Beebe Healthcare recognizes employee quality initiatives at banquet

Beebe Healthcare recognized employees and physicians for their dedication and commitment to high-quality patient care during the Sixth Annual Quality and Safety Awards Banquet recently held at Kings Creek Country Club.

The evening represented the culmination of a year’s work by 20 teams made up of a total of more than 100 Beebe team members who had designed and implemented process improvement initiatives impacting the quality of patient care. Stephen Fanto, MD, chairman of the board of directors' Quality and Safety Committee, recognized the three winning teams by presenting them with their awards.

The Home Therapy-Continuous Infusion Administration of Chemotherapy team, composed of pharmacists and infusion nurses from Tunnell Cancer Center and nurses from Beebe Home Health Care, developed a better way to provide chemotherapy to patients at home that is more efficient and more comfortable for the patients and more cost effective for Beebe.

The Use of Positive Patient Identification for Specimen Collection for Nurse Draws in Cerner team, composed of nurses from clinical informatics (nurses who liaison with IT specialists) and Beebe’s IT department, created a more efficient and reliable way through the use of electronic medical records to document information regarding the collection of blood and other specimens by nurses.

The Impacting Practice at the Bedside - Beebe’s Nursing Peer Review Program team, comproed of members of Beebe’s Nursing Quality Council, developed a protocol on how to identify, analyze and improve nursing practices so the best possible patient outcomes are realized.

“These awards recognize the three winning teams, as well as the other 18 teams that submitted applications for this year’s Quality and Safety Awards banquet,” said Jeffrey M. Fried, president and CEO of Beebe Healthcare. “Each year, we are thrilled to see the innovative and thoughtful ideas that our team members come up with to improve our internal processes and systems for the benefit of our patients. Beebe Healthcare continues on a journey to becoming a high-reliability organization, and these awards represent the progress we have made over the past year.”