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Celebrating Excellence: NAATSIHWP & IAHA Award Winners

6 Apr 2023

CRANAplus was proud to sponsor multiple important industry awards in 2022, including NAATSIHWP’s Models of Care and Career Pathways Innovation Excellence Award and IAHA’s Allied Health Assistant Person of the Year Award.

Lorraine Randall

Lorraine Randall received the 2022 Allied Health Assistant Person of the Year Award for her work with speech pathology and telehealth in the Top End. The award was given by Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA).

Waminda, Women’s Health and Welfare Aboriginal Corporation

Kalinda Wills and Loretta Longbottom from Waminda, with Amelia Druhan from CRANAplus at the 2022 NAATSIHWP Conference. Waminda received the Models of Care & Career Pathways Innovation Award, sponsored by CRANAplus.

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