HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) today presented the 2016 HCA Healthcare
Awards of Distinction to recipients at a ceremony in Nashville. The HCA
Healthcare Awards of Distinction include the Frist Humanitarian Award,
the HCA Innovators Award and the HCA Excellence in Nursing Award. These
annual awards celebrate employees, physicians and volunteers who
exemplify the company’s culture and values.
The Frist Humanitarian Award recognizes the highest achievements in
serving others; the HCA Innovators Award recognizes creative new ideas
for enhancing quality of care and efficiency; and the HCA Excellence in
Nursing Award recognizes the highest levels of performance in the field
of nursing.
“The HCA Healthcare Awards of Distinction celebrate some of HCA’s finest
employees, physicians and volunteers who live out our company’s values
and mission every day,” said Milton Johnson, HCA’s chairman and chief
executive officer. “Our HCA Healthcare Awards of Distinction recipients
have demonstrated that delivering healthcare the way it was intended –
compassionate, patient-centered, community-focused – makes a difference
in the lives of our patients, our communities and beyond.”
Frist Humanitarian Award Recipients
The Frist Humanitarian Award, named in honor of one of HCA’s
co-founders, Dr. Thomas F. Frist, Sr. (1910 – 1998), was created in
1971. The award honors individuals within HCA who demonstrate a level of
commitment and caring that goes beyond everyday acts of kindness, and
who inspire colleagues with their compassion, dedication and spirit.
Employees, volunteers and physicians who provide outstanding care and
demonstrate humanitarianism are selected from around the country, and
honorees are recognized at the local level.
The Frist Humanitarian Award includes a $5,000 donation to the charity
of the recipient’s choice and $5,000 for the employee or volunteer. The
physician honoree receives a $10,000 donation to the charity of his or
her choice.
Recipients of the 45th annual Frist Humanitarian Award are: Leolalinda
Petinglay Plameras, RN, BSN, an ICU nurse at Doctors Hospital of
Augusta in Augusta, Georgia; Mark Stavros, MD, medical director
of emergency services at West Florida Hospital in Pensacola, Florida;
and Beverly Ford, a volunteer in the emergency room at Medical
City Lewisville in Lewisville, Texas.
“The Frist Humanitarian Award recipients recognized today have worked
selflessly to improve the lives of people in need, in their communities
and around the world,” said Johnson. “Their commitment to the care and
improvement of human life inspires all of us to continue the
philanthropic work of HCA’s founders.”
Leolalinda Petinglay Plameras, RN, BSN, has worked as an ICU
nurse at Doctors Hospital of Augusta for eight years and founded Agape
Children and Christian Ministries, an organization that provides
resources for at-risk youth. Plameras is known in her community for her
fearless determination to make a difference and has inspired her
colleagues to join her efforts through collection drives hosted at
Doctors Hospital of Augusta. She also is involved in humanitarian work
in the Philippines, opening a Christian radio station and purchasing a
rice field to help feed the staff of the radio station and those in need.
Mark Stavros, MD, has worked at West Florida Hospital for 17
years and also serves as clinical faculty at the Florida State
University College of Medicine. For the past fourteen years, Dr. Stavros
has traveled annually to Central America on medical mission trips,
piloting a telemedicine health delivery project to expand medical care
in rural Panama and establishing a nonprofit organization to help
sponsor aspiring medical students from Panama.
Beverly Ford has volunteered at Medical City Lewisville for eight
years, logging more than 2,400 volunteer hours during this time. As a
dedicated emergency room volunteer, Ford handles the fast pace and often
stressful environment with ease and has been known to volunteer on
holidays, including Christmas Day. Beyond her work at the hospital, Ford
also serves the Texas Ramp Project, a nonprofit organization that builds
wheelchair ramps for the elderly and disabled, and serves the Lewisville
Fire Department Reserves, providing supplies and rehabilitation for
first responders.
HCA Innovators Award Recipients
HCA was created through the vision of founders Dr. Thomas F. Frist, Sr.,
Mr. Jack Massey and Dr. Thomas “Tommy” Frist, Jr., and nearly 50 years
later, the company continues to invent and develop systems to advance
health and patient care, in large part due to ideas from employees. The
HCA Innovators Award, established in 2010, continues the tradition of
recognizing innovative thinkers whose ideas improve patient quality,
service or the efficiency of operations. The HCA Innovators Award
winners receive $10,000.
Recipients of the 2016 HCA Innovators Award are: Fred Webster,
director of physician and provider relations for West Valley Medical
Center in Caldwell, Idaho; Hunter Davis, director of IT&S at
Portsmouth Regional Hospital in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Sean Albert,
director of application services for the Capital division in Richmond,
Virginia; and Mohammed Elayan, PharmD, BCOP, clinical pharmacist
with the Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at TriStar Centennial Medical
Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
“Innovation has been a core driver of our company’s success since our
founding, and today, innovation continues to pave new paths to help us
serve our patients,” said Sam Hazen, president and chief operating
officer of HCA. “This year’s winners of the HCA Innovators Award have
developed forward-thinking solutions to improve processes and service
delivery, resulting in safer care and a better patient experience.”
Fred Webster received the HCA Innovators Award in the service
excellence category. Webster’s innovative approach to surgical
scheduling, using a database and algorithm, streamlines the scheduling
process and improves the experience for patients, physicians and
employees.
Hunter Davis and Sean Albert received the HCA Innovators
Award in the quality and patient safety category. While working together
in the IT&S department of HCA’s Capital division, they created an
application called IV Guardian, which proactively alerts nurses about
potential IV medication errors, improving patient safety and reducing IV
alarms which helps provide a better patient experience.
Mohammed Elayan, PharmD, BCOP, received the HCA Innovators Award
in the financial impact category. Some patients require a different
amount of medication than what is in a standard dose, and this can
result in wasted leftover medication. Dr. Elayan developed a dosing
strategy that produces the desired therapeutic results for patients
while minimizing medication waste.
HCA Excellence in Nursing Award Recipients
HCA’s knowledgeable and compassionate nurses are on the front line of
patient care, every day. The HCA Excellence in Nursing Award, created in
2014, recognizes the intrinsic value of the nursing practice in
accomplishing the company mission of providing the highest quality of
care to patients and communities. With categories for mentoring and
compassionate care, the HCA Excellence in Nursing Award recipients
receive $5,000 and a $5,000 donation to the charity of their choice.
Recipients of the 2016 HCA Excellence in Nursing Award are: Teresa
Bolido, RN, charge nurse on the progressive care unit at Alaska
Regional Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska; Karen Giovengo, RN, MSN,
CNL, nursing director of medical, pediatric and oncology at St. Lucie
Medical Center in Port St. Lucie, Florida; Barbara B. Rees, PhD,
RN, nurse leader at Redmond Regional Medical Center in Rome, Georgia;
and Leah Farrell, BSN, RN, clinical nurse coordinator and
educator at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado.
“Every day, I am privileged to witness the compassion, expertise and
patient-centered commitment HCA nurses demonstrate in their varied roles
throughout our company,” said Jane Englebright, PhD, RN, CENP, FAAN,
HCA’s senior vice president and chief nursing officer. “This year’s HCA
Excellence in Nursing Award recipients have excelled in providing
compassionate care as well as exceptional leadership.”
Teresa Bolido, RN, received the HCA Excellence in Nursing Award
in the compassionate care category. Bolido extends kindness,
consideration and concern to all her patients as well as other nurses
and staff. She goes above and beyond to provide individualized,
compassionate care often using outside-the-box approaches such as making
a video of a patient’s grandchildren or singing while taking patients
around the hospital to provide a dose of cheer in otherwise difficult
situations. Bolido’s personalized approach to providing care inspires
her coworkers and makes a difference for her patients and their families.
This year, three nurses were presented with the HCA Excellence in
Nursing Award for professional mentoring.
Karen Giovengo, RN, MSN, CNL, is dedicated to developing others,
leading several programs at St. Lucie Medical Center to help ensure
nurses have opportunities to grow professionally and contributing to the
science and practice of nursing through published articles in
peer-reviewed journals and presentations at six national conferences.
She developed the hospital’s nurse residency program to help train and
mentor new nurses and leads the hospital’s Professional Development
Council, helping ensure resources are available so nurses can pursue
certification in their specialties. Giovengo also is pursuing her doctor
of nursing practice degree.
Barbara B. Rees, PhD, RN, has worked as a nurse for more than 30
years and as a nursing instructor and director of Georgia Highlands
College’s nursing program for 31 years. Throughout her career, Dr. Rees
has combined her love of education and nursing by working part-time as a
nurse while teaching full-time. Now retired from academia, Dr. Rees
remains dedicated to educating and developing new nurses as a preceptor
for nursing students and new graduates at Redmond Regional Medical
Center. She provides encouragement, professional expertise and resources
like textbooks and tutoring to help nursing students and new nurses with
their licensing exams, certification processes and the pursuit of
advanced degrees.
Leah Farrell, BSN, RN, serves as a Clinical Scholar for students
completing clinical rotations at Swedish Medical Center, guiding their
clinical journeys and mentoring them after graduation. Farrell also
started a neurology mentor program, helping train experienced nurses to
serve as effective mentors for new nurses. In addition, she helped
develop and implement multidisciplinary rounds in the neurology unit,
bringing together the various people and departments who care for stroke
victims, resulting in improved patient care and coordination among care
providers. Farrell is enrolled in the adult/gerontology acute care nurse
practitioner program at Walden University and has presented at the
National Critical Care Nurses Association Conference and the American
Academy of Neurology Institute national meeting.
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About HCA Healthcare
Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation's leading providers
of healthcare services, operating 172 locally managed hospitals and 119
freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and the United Kingdom. With
its founding in 1968, HCA created a new model for hospital care in the
United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver
patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine. HCA has
conducted a number of clinical studies, including one that demonstrated
that full-term delivery is healthier than early elective delivery of
babies and another that identified a clinical protocol that can reduce
bloodstream infections in ICU patients by 44 percent. HCA is a learning
healthcare system that uses its more than 27 million annual patient
encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.
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