Hershey Medical Center presents awards for patient safety, reliability
Hershey Medical Center President Deborah Berini and Director of Patient Safety Steve Mrozowski honored the 2019-2020 Patient Safety and Reliability award winners on Oct. 7.
Recipients exemplify the principles of the Medical Center’s TEAM (Talk Safety, Expect Ownership and Accountability, Act on Opportunities, Monitor) and SAFE (Support the team, Ask questions, Focus on task, Effective Communication) reliability bundles – guides health care workers use to ensure patient safety. They were selected through PAWS Up! submissions.
The awards are part of Hershey Medical Center “It Takes a Team to Reach Zero” initiative. Launched in 2017, the effort focuses on creating zero incidents of preventable harm. The Medical Center’s quality and safety teams created evidence-based leadership methods and error prevention tools and introduced them to the entire Medical Center workforce and to the system’s 68 Medical Group practice sites.
Hershey Medical Center has reduced serious patient safety events by 50 percent in two years.
Winners:
- Ron Cummins, vice president, operations – Leader of the Year Award
- Fahad Khalid – Physician Award
- David Melhorn, director, Security – Non-clinical Award
- Leandra Davis, assistant nurse manager, 6th Floor Medical – Patient Safety Champion Award
- Katarina Kunkel, analyst, Patient Safety and Quality, Patient Safety – Clinical Outpatient Award
- Leonard Shamus, clinical staff leader, Neuroscience Critical Care Unit – Clinical Inpatient Award
- Linda Gangai, program manager, Quality and Patient Safety Outcomes, Emergency Medicine – Patient Safety Coach Award
Team Patient Safety Award Winners
- Blood Bank
- Medical Intermediate Unit
- Patient Transport
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