Quality Safety and Risk Prevention

Award winners pose for a photo during the second annual Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention Pursuit of Excellence Awards event in Langford Auditorium. (photo by Erin O. Smith)

Award program celebrates improvement work across the VUMC enterprise

The overall winner was a project at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt to prevent peripheral IV infiltrations and extravasations.

VUMC awarded PCORI funding to improve antibiotic prescribing for childhood respiratory infections

The pediatric outpatient antibiotic stewardship project is the first implementation project funded at VUMC as part of the PCORI Health Systems Implementation Initiative, which aims to reduce the estimated 17-year gap between evidence publication and clinical application.

The Vanderbilt University Hospital group poses for a photo during the 2nd Annual QSRP Good Catch and Safety Superhero Celebration. (photo by Erin O. Smith)

Celebration honors staff and faculty for modeling safety, quality 

Award winners were honored at the annual celebration hosted by the Office of Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention.

Vanderbilt hospitals land high Leapfrog safety grades

Three Vanderbilt hospitals have been recognized by the Leapfrog group as among the safest in the United States.

Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH), Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital (VBH) and Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital (VWCH) all received a fall 2023 safety grade of “A.”

VUMC’s first Pursuit of Excellence Award winners include, from left, Johnny Woodard, MSN, RN-BC, Tiffany Lewis, MSN, RN, Kevin Harvey, BSN, RN VA-BC, Jarylin Bishop, BSN, RN, Randy Cox, MPH, CPPS, Phil Cook, MHA, Bill Wester, MD, MPH, Cristin Fritz, MD, MPH.

New award program celebrates improvement work across the VUMC enterprise

Winner’s of this year’s Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention Pursuit of Excellence Awards were recognized during a poster session and ceremony held recently in Langford Auditorium.

Jenny Slayton, DNP, RN, receives the Outstanding Operational Partner Award from Gordon Bernard, MD.

Slayton receives award for uniting research, clinical operations

Jenny Slayton, DNP, RN, received the Outstanding Operational Partner Award recently at the Vanderbilt Symposium on Implementation Research in the Learning Health System.

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