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Lee Memorial Health System has a goal of being the best
patient-centered health care system in the state of Florida.
Independent entities below have confirmed Lee Memorial Health
System's commitment to the community.
MOST RECENT AWARD RECOGNITIONS
May 2008
LMHS Earns National Recognition for Visioning
Project The National
Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems announced LMHS
earned Honorable Mention in the category of "Community Engagement"
for the System's Community Health Visioning 2017 project
which was launched in the spring of 2007 after the purchase of
SWFRMC and GCH. The purpose of the Visioning was to create a
shared vision for the future of health care in our area.
LMHS Honored by The Florida Nurses Association
with the 2008 Frances Smith Clinical Excellence Award.
Criteria for this recognition include conference participation in
the way of nominations, sponsorships, attendance and how the
facility creates an environment that encourages nurses to become
clinically excellent.
February 2008
LMHS Among Top 100 Integrated Healthcare Networks
LMHS ranks among the "Top 100 Integrated healthcare Networks" (IHNs)
in the country. Verispan's report - regarded as the nation's premier
rating system - evaluates IHNs on performance and degree of
integration. Hospitals making the "Top 100" list possess critical
success factors and have the ability to operate as a unified
organization in eight categories. The categories are integration,
integrated technology, contractual capabilities, outpatient
utilization, financial stability, services and access, hospital
utilization and physicians. You can find a complete list of the "Top
100" IHNs at www.verispan.com.
September 2007
LMHS receives, for the third consecutive year, AARP Best
Employer for Workers over 50 award. LMHS has been selected as
one of the top 10 employers in the nation … not just health systems
but among all employers …
May 2007
LMHS receives VHA Leadership Award for Clinical
Excellence for its implementation of rapid response teams, or
MET Team, which is a highly trained team of clinicians who bring
critical care expertise to the bedside. (www.vha.com)
September 2006
National Research Corporation's Consumer Choice Award Award:
2006/2007 NRC Healthcare Market Guide
Lee Memorial Health System
For the ninth consecutive year, community members named Lee
Memorial Health System a Consumer Choice Award winner. In the
National Research Corporation's annual Healthcare Market Guide®
study, consumers ranked LMHS the highest in our area for providing
quality healthcare services.
www.nationalresearch.com/ccaward.aspx#F
August 2006
LMHS has been named 2nd in the nation of AARP's
50 Best Employers for Workers Over 50. The award, now in its
sixth year, was established by AARP to honor employers showing a
commitment to an aging workforce. To be recognized a second time by
AARP is an amazing accomplishment. The AARP Magazine will
feature the Best Employer winners in its November-December issue.
March 2006
LMHS has been notified
it is the recipient of the 2006 VHA Leadership Award for
Operational Excellence which will be
announced at the 2006 VHA Leadership Conference on May 22. This
award honors organizations that have differentiated themselves
around national performance standards by achieving exceptionally
high levels of performance which was demonstrated through our
Employer of Choice designation in 2005. (www.vha.com)
February 2006
LMHS Among Top 100 Integrated Healthcare Networks
As reported in
Modern Healthcare, February 6, 2006, page 28, Lee
Memorial Health System is ranked #29 of the 100 best- performing
integrated healthcare networks in the country. There are only 2
other healthcare delivery systems in Florida named in the 100 best.
The commitment to continued improvement of the quality of service,
continuity of care, and connectivity is how LMHS made the list.
Accolades to the physicians, employees and volunteers who are
committed to ensuring our patients have the highest chance of a
great outcome.
Click here for more info.
November 2005
VHA (Voluntary Hospital Association) awards LMHS special recognition for Safety
Improvement from VHA-Southeast. Based upon a Falls
Prevention Program developed by Lee Memorial Home Health, this
highly successful program has previously been recognized by Florida
Medical Quality Assurance and has been identified as a best
practice to be duplicated by other home health agencies around the
nation. This innovative program has saved lives and reduced
injuries for patients served.
October 2005
LMHS Selected as 2005 winner of Solucient 100 Top
Hospitals "Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success" award.
Click here for further info.
September 2005
Lee Memorial Health System Receives
Leadership Award From VHA, Inc.
VHA, Inc., a national health care provider alliance based in Irving,
Texas, has recognized Lee Memorial Health System with its 2005
Leadership Award for operational excellence. Lee Memorial Health
System is one of only 32 VHA member hospitals nationwide to receive
this prestigious honor. The 2005
Leadership Award for operational excellence is given to member
organizations who have distinguished themselves by going the extra
mile to pursue excellence. There are several nationally-recognized
programs that have set the standards for quality including Employer
of Choice®. Lee Memorial Health System is an Employer of Choice
award winner.
"Outstanding Florida Council of Aging Member"
Award LMHS Gerontology Business Leader for
Older Adult Services, Sue Maxwell, has been awarded the Dr. Carter
Osterbind Outstanding Florida Council of Aging Member Award. She has
also been chosen as an at-large representative for the upcoming 2005
White House Conference on Aging in Washington, DC to be held in
December 2005.
August 2005
An "AARP Best Employer for Workers over 50"
Winner LMHS is
10th in the nation. This award is given to employers who have
exemplary practices and recognize the great value of older employees
as a key resource in their organizations. Our over 50 workers
provide knowledge and skills to the workplace that sometimes only
years of experience can bring.
June 2005
2005 AMERICAN BUSINESS AWARDS - STEVIE AWARD
Jon C. Cecil, Chief Human Resources Officer, won a Stevie Award
for Best Human Resources Executive at The 2005 American Business
Awards. Hailed as "the business world's own Oscars" by the New
York Post (April 27, 2005), the American Business Awards are the
first national, all-encompassing business awards program honoring
great performances in the workplace. Click
here for further info.
May 2005
Florida Nurses Association 2005 Nurse Exemplar
Awards
LMHS swept the top three spots in this year’s District 7 Clinical
Recognition Program. The Top Nurse Exemplar was Mary Taylor, Cape
Coral Hospital; runners-up were Kathy Ormandy, HealthPark and Marva
Pharis, LMH. The focus of the FNA Clinical Excellence Recognition
Program is to publicly value excellence in nursing practice. It also
recognizes the nominated nurses as experts in a given clinical
situation or setting.
2005 DISTINGUISHED HOSPITAL AWARD FOR PATIENT
SAFETY
This award is based on our performance in thirteen
patient safety indicators developed by the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality. This was achieved by the dedication and
teamwork of staff, physicians and volunteers; each with a commitment
to excellence and to patient safety.
NATIONAL 2005 VHA LEADERSHIP AWARD FOR
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
This award honors organizations that have
differentiated themselves around national performance standards by
achieving exceptionally high levels of performance. As an employer
of choice for two consecutive years, LMHS achieves the VHA
Leadership Award for Operational Excellence. This award means that
LMHS achieves exceptionally high levels of performance nationally.
For more information click on Curt Nonomaque, CEO of VHA, Inc.,
states, “Congratulations on this achievement! This high level of
performance evidences your organization’s efforts and commitment to
excellence.”
2005 ASTER AWARD
“Connected” Newsletter Wins National Award. LMHS’
very own employee newsletter is in the national spotlight.
“Connected” won an Aster Award in the category of internal
publication/newsletter for a healthcare system. The Aster Awards
program provides national-level recognition for healthcare
organizations and advertising agencies who strive for excellence in
medical marketing. The May issue of Marketing Healthcare Today will
publish a complete list of winners.
April 2005
FRANKLIN AWARD OF DISTINCTION - #1 In the Nation
Care Management Program Led by Chris Nesheim-Plonski
and Dr. Mark Greenberg, this stellar team was recognized for their
“commitment to a collaborative philosophy and an interdisciplinary
process for case management.” According to L. Greg Cunningham, CEO
of The American Case Management Association, “Lee Memorial Health
System demonstrates what is possible in patient care when leadership
and medical staff make a solid commitment to case management
services.” This award is named for Benjamin Franklin, the co-founder
of the first organized hospital in the U.S. It speaks to leadership
and forward thinking, collaboration with medical staff, system
leadership, and to our overall team approach to effective case
management. LMHS has received calls and emails from all over the
national with congratulations and with questions so that other
health care delivery systems will be able to duplicate the LMHS
program.
2005 BEST PRACTICES AWARD
Award Recognizes Outstanding Achievement in Women’s
HeartAdvantage Initiative. This award was presented to Lee Memorial
Health System for its effective use of communications channels to
further the cause of health care around our nation’s leading cause
of death – heart disease. The Women’s HeartAdvantage Initiative, VHA,
is taking the lead in making a difference for women and heart
disease by asking women to “Take care. Take Charge. Take Heart” of
the risks and threat of heart disease. This campaign is a call to
action for women of SW Florida. Women’s HeartAdvantage is the first
hospital-based program to address women and heart disease by
teaching women how to identify heart attack symptoms; encouraging
women to seek immediate medical attention; facilitating hospital
development of cardiac programs specifically designed for women; and
improving clinical outcomes. Women are particularly at risk, more
women than men have died of cardiovascular diseases every year since
1984.LMHS is honored to be recognized nationally for outstanding
achievement in the Women’s HeartAdvantage program.
March 2005
GOLD SEAL OF APPROVALTM
DISEASE-SPECIFIC CERTIFICATION
Lee Memorial Health System has earned the Gold Seal
of ApprovalTM or health care
quality for two of its programs. The Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations awarded LMHS
Disease-Specific Care Certification for the Lee Diabetes Care and
Lee Congestive Heart Failure Care Programs. The certification is
effective for two years until January, 2007.The certification means
that the Diabetes and CHF programs are in compliance with
consensus-based national standards. The programs maintain an
effective use of established clinical practice guidelines that
manage and optimize care and the performance measurement and
improvement activities meet national standards.
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