Darden wins award for Exceeding Expectations
Robbin Darden, lead nurse at The Lantern at Morning Pointe Alzheimer’s Center of Excellence in Chattanooga, has received the Morning Pointe Senior Living Exceeding Expectations award for outstanding service for the Appalachian Region, covering 13 Morning Pointe communities in southeast Tennessee and Georgia.
Independent Healthcare Properties and Morning Pointe Senior Living presented its Exceeding Expectations awards every year to acknowledge top performing team members in its 35 communities in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Darden has been with Morning Pointe for 11 years, starting her career as a second shift nurse at Morning Pointe of Hixson before transferring to the resident services director position at The Lantern at Morning Pointe Alzheimer’s Center of Excellence, Collegedale, where she remained for over five years. Now, as lead nurse at the Chattanooga Lantern, she also works with many of her colleagues from her time in Collegedale.
When selecting her as the Exceeding Expectations winner, Morning Pointe leadership cited Darden’s instrumental role in staffing and training in the wake of an EF3 tornado that devastated much of the East Brainerd community earlier this year — including Morning Pointe Senior Living communities on Shallowford Road — as well as her many years of advocacy for associates and residents, as particularly noteworthy.