For the second consecutive year, the New Hanover Regional Medical Center system has earned seven Touchstone Awards from our partner, Atrium Health.
The awards, which will be presented in August at Atrium’s Quality & Patient Experience Sharing Day, are an annual opportunity for Atrium to recognize efforts exhibiting exceptional performance in the areas of patient safety, clinical outcomes, clinical efficiency and service excellence.
“Each of these awards represents the efforts of a team to achieve a single goal – to improve the care we provide to our community,” said Sue Ballato, Quality Administrator at NHRMC.
The awards illustrate NHRMC’s impact across the region, as award winners represent the main campus hospital, NHRMC Physician Group practices, Pender Memorial Hospital and the Betty H. Cameron Women’s & Children’s Hospital.
“The collaboration of front-line staff and clinical leaders drives these accomplishments,” Ballato said. “And they could not be accomplished without the cooperation of multiple departments united to provide the best care for our patients.”
Many of the winning projects were guided by NHRMC’s Lean Strategies department, which helps identify areas of opportunity and leads participants through the problem-solving process.
NHRMC’s 2019 Touchstone Award Winners
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2019 Gold
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Safer Opioid Prescribing: Having the Right Tools at the Right Time
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Kevin Cannon, Lisa Edgerton, Todd Hinshaw, Mackie King, Ned Pourdeyhimi, Michelle Rager, Eddie Seijo, Laurie Whalin, Andy Whitley, Vladimir Vasquez
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Patient Safety
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2019 Silver
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Eliminating Patient Identified Barriers to Care to Decrease Medicaid Inpatient Admission Rates and Improve Quality of Care
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Coastal Family Medicine
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Clinical Efficiency
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Reducing CT Utilization for Pediatric Patients Presenting to the ED with Minor Head Trauma
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Josh Tucker, Joni Mitchem and team
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Patient Safety
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Dental Pain in the Emergency Department
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Claire Corbett, Sandy Mitchell, Abby Roetger, Dorothea Bradley, Shawn Conrad, Stephanie Croom, Eddie Graham, Michael Jaskolka, Joni Mitchem, Karim Peppers, Joshua Tucker, Scott Whisnant, Amber Willenbring, De Winter III
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Patient Experience
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Meeting the Challenge: The Increased Role of a Critical Access Hospital in a Busy Health System
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Pender Memorial Hospital - Sarah Brannan, Kathleen Flynn-Childs, Heather Davis, Cynthia Faulkner, Ruth Glaser, Sejal Patel, Julie Spicka
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Clinical Efficiency
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2019 Bronze
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Aspiration Prevention: It's a Matter of Life or Breath
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Linda Thomas, Laurie Lustiber, Christine Webb, Celeste Stephens, Angela Lago, Savonne Berrios
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Cllinical Outcomes
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Opioid Reduction in Perinatal Services
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Hannah Brownlow, Suzie McCabe
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Patient Safety
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