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National Leader - Fairview Health Services
Fairview Health Services is
recognized throughout Minnesota and the United States for providing the best
in medicine.
Fairview
Health Services was honored by the Minnesota
Hospital Association, receiving four of the ten awards presented at the 2003
annual recognition event. The association represents the state’s 140 non-profit
hospitals and 19 care systems. Two individuals and two teams received recognition
for outstanding contributions to health care in Minnesota. Each recipient or
group of recipients was chosen following review of nominations from across the
state. Competition was stiff; many other worthy programs, some from within
our own system, were also nominated. (January 2003)
Stephen Rogness Distinguished
Service: David R. Page, president and CEO, Fairview Health Services
Mr. Page has set aggressive goals
to create measurable improvements in patient care and safety both within Fairview
Health Services and within the health care nationally. He was also the first
recipient of the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety’s award for Individual
Leadership in Patient Safety.
David Page actively works to improve
patient safety through involvement with national and local organizations, including
National Patient Safety Foundation where he chair the Stand Up for Patient Safety
campaign.
Safest in America CEO committee;
MHA board of directors chair; United Way of the Greater Twin Cities Area community
fund raising campaign; College of St. Catherine board of directors; Faith In
the City, a consortium of Lutheran organizations promoting quality of life in
our communities; and KARE 11 Foundation board of directors.
Trustee of the Year: Royce
Sanner, board of directors, Fairview Health Services
Royce Sanner has been focused
on improving the health care delivery system in our community for nearly 25
years that he has served on hospital boards in the Fairview system. His personal
values are consistent with Fairview’s corporate values: integrity, dignity,
compassion and service. Through work merging the University of Minnesota Hospital
and Clinics, re-defining and streamlining the governance structure and strengthening
the human resources function, Mr. Sanner has contributed significantly to maintaining
a sound health care system and keeping health care accessible to our community.
Caregiver of the Year: SANE
and EN CARE, Fairview Lakes Regional Health Care Center
Emergency department nurses were
inspired to reduce injury and death in their community. Lack of local expertise
in collecting evidence following a sexual assault meant that appropriate testing
was not timely or consistent, making prosecution difficult if not impossible.
As a result, many sexual assault cases in Chisago County were not prosecuted.
Five registered nurses took the initiative to seek training as Sexual Assault
Nurse Examiners (SANE) and agreed to rotate responsibility for carrying a 24-hour
emergency beeper. Since August 1999, these five women have collected evidence
following 42 sexual assaults.
Their SANE training raised awareness
of another program that partners Emergency department nurses with the community
organizations to reduce preventable injuries and deaths through education on
healthy lifestyles. Emergency nurses care (EN CARE) nurses have presented information
on the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse, and the deadly consequences of drinking,
driving and failing to use seatbelts to more than 2,000 students in the Forest
Lake, Chisago Lakes and Pine City schools and at a monthly Youth Services Bureau
program for at-risk children. Using pictures and stories from their Emergency
Room experience, the nurses are making their point and reducing injury and death
by teens.
Community
Health: Suicide Prevention Team, Fairview Lakes Regional Health Care Center
Fairview Lakes Regional Health
Center was concerned when the 2001 Minnesota Student Survey reported that 11%
of Forest Lake’s ninth grade females indicated they had tried to kill themselves
in the past year. Together with the area schools, they decided to launch suicide
prevention activities through a partnership with members from Washington County
Public Health, Tri-County Youth and Family Partnership, and Forest Lake School
District staff, along with the Youth Service Bureau, Human Services Inc., youth
ministers from area churches, Forest Lakes Area High School students, concerned
senior citizens, parents from the community and the Chain of Lakes YMCA. As
a result of efforts in five focus areas, suicide isn’t a forbidden topic anymore.
Facts about suicide and its prevention are getting out, and people in the community
are becoming educated and taking an active role in preventing suicide among
youth.
Fairview-University
Medical Center was selected for a Spirit of Excellence Team Award by
Sodexho and Modern Healthcare. The award recognized F-UMC’s reduced nurse turnover
and reduced clinical-care vacancy rates. Initiatives cited include expanding
nursing intern program, conducting a 100-day recruiting campaign, hiring two
retention officers and developing a alumni program to keep in touch with former
employees. Fairview Southdale
Hospital also conducted a recruiting and retention program, achieving
similar results. (December 2002)
Fairview
Ridges Hospital was named a top 100 hospital by Solucient and reported
in Modern Healthcare. Ridges, selected for the third time, is the only Twin
Cities metro hospital listed in 2002 The selection was based on quality of
care, efficient, well-tuned operation and a healthy bottom line. (December
9, 2002)
Steven Meisel, PharmD,
assistant director of Pharmacy at Fairview
Southdale Hospital was a recipient of the Institute for Safe Medication
Practices’ Fifth Annual Cheers award. The award recognizes outstanding individual
leadership in medication error prevention. (December 2002)
Information Week placed Fairview
Health Services number 67 in its top 500 business-technology rankings.
Nationally, only 10 health care-related organizations were recognized. The
award focuses on companies that bring value to their customers or patients.
In Fairview’s case that included bringing tools for enhancing clinical excellence
such as the electronic medical records system. (September 2002)
Fairview Health Services
was selected as a national Island of Hope, one of four exemplary end-of-life
care programs. Means to a Better End: A Report on Dying in America Today,
found that most end-of-life care to be no better than mediocre. Fairview Health
Services is the only health care system identified, selected in part due to
the broad scope of our approach to improving care for this population. The
report was conducted by Last Acts, a coalition care and caring near the end
of life. (November 2002)
Fairview President and CEO David Page
received the first Individual Leadership in Patient Safety Award presented
by the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety. The group, a consortium of 50
health care and business organizations statewide dedicated to improving patient
safety, announced the award at its inaugural statewide patient safety conference.
Safety efforts during Page's tenure include creating a patient safety vice president
position, including safety as part of Fairview's vision and strategic direction,
as well as receiving recognition as the 2000 National Patient Safety Foundation
Innovative Clinical Solution Award for a medication safety project at Fairview
Southdale Hospital. Fairview decreased potential harm to cardiac patients through
an interdisciplinary model for reducing intravenous complications. (November
2002)
Fairview-University
Medical Center was again among the prestigious
"America's Best Hospitals," named by U.S. News & World Report.
The rankings cite Fairview-University's excellence for inpatient care in cancer,
geriatrics and kidney disease. (July 2002)
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