Business Awards: DelCotto named a Lawyer of the Year; St. Joseph East receives $50,000 Crusade for Children grant

▪ Laura Day DelCotto, a member of DelCotto Law Group, with offices in Lexington, Danville and Louisville, has been named Best Lawyers’ 2017 Lexington Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law Lawyer of the Year. Only a single lawyer in each practice in each community is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” For more information about Laura Day DelCotto or DelCotto Law Group,go to Dlgfirm.com.

▪ The Women’s Hospital at Saint Joseph East, part of KentuckyOne Health, will receive one of the WHAS Crusade for Children’s largest grants ever in the Lexington area, a $50,000 grant to upgrade the NICU with equipment that will help improve patient outcomes and potentially save lives.

The Women’s Hospital at Saint Joseph East provides some of the Commonwealth’s most vulnerable babies with advanced neonatal care. In 2013, The Women’s Hospital NICU was granted Neonatal Level III status by the state. Since then, the NICU has experienced a 63 percent increase in daily patient volume. The funding provided by the WHAS Crusade for Children will be used purchase additional beds and monitors for the Level III NICU, helping provide essential care to infants affected by premature birth, neonatal abstinence syndrome, fetal anomaly and respiratory disease.

Compiled by Dorothea Wingo

This story was originally published September 11, 2016 at 10:40 AM with the headline "Business Awards: DelCotto named a Lawyer of the Year; St. Joseph East receives $50,000 Crusade for Children grant."