The Oklahoma Hospital Association (OHA) recently honored five member hospitals with its 2025 Excellence in Clinical Quality & Safety Awards during the Association’s annual conference.
These prestigious awards recognize organizations demonstrating outstanding progress in clinical quality performance, advancing practices, strengthening capabilities, and achieving measurable improvements in patient outcomes. This distinction represents the highest level of professional acknowledgment from both the OHA board of directors and the OHA council on quality & patient safety.
This year, 19 hospitals submitted applications, which were evaluated by quality leaders from hospital associations across the country.
Each submission was scored on several criteria: identifying a project tied to a specific organizational need, implementing innovative and evidence-based interventions, demonstrating quantifiable results, sustaining or expanding the improvement, and contributing to statewide learning and best-practice sharing.
Awards were presented across four categories based on hospital size, including a designated category for specialty hospitals.
“The goals of the awards are to recognize hospital improvements in care, create a platform for best practice sharing, and foster innovation across Oklahoma,” said Emily Coppock, OHA vice president of clinical excellence.
2025 Excellence in Clinical Quality and Safety Awardees are:
Less than 25 beds:
Rural Wellness Anadarko
Project Title: Project NØ CLABSI
Submitted by: Kayleigh Roath, Quality
26–100 beds:
Bailey Medical Center, Owasso
Project Title: Cleaning Hands Saves Lives
Submitted by: Ashley Bellinger, Infection Prevention
More than 300 beds:
INTEGRIS Health Southwest Medical Center, Oklahoma City
Project Title: Surgical Excellence: Driving Down Infections Through Optimization and Collaboration
Submitted by: Tami Inman, Infection Prevention
More than 300 beds:
OU Health University of Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City
Project Title: Sepsis Process Improvement
Submitted by: Laurie Hensley-Wojcieszyn, Quality
Specialty hospital:
INTEGRIS Mental Health Spencer
Project Title: Agitation to Action: Restraint Workflow Standardization
Submitted by: Shari McCalip, Quality
