Amy Sylvester Award
2025 Amy Sylvester Award Honorees
The Croí Health Charitable Fund Board of Trustees created the Amy Sylvester Award for Healthcare Excellence to honor individuals who have made an impact on national and local healthcare.
In 1920, our first president, Amy Sylvester, RN, defined our mission that continues over a hundred years later.
Congratulations to our 2025 Amy Sylvester award honorees: Donna Pineau, PhD, RN, CNE, Member of the Croí Health Board of Directors, and Matthew Slater, 3x Superbowl Champion, 10x NFL Pro Bowler
Past Honorees:
2024:
- Bob Rivers, Executive Chair and Chair of the Board of Directors, Eastern Bankshares, Inc. and Eastern Bank
- Bill Scalzulli, Vice President of Investments, The Kraft Group & Affiliates, Former Croí Health Board of Directors Chair
2023:
- Sunita Puri, MD, MS, Program Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at UMass Chan School of Medicine; author, That Good Night
- Kevin B. Callanan, past Board of Directors chair
2022:
- Kate Walsh, Massachusetts Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services
- Jill Tallman, President, Cordelia Family Foundation
2021:
- Reverend Liz Walker, former Pastor, Roxbury Presbyterian Church and former news anchor at WBZ-TV
- Gina Vita, advocate and former member, Croí Health Charitable Fund Board of Trustees
2020:
- Barbara Bush, former First Lady (posthumously awarded to her granddaughter Barbara Pierce Bush)
- Michael O’Reilly, President, Fidelity Digital Assets and former Chair, Croí Health Charitable Fund Board of Trustees