The Oklahoma Hospital Association (OHA) presented Excellence in Quality awards to four hospitals during its recent annual conference. This award recognizes exceptional efforts to improve outcomes in clinical quality performance practices, capabilities, and results, and represents the highest level of professional acknowledgement from the OHA Council on Quality & Patient Safety.
Award applications from OHA hospitals across the state were scored based on their story of a clinical project specific to improving patient safety within the hospital, creating innovative interventions that incorporate evidence-based best practices, demonstrating measurable and quantifiable results, sustaining/spreading the success within the hospital, and stimulating learning for others. Four award categories based on number of beds were recognized.
“The goals of the awards are to recognize outcomes in clinical quality performance practices, capabilities, and results, share best clinical practices, challenges, and successes among Oklahoma hospitals, and stimulate innovation, knowledge and learning in achieving clinical quality and safety in health care among member hospitals,” said Patrice Greenawalt, OHA vice president of quality & clinical initiatives.
2023 awardees for Excellence in Quality are:
Critical Access Hospital and Under 25 beds:
Rural Wellness Anadarko
Project Title: Reduction of Falls for Patient Safety – Submitted by: Rachel Stephens, chief nursing officer
26-100 beds:
Select Specialty Hospital Oklahoma City
Project Title: Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections – Submitted by: Tami Kirk, director of quality management
101-300 beds:
Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Lawton
Project Title: Reduction of Hospital-Acquired Clostridioides difficile – Submitted by: Melissa Alvillar, RN, chief nursing officer
More than 300 beds:
Norman Regional Health System
Project Title: Hip Fracture Morbidity and Mortality – Submitted by: Cathy Snapp, orthopedic program administrator
