The CCNW Annual Excellence Award. Presented to Dr. Marie M. Spivey

This Excellence Award was established in 2022, and is selected by the CCNW Board Chair and acknowledges the work done over the past year or years to amplify the critical importance of the CCNW mission which is to foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse, and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of Connecticut residents.

Selection Criteria:  Awarded to a volunteer, group of volunteers, or an organization whose active engagement, dedication, expertise, and commitment has contributed significantly to supporting the development of the nursing workforce and amplifying the mission and goals of the organization in Connecticut and across the region.

The CCNW Annual Excellence Award.  Presented to Dr. Marie M. Spivey
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​Marie Spivey is a Principal/Consultant with the System for Education, Equity & Transition, LLC (SEET Consultants, LLC).  She is a Registered Nurse who holds EdD and MPA degrees, both from the University of Hartford, and a BS Degree in Human Service from Southern New Hampshire University.  She is a recognized a healthcare & nursing leader who has dedicated her career to developing and building a div​erse, well-educated, compassionate, and robust nursing workforce in CT! 
 
Currently, Dr. Spivey utilizes her knowledge and skills surrounding community health and the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion education into her role as an active Board member of several organizations – among them are:

•        Duncaster CCRC planned retirement organization and the Duncaster Foundation on the Board of Trustees,
•        The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce Board of Directors, and
•        Both Goodwin University and Capital State Community College Nursing Advisory Boards.

 
She serves as a Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Standards consultant for the CT Department of Children and Families, the Carelon Behavioral Health CT, a 15-member non-profit organizational cohort supported by the YWCA of New Britain and the New Britain Community Foundation, and other community-based, academic, and health organizations in and outside of the CT region.
 
During Dr. Spivey’s tenure at Hartford Hospital, she was responsible for the organization’s expanded participation into the Greater Hartford communities through its Community Benefit Program, and its community mobile van Health Star.  She was asked to serve as the hospital’s Loaned Executive to become the CEO of the Learning Corridor – and as such launched Hartford’s first 16-acre campus of four magnet schools and a Performing Arts Theater, bringing with her a fleet of security guards and her administrative support from the hospital.  
 
Dr. Spivey chaired Connecticut’s first Commission on Health Equity signed by Governor Jodi Rell to examine the state’s complex health system and acquire key findings intended to deliver a health care equity agenda for all.  She also became the Co-Chair of the New England Regional Health Equity Council (RHEC) which was the first of ten such Councils across the country created by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health.
 
In 2019, Marie retired from the Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) where she had served for several years as Vice President of Health Equity working with the state’s (then) 28 hospitals to enhance their efforts to form Diversity Collaborative Teams to better address health equity policies and opportunities to better serve their constituents.