On Oct. 18, capping a poster session at Langford Auditorium, winners of the second annual Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention (QSRP) Pursuit of Excellence Awards were recognized.
Open to all Vanderbilt University Medical Center organizational entities, care areas, teams and departments, the annual awards program recognizes and celebrates improvement work going on across the enterprise.
All quality improvement projects were eligible to be submitted prior to the July 1 deadline, and more than 80 submissions were received from across all entities within VUMC. From these posters, 24 finalists were chosen. Each poster went through three rounds of judging, including an evaluation by a quality professional, an executive leader, and research professional or patient/family advisory representative.
All 24 finalists were invited to share their work at the poster session prior to the awards ceremony, where a winner was announced from each entity, along with a VUMC Project of the Year. Winners received their awards from Jenny Slayton, DNP, RN, Senior Vice President, Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention, and C. Wright Pinson, MBA, MD, Deputy CEO and Chief Health System Officer.
“The VUMC Pursuit of Excellence Awards is an energizing event highlighting the great quality and patient safety work of our team members,” Slayton said. “It was exciting to see so many of our staff, physicians and leaders gathered to review the finalists and celebrate our winners. This exemplifies VUMC’s commitment to quality and patient safety as part of our journey as a high-reliability organization. We thank all our team members for making this event a success and their commitment to quality and patient safety every day.”
Please see the list below for the winners from each entity.
- Laura Jarosemich, Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital: TeamSTEPPS Impact on Falls.
- Nicole Eichenseer, Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital: Improving JHFRAT Scoring Accuracy to Decrease Falls.
- Andrea Glover, Hannah Harts, Kylie Pitman, Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital: Pressure Injury Reduction.
- Angel Whitaker, Kerri Laughlin, Megan Martin, Vanderbilt Bedford County Hospital: Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection Prevention: Focus on Device Days Reduction.
- Andrew Ezzell, Christi Armstrong, Jorge Hurtado Perez, Lucy Williams, Jessica Williams, Vanderbilt University Hospital: Less Pressure, More Prevention.
- Michelle Dunlap, Ambulatory: Improving Health Equity with the Use of the Patient Portal.
- Angela Janico, Cindy Childress, Vanderbilt Health Services: Fall Reduction Program at Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital.
- Amanda Mock, Sarah Watson, Jessie Gurman, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt: Decreasing Serious Peripheral IV Infiltrations and Extravasations through Improved Recognition and Faster Antidote Treatment Times.
The Monroe Carell project was named the VUMC Project of the Year, with several members from the project team on hand to celebrate.
