Compassion

In October 2007, February 2008, and May 2008, nurses from NNICU, PICU, and General Pediatrics, along with OB, Pediatric, and Family Practice physicians went to Nuevo Progreso, Mexico to set up and participate in a Medical Mission Clinic, partnering with the local Mabel White Baptist Church. They provided their supplies and ran the Clinic for 2 days. They performed health assessments, provided wound care and medical supplies and educated the local citizens with the assistance of interpreters. The population served were newborns to gerians. Cyndee Adams, RN, Director, General Pediatrics, recounts the story of a man that walked for hours to get to their clinic to discover that he was diabetic. “He had huge diabetic ulcers. We provided wound care and antibiotics. He stayed in the Clinic for 2 nights so we could follow up with his wounds. It was an amazing result, just after 2 days.”

Excellence, Integrity, Diversity and Service:

MCCG nurses have been the proud recipients of NINE AACN Circle of Excellence awards in 2007 and 2008. Staff nurses Laura Stevens, RN, BSN and Nikki Evans, RN, BSN both won Excellence in Caring Practices Awards. Becky Etheridge, RN from our Cardiovascular ICU, received recognition for Community Service. Edna Wilbanks, RN, MSN, CCRN also of CVICU, was awarded as a 2008 “Excellent Preceptor” based on an exemplar written by one of her former new graduate orientees. The Director of CCC, Gwendolyn Smith, RN, MSN, received the national Mentoring award in 2007 for her sustained mentoring relationships over her career in critical care.

Other winners in the AACN Circle of Excellence included awards for Leadership. VP Beth Pearson, RN, MSN, received the Excellence in Leadership award & Rebecca Cogburn, RN, BSN, CEN, CCRN, Director of the PICU, was awarded for Excellence in Nursing Management. Finally, two of MCCG’s advanced practice nurses were awarded for their contributions to critical care nursing. Leslie Culpepper, RN, MSN, CCRN, CCNS CCC, was recognized as “Excellent Clinical Nurse Specialist” and Cynthia Loudin, RN,MSN, NP-C from the Pediatric ICU was awarded as “Excellent Nurse Practitioner.”

Awards and recognition come in the form of emails, certificates, letters, plaques and trophies of various types. MCCG as an organization, individual departments or individual nurses receive recognition from professional organizations, businesses, corporations, nursing affiliations, families and more.

We are proud of MCCG’s awards which have included:

2008 / 2009 National Research Corporation (NRC)’s Consumer Choice Award- Quality and Image Profile. According to the NRC, The award identifies those hospitals which healthcare consumers have chosen as having the highest quality and image in over 250 markets throughout the U.S. Winners are determined by consumer perceptions on multiple quality and image ratings collected in the company's Healthcare Market Guide Ticker study. Of the 3,200 hospitals named by consumers in the study, the winning facilities rank highest in their Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), as defined by the US Census Bureau. The Healthcare Market Guide Ticker study surveyed over 200,000 households representing over 400,000 consumers in the contiguous 48 states and the District of Columbia. The 2008/09 Healthcare Market Guide is the nation's largest and most comprehensive study of its kind. No other study used to measure hospital performance and consumer preferences contains more responses than NRC's study. The study has a margin of error of + or 0.2 percent at a national level. (10.9a)

MCCG consistently ranks in the top of hospitals in Georgia for organ donation, which impacts patients in multiple communities across the SE region and beyond. In 2008, MCCG was recognized at both state and national levels for having donation conversion rates >75% by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration and Lifelink.

In May 2007 we received the Thomson Healthcare Insight Award (10.9b) for significant reductions in supply costs which allow us to improve healthcare in the community via improved resource allocation.

We received awards in 2005 and 2006 from the Georgia Partnership for Health and Accountability for two projects with community ramifications; one to eliminate drug abbreviations throughout our continuum and the other related to core measures which extends to our rural partners in our community network.

Medical Center of Central Georgia
Eliminating Dangerous Drug Abbreviations: Having "High Hopes" and High Expectations Team Leader: Vickie Stuckey, MSN, RN, Patient Safety Coordinator

Medical Center of Central Georgia
"A Leadership Team Committed to Improving Patient Outcomes as Defined by AMI Core Measures"
Suellen Richardson, MSN, RN, AVP Georgia Heart Center

We have written for, and received, several VHA awards in the past two years.

• 2007 VHA clinical excellence award for throughput improvements which impact our community through improved access to care, decreased turnaround times, and decreased length of stay.

• 2006 VHA President’s Award. This was a national award received by MCCG for its’ clinical and operational excellence. MCCG was only one of 11 VHA hospitals nationwide to win this award. Recognizing our Magnet® designation as well as overall supply chain cost savings, this was a prestigious award.

• 2006 VHA award for cardiac supply chain improvements. This achievement recognized cost savings for our community in the cardiac invasive and noninvasive arena

In 2007 and 2006, we received the Vascular Excellence Award from Healthgrades.
 

The Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals (GACH) has been working for the best interests of community not-for-profit hospitals and Georgia's health care consumers since its' founding in 1983. The Alliance's mission is to foster goodwill among community health care professionals; to advocate the enactment of sound laws, rules and regulations affecting community hospitals; to conduct and disseminate research and to share ideas that improve the health care delivery system in Georgia.

In 2005 we received the Hospital of the Year Runner Up award from GACH for community service.

Examples of the recognition or awards our nurses have received include the following:

• Barbara Smith-Weaver, RN, NNICU, the Music Therapy Community Partner Award by GCSU, 2008.

• AACN awarded Becky Ethridge, RN, CVICU, Community Service Award, 2007.
• Sheryl Adams, RN, 3W- A letter from SON Chair Rebecca Corvey recognizing her for teaching MSC nursing students and thank you note for Maredith Evans, RN, 3W, from Walmart for organizing a renal awareness health fair.

Maredith is shown below checking a blood pressure:

• Brenda Kerr, RN, 6Main, received a certificate from the Greater Bellevue Baptist Church Life Center (10.9c) for her participation in the 6Main Community Health Fair
• World Changers sent a letter to Sabrina Hering, RN, FBC thanked her for her participation for the third year.
• GEICO sent a letter (10.9d) to Theresa Ledrick, RN, 4East, and other RNs from 4E to thank them for their participation.
• Karen Matson, RN, CHOPS, received a commendation for her sickle cell presentation to the Dooly County PTA as shown below:



 

• Kris Collins, RN, PICU, received a certificate from Georgia Child Identification Program (GACHIP) for participation in GACHIP program sponsored by Masonic District 6-B. She is shown below:

• LifeLink of Georgia has many letters (10.9f) for organ donation to units or individuals within the units.  
• Macon Northside Hospital recognized Barbara Smith-Weaver, RN, NNICU, for 80 hours of community service in doing assessments, vaccinations, health screening. (10.9g)
• Glennis Hirst, RN, 5East, was formally recognized via letter for her for “reaches out to Haiti” mission trip by the Universal Light Christian Center and for her participation in the Georgia Faith Based Community of Georgia Health Fair. Glennis is shown seated in the left corner of the picture below:




 

• Disabled American Veterans 2008 Commanders Club sent a certificate to Autumn Perry, RN, CHC for serving as a Gold Leader. (10.9h)
• Air Force Reserve Command Spouses sent a letter to Opal Preston, RN, ADU, for coordinating an auction to raise money for families of deployed airman.

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