Fleet Bank Awards

Fleet Bank awards each year 15 ‘fleet small business awards’ to candidates who are presented by their clients, not by themselves, for the unique and creative ways they ‘work.’ Completely unknown to Dr. Deluca-Verley, Fleet Bank contacted her to tell her she had won. Colleagues at the hospital and one of the families of her patients had presented her. 1,500 candidates up and down the east coast had been presented that year, she later learned. ‘So, what does that mean that I’ve won?’ Bethe asked. ‘Well, to start, $10,000 for you, and $10,000 for your favorite charity. And a week in Bermuda for you, your husband and the couples who presented you, all expenses paid. It was Elisabeth’s manner of practicing her art (of medicine) which had so moved those who put her forward. From house calls, to listening to patients in addition to the standard medical exam. Limiting her patients to 20 per day, and not 50-60 which the insurance companies were trying to impose…