System and Hospital Awards: August 2019

• All of Premier Health’s maternity facilities – Atrium Medical Center, Miami Valley Hospital, Miami Valley Hospital South and Upper Valley Medical Center – have achieved re-certification through Ohio First Steps for Healthy Babies, a voluntary statewide breastfeeding initiative launched by the Ohio Department of Health and Ohio Hospital Association to reduce the state’s high infant mortality rate. In 2017, Premier Health became the first health care system in Ohio whose maternity centers implemented all Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, as defined by the World Health Organization and Baby-Friendly USA, to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding.
• Marquita Turner has been recognized with the Distinguished Alumni Award as part of Miami Regionals’ annual nursing alumni awards program for her unique dual role as Atrium’s chief nursing officer and chief operating officer. As CNO, Turner is responsible for delivery of patient care at the Middletown hospital that in January earned Magnet Recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, joining only 8 percent of U.S. hospitals to hold the four-year designation recognized as professional nursing’s highest honor. As COO, equipped with a Master of Business Administration degree from Indiana Wesleyan University, Turner is responsible for quality, safety, performance, efficiency and the overall patient experience.
• Atrium Medical Center’s Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Services has been recognized with a national award for clinical excellence. The Robert A. Warriner III, M.D., Center of Excellence award was presented by Healogics, the nation’s leading and largest wound care management company. The award recognizes outstanding clinical outcomes for at least two consecutive years, including patient satisfaction higher than 92 percent, and a wound healing rate of at least 91 percent in less than 30 median days.
• Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Services at Miami Valley Hospital South recently received the Center of Distinction Award, which was given by Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. The center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for 12 consecutive months, including patient satisfaction higher than 92 percent, and a minimum wound healing rate of at least 91 percent within 30 median days to heal. There were 621 centers eligible for the Center of Distinction award, and 423 achieved the honor. Leading edge treatments at the Wound Care Center at Miami Valley Hospital South include negative pressure wound therapy, total contact casting, bio-engineered tissues, biosynthetic dressings and growth factor therapies. The center also offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which works by surrounding the patient with 100 percent oxygen to help heal the wound.
• The Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Services at Upper Valley Medical Center has been recognized with a national award for clinical excellence. The Robert A. Warriner III, MD, Center of Excellence award was presented by Healogics, the nation’s largest wound care management company. The award recognizes outstanding clinical outcomes for at least two consecutive years, including patient satisfaction higher than 92 percent, and a wound healing rate of at least 91 percent in less than 30 median days. The Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Services at UVMC opened in 2015 to take a leading role in battling a growing health care crisis. The center has provided more than 1,485 patients specialized treatment, often preventing amputations and helping patients return to active lives.
• UVMC was recognized recently as part of the Door to Needle Challenge, a new program that involves each Premier Health TeleStroke Network site and each quarter recognizes the lowest tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) time for a stroke patient. UVMC won for the first quarter of 2019 with a time of 24 minutes. The national goal for tPA door to needle is less than 60 minutes. Team members involved received a certificate from the American Heart Association.
• Liberty Family Medicine, which opened in November 2018 in Liberty Twp., was recognized during the annual Everest Awards hosted by the West Chester Liberty Chamber Alliance. The event honors business leaders from the Dayton and Cincinnati areas.
• In recognition of Earth Month, the Ohio Hospital Association named Miami Valley Hospital as the recipient of the 2019 Melvin Creeley Environmental Leadership Award. Melvin Creeley Environmental Leadership Award honorees are recognized for promoting sound environmental practices through environmental stewardship and exemplifying the best practices for other hospitals to follow. Miami Valley Hospital received this recognition as the result of an aggressive approach to improving the hospital’s environmental stewardship. Some of the advances made include: green roofs, pharmaceutical waste management, environmentally friendly cleaning chemicals, changes and adjustments in facilities utilities management, less water and energy used, solvents used in labs converted to re-use and not disposed as hazardous waste, and grinding kitchen food waste through a pulper for food scrap collection and compost.

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