The Partnership for Health and Accountability has presented its prestigious Quality and Patient Safety Awards to Navicent Health Baldwin in Milledgeville and The Medical Center, Navicent Health in Macon for projects that improved patient safety and care.
 
NHB was honored for its project that helped reduce medication errors. The project, titled, “Simple as That: How Transparency Reduced Patient Harm in our Community Hospital,” won second place in the Hospitals with 100 to 299 Beds category.
 
MCNH was recognized for its project that improved the care of patients who require ventilators. The project, titled, “Decreasing Ventilator Associated Events and Saving Lives” won first place in the Hospitals with More than 300 Beds category..
 
MCNH was also presented with a Circle of Excellence Award, an honor given to hospitals and health systems that have demonstrated a sustained commitment to quality and patient safety as evidenced by not only winning a patient safety award in 2017, but by earning three or more PHA Patient Safety Awards within the previous five years.
 
“At Navicent Health, we are continually improving our processes in order to ensure we deliver the highest caliber of safe, quality care to each individual patient. We are pleased that two of our hospitals have been rccognized among their peers throughout  the state for their efforts in this area,” said Dr. Ninfa M. Saunders, FACHE, President and CEO of Navicent Health.
 
These annual awards recognize Georgia healthcare organizations for achievement in reducing the risk of medical errors and improving patient safety and medical outcomes.
 
“Ensuring that patients receive the right medication at the right time is vital to patient safety. We applaud Navicent Health Baldwin for its success in this area and for making critical progress in patient safety while ensuring the best and safest care possible for patients,” said Georgia Hospital Association President and CEO Earl Rogers. “Hospitals are diligently working each day to ensure the safety of their patients. We also applaud The Medical Center, Navicent Health for its success in reducing ventilator-associated events and for making critical progress in patient safety while ensuring the best and safest care possible for patients.”