Officer in Charge Cmdr. James A. Thralls. “Extremely professional, compassionate and insightful, Mottet efficiently coordinated the care of the clinic’s most complex patients.

“Mottet is an outstanding and caring individual,” Thralls added, “who treats each patient like her own family.”

There were six nominations for Senior Civilian of the Year, seven nominations for Civilian of the Year and six nominations for Contractor of the Year for board members to vote for. All NHB and NHB branch medical clinics’ civilian and contractor staff are eligible to be nominated for the awards.

Cachero works at Naval Health Clinic Everett and is an American Society for Clinical Pathology certified medical technologist. Her duties consist of working in the lab, running lab work along with the responsibility of keeping her lab in compliance with the College of American Pathologists, a laboratory accreditation program.

Cachero said, “Providing quality care for each individual Sailor, Soldier, family member or anyone else we serve, helps support NHB’s mission both in readiness and meeting healthcare needs.”

Cachero said she was quite surprised to learn she had won the award.  She said she was just doing her job and was lucky enough to work in an environment that made it very easy to get along and get her job done.

The candidates for the awards were first nominated via a submission package approved by their department head, who then sends the package to the awards selection board at NHB. The eight voting servicemembers and civilians who make up the board each decide, individually, on the best candidate for the awards.

The voting is all done without collaboration and tallied by the process owner, a non-voting board member, before finally being sent to the board chairman. The nominee-submission process as well as the voting process is all done through NHB’s intranet services. 

“Nominees are selected based on excellence in their jobs, command impact and going above and beyond in support of NHB’s mission,” said Lt Erich Dietrich, process member on the selection board. “Being aligned with our command’s mission, vision and guiding principals shows an employee does more than just their assigned job duties, and that deserves recognition at the highest level.”

Dietrich and the other board members go through the selection process five times a year; once every quarter and once for the yearly award. 

The selection process is made as objective as possible for the fairest selection of nominees, Dietrich added. This is why each board member votes independently and none of the members collaborate their votes. 

“I think it’s important to recognize excellence at the command,” said Dietrich. “We have a lot of outstanding civilian employees supporting our mission with us, and they deserve the same recognition we’d give our military staff.”