KSHE Awards

After months of social isolation due to the pandemic, KSHE Board Leadership was able to personally present the 2020 Norm Menser Award and the 2020 James Mason Leadership Award to their respective recipients.

	David Wilcox

2021 KSHE President Martin Wheatley and Past President Joe Taylor were joined by another Past President, Jack Merrill for the presentation of the Norm Menser Award to David Wilcox. Mr. Wilcox, a graduate of Madisonville High School and the Madisonville area VoTech school, became a certified building inspector in 1982. David joined the Department of Housing, Building and Construction for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 2006 and retired in 2018. David had projects in nearly every hospital and healthcare facility in Western Kentucky and was widely thought of as a friend to facilities, maintenance, and healthcare construction managers, and designers across the state.

Mike Canales

Past President Joe Taylor was honored to be able to present the 2020 James Mason Leadership Award to a surprised Mike Canales as he conducted an in-service training event for the Facilities Team at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital. Mike has led KSHE’s education efforts as Board Education Vice-President since 2016. He is passionate about improving patient safety by assuring that we have an educated facilities workforce here in Kentucky and throughout the country. He has spent an incredible amount of time preparing for and presenting various educational offerings to our members and friends here in the Commonwealth and around the country, and has pioneered the first ever certification program for healthcare facilities technicians (CHFT). He is employed by KCTCS and works at Owensboro Community & Technical College as the Director of the Healthcare Facilities Leadership (HFL) program, the first fully online Associates Degree program that provides a pathway for aspiring men and women to become the healthcare facility leaders of tomorrow.

Joe Taylor
KSHE Past President

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