Awards
- Buchwald Spirit Award for Public Awareness, National Hospice Foundation, 2012
- Art Buchwald award, The Washington Home and Community Hospices, 2011
- Best of award for article in the journal, Narrative Matters: “Hospice and the ‘End Game’” from the Family Caregiver Alliance, 2011
- Helen Thomas award for Excellence in Journalism, American News Women’s Club, 2010
- Global Communications Award in honor of Outstanding International Journalism, World Affairs Council, 2009
- Passion for Caring honoree, Capital Hospice, 2008
- Hall of Fame, Sigma Delta Chi Journalism Society, 2008
- American Women in Communications, 2008, Matrix award
- Exceptional Women in Publishing Award, 2006