HFMA awarded the 2006 Frederick C. Morgan Achievement Award--the Association's highest individual honor--to Fred J. Lucky, FHFMA, senior vice president of the Kansas Hospital Association in Topeka, Kan. Lucky is the 48th recipient of this prestigious award that honors career-long contributions to healthcare financial management and HFMA.
Lucky has served on the HFMA National Board of Directors and has held all of the major volunteer positions for both the Heart of America Chapter and the Sunflower (Kansas) Chapter. Members of the judging committee were impressed with Lucky’s success in helping the Sunflower Chapter to forge strong relations with the Kansas Hospital Association as well as with a number of other organizations in the state to the benefit of their respective members. Lucky has also had significant civic involvement and played an integral role in obtaining additional Medicaid funding for Kansas providers.
In his acceptance speech, Lucky said, “We work in a noble profession, perhaps the noblest of all. Most of us in this room tonight…can’t provide the care and compassion for patients…but we can help provide the means, we can doggedly fight for adequate funding, we can try to correct a massively flawed payment system….That’s why membership in HFMA is so important.”
