Leadership Award Winners

Each year VHA Georgia recognizes its members that demonstrated a best practices in health care improvement.  These best practices are submitted as blinded projects that are reviewed and judged by a panel of peer reveiwers.  Those best practices with the highest aggregate scores are awarded a VHA Georgia Regional Leadership Award.  Check out previous award recipeints below:

2011 Award Recipients

Best Overall

• Floyd Medical Center- Using Lean Six Sigma to Reduce Turnaround Times for MRSA/MSSA
• Hamilton Medical Center- Improvement in Cardiac Patient Outcomes
• WellStar Cobb Hospital- Blood Conservation Improving Safety and Quality Through Evidence based Electronic order Sets

Best Results and Outcomes

• Floyd Medical Center- Reducing Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI)
• Hamilton Medical Center- Improvement in Cardiac Patient Outcomes
• WellStar Paulding- Administrative Approach to Physician Engagement

Most Innovative

• DeKalb Medical - Four Disciplines of Execution Improves patient Satisfaction Scores
• Floyd Medical Center - Assisting Patients with Their Insurance or COBRA Premiums
• WellStar Cobb Hospital - Blood Conservation Improving Safety and Quality Through Evidence based Electronic order Sets

Most Sustainable

• Floyd Medical Center- Using Lean Six Sigma to Reduce Turnaround Times for MRSA/MSSA
• University Health, Inc.- Infection Risk Reduction for Breast Surgery Patients
• WellStar Health System - Reduction of Elective Deliveries Before 39 Weeks gestation Using a Multi-Faceted Quality Improvement Approach 

Most Transferable

• Floyd Medical Center - Reducing Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI)
• Grady Health System - Escalation and De-Escalation Plan for Carbapenem-Resistant Gram Negative Organisms in Critical Care
• WellStar Cobb Hospital - Radiology Ambassador Program

2010 Award Recipients

Clinical Excellence

• Floyd Medical Center - Reducing Hospital Acquired Infections by Enhancing Patient Care Bundles
• Gwinnett Health System, Inc. - RY Strategies To Prevent the Incidence of Healthcare Associated Symptomatic Catheter Associated Urinary Catheter
• WellStar Health System - Providing Safe Care by reducing Incidence of Clostridium Difficile

Operational Excellence

• Columbus Regional Healthcare System - Applying Lean In The Emergency Department to Improve Throughput
• Floyd Medical Center - Implementing a Lean Six Sigma Initiative
• WellStar Health System - Sustaining and Improving Financial Performance through system Wide Improvement Initiative

Supply Chain Excellence

• Floyd Medical Center - Medication use Evaluation: Tygacil
• WellStar Health System - New and Improved Value Analysis Program
• WellStar Health System - Operating Room Inventory Redesign/Reduction/Management Project

Community Benefit Excellence

• Floyd Medical Center - Appling strategy to a Mobile Mammography Outreach Initiative
• Houston Healthcare - Seniorcare Stroke Prevention Program
• Houston Healthcare - Preparing for Disaster: Decontamination Communication and Community Awareness