Franciscan St. Anthony Health - Michigan City is recipient of the National Patient Safety Foundation's Stand Up for Patient Safety Management Award, hospital president Dr. James Callaghan announced this week.
The honor was in recognition of the hospital improving its sentinel lymph node procedure for patients undergoing breast cancer treatment.
The Nuclear Medicine Department designed a process improvement project to study the hospital's lymph node visualization rates and found that by reducing the length of the needles used to inject the radioactive tracer, visualization rates improved to 100 percent in 2010, from 25 percent.
"I continue to be tremendously proud of our staff and physicians, as they continue to give compassionate, expert and innovative care that has repeatedly garnered national and state health care awards. Our community can rest assured that we deliver exceptional care, close to home," Callaghan said.
Genevieve Koehler, hospital director of quality services, said the foundation told her the award was based on "our excellent execution and thoroughness of a wonderful patient safety initiative."
Koehler credited Amy Johns, nuclear medicine technologist supervisor and project leader, and Dr. Richard Dobben, medical director of diagnostic imaging, for being keys to the project’s success, as well as Cheryl Haas, director of diagnostic imaging, and Nancy Wulff, performance improvement analyst.
"I am always looking for ways to recognize the exceptional quality of service that we offer at Franciscan St. Anthony Health - Michigan City, so that our community and surrounding communities will recognize our high standards for excellent, patient-centered care," Koehler added.
The award will be presented at the 13th Annual Patient Safety Congress May 25-27 in Washington, D.C. The foundation was founded in 1997 in an effort to improve and be an advocate for, patient safety care. It has approximately 400 member hospitals, health systems and ambulatory facilities nationwide.
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