09-05-2025
Memorial Medical Center names Mercy Award winner
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Memorial Medical Center (MMC) has named its 2025 Mercy Award Winner, according to the hospital on Tuesday, May 6, in Las Cruces.
Traci White, Memorial Medical Center's clinical pharmacy specialist in oncology and palliative care, was announced as the 2025 Mercy Award winner.
'To say our hospital, Cancer Center and community are blessed to have Traci is an understatement. Her heart is truly one in a million,' said Dennis Knox, CEO of Memorial Medical Center. 'We are incredibly proud of Traci, we are thrilled to bestow this honor on her, and we know she will represent MMC extremely well at the national level of this award process.'
The Mercy Award is a Lifepoint Health (parent company) award that highlights one employee from each facility nationwide who 'profoundly touches the lives of others and best represents the spirit and values on which the company was founded. The award is considered the highest honor a Lifepoint employee can receive,' according to the news release by MMC.
According to Memorial Medical Center, White was one of only seven pharmacists nationwide to be double-Board certified in oncology and geriatric pharmacy.
Before working at MMC, White was working at a local hospital agency and began working at Memorial Medical Center in 2019.
White also started the Palliative Care Program at the hospital, where she recognized a 'great need in our community and region to improve the care for serious and/or terminal illness,' MMC said.
According to MMC, White has served as the Chair of the Las Cruces Palliative Care Coalition since 2022, the Community Advisory Board for the New Mexico State University Cancer Outreach Core and is a regional leader for the Network for Collaborative Oncology Development and Advancement.
In addition, White has also served on the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Advisory Group on pain management and palliative care and the development committee for the Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists, MMC said.
While juggling board position, White also serves at the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University for the colleges of pharmacy and pharmacy residents, MMC said.
Each Lifepoint Health facility winner, including White, will be considered for Lifepoint's 2025 company-wide Mercy Award. The winner will be announced this summer and honored during a ceremony in Nashville in August, according to MMC.
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