West Boca Medical Center Names “Healthcare Heroes of the Year”

West Boca Medical Center (WBMC) named Wendy Fontana, histotechnologist of the laboratory department, and Harold Oster, R.N., of the ambulatory care unit, as the hospital’s annual Healthcare Heroes.

Fontana joined the WBMC team in 1994. She distinguished herself for the award by returning to work after her shift one evening because she was concerned about a biopsy sample that urgently needed to be sent to a reference laboratory. When she discovered it had not been retrieved by the scheduled courier, she personally drove the sample to the airport and paid for transport out of her own pocket.

Oster started working at the hospital before its official opening in 1986, transferring from another Tenet facility. He was recognized by a patient last October for going above and beyond his responsibilities as a nurse. Shortly before Hurricane Wilma hit, Oster stayed past his shift tending to a patient who had outpatient surgery, and then drove the patient home before the storm made landfall.