2007
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise, ID
For outstanding work in creating a multidisciplinary diabetes management plan which enables the health care team to provide quality care to patients with diabetes by promoting optimal glycemic control.
For successfully improving patient safety by utilizing a team collaborative effort to hospital MRSA reduction demonstrated by multiple approaches including implementing an active surveillance program for MRSA.
Caribou Memorial Hospital, Soda Springs, ID
For successfully improving patient outcomes by improving nurse professionalism, collaboration, morale, and reducing turnover by implementing a Shared Governance in the Nursing Department.
Trinity Mission Health and Rehab of Holly, LP, Nampa, ID
For outstanding work in formulating and implementing a team approach to wound management, thus reducing the incidence of pressure sores, stasis ulcers, and non-pressure sores.
Pocatello Family Medicine, Pocatello, ID
For successfully improving their quality and patient safety processes through implementation of a “Quality of Culture Project.” As a result of their work, Pocatello Family Medicine has been singled out by Medicare and Idaho Medicaid as one of the few in the nation that can readily generate reliable clinic data.
Helping Hands Home Health, Pocatello, ID
For outstanding work in the reduction of acute care hospitalizations by implementing an effective referral and assessment process to identify ‘high risk’ patients, and improving communication between the different disciplines.
2006
Dayton General Hospital, Dayton, WA
Development of a Systems Approach to Medication Reconciliation
Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA
Implementing a Web-based System for Reporting Errors and Unusual Occurrences
Lance Heineccius, Seattle, WA
Helping Launch the Puget Sound Health Alliance
Memorial Home Care Services, Yakima, WA
Reduction of Acute Care Re-hospitalization
Multicare Health System, Tacoma, WA
Improvement of Care for Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
Regency at Puyallup Rehabilitation Center, Puyallup, WA
Reduction of Pressure Ulcers in High Risk Nursing Home Residents
2005
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA
A Multidisciplinary Parenteral Nutrition Ordering Model
Northwest Kidney Centers, Seattle, WA
Correction of Metabolic Acidosis
Providence Hospice & Home Care of Snohomish County, Everett, WA
Improvement in Wound Status
Sound Family Medicine, Puyallup, WA
EMR and Database Use in a Hypertension Improvement Project
Swedish Physicians, Seattle, WA
Targeting Diabetes with the Chronic Care Model
