UnityPoint Health – Fort Dodge announced three providers have received the UHC MA Hero Award (United Hero Award), as given by UnitedHealthcare.

They are:

• Shannon Fecher, advanced registered nurse practitioner, UnityPoint Clinic Family Medicine – Second Avenue North

• Dr. Dustin Smith, UnityPoint Clinic Family Medicine – Eagle Grove

• Dr. Aaron Peimann, UnityPoint Clinic Kenyon Road – Family Medicine

Providers receive the United Hero Award for high patient experience scores on surveys sent to UnitedHealthcare patients. The overall patient experience score includes results from three categories: getting needed care, care coordination, and doctor/patient conversations.

With multiple questions in each of these categories, Fecher, Smith and Peimann all received exceptionally high scores, as rated by their patients.