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The American Heart Association recently acknowledged the work of the Nashville Fire Department, with the support of Mayor Karl Dean, by presenting them the first-ever “Heart Ready” award in Tennessee. Over the past year, survival rates from Sudden Cardiac Arrest have improved in Nashville by over 13% up from 6% in the previous year due to the efforts and changes made by Chief Halford to drive CPR education and placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) by the Fire Department and the Nashville Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Program. Nationally, Sudden Cardiac Arrest will strike 250,000 Americans this year leaving less than 5-percent.

Country music supergroup Rascal Flatts was honored last month by the Academy of Country Music and Home Depot with the Humanitarian Award for their unflagging support of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. The band – Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney – has pledged to raise $3 million for Children’s Hospital. The group received a crystal trophy designed by Tiffany & Co. and will be honored with a playground in a city of its choice donated by The Home Depot and national nonprofit partner KaBOOM!

Alive Hospice’s Karen York, executive vice president of organizational excellence and mission, recently received the National Council of Hospice and Palliative Professionals prestigious Heart of Hospice Award during the 23rd annual Management and Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. Regarded as the highest accolade in the field and presented to hospice professionals by hospice professionals, the Heart of Hospice Award recognizes individuals who have repeatedly demonstrated outstanding levels of achievement in hospice and end-of-life care.

MedSolutions, providing radiology management services for 20 million individuals nationwide, was recently recognized for the second consecutive year as “An Outstanding Customer Service Experience” under the esteemed J.D. Power and Associates Certified Call Center Program(SM). MedSolutions was the first and currently the only radiology management company to be recognized with this distinguished award, an outstanding achievement in light of the fact that there are 75,000 call centers in North America and to date only 40 have been certified with this award.

SHOTS, etc., Nashville’s leading provider of low-cost, safe vaccinations, received national certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).

Healthcare Marketing Report recently honored Nashville’s Lovell Communications Inc. (LCI) with six national Healthcare Advertising Awards for strategic marketing and communications campaigns. LCI’s work for Alive Hospice, Community Health Systems, LifeCare and Ardent Health Services garnered the national recognition.

The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare named Centerstone a winner of a 2008 Award of Excellence in Boston last month. Centerstone was selected as the Excellence in Innovation Award-winner for the Centerstone Research Institute, an innovative organization linking renowned behavioral health researchers with service providers to enhance the field’s ability to meet mental health treatment needs in communities nationwide.

Saint Thomas Hospital’s Caroline Young, RN, has been named the Tennessean’s Nurse of the Year for 2008 as part of National Nurses Week last month. Young, who began her career at Saint Thomas Hospital 24 years ago, serves as the assistant manager of the Joint Replacement Center.

Also last month, Middle Tennessee Medical Center announced Karen Alsbrook, RN, who serves in the oncology department, as the 2008 Clinical Excellence Award winner. Baptist Hospital recognized its 2008 Nurses of the Year in the specialties of surgical, medical, critical care, obstetrics, interventional and peri-operative. The honorees are: Ginny Gaddy, RN, Obstetrical Nurse of the Year; A.J. DeJarnette, RN, Critical Care Nurse of the Year; Diane Working, RN, Peri-operative Nurse of the Year; Lynn Alcaraz, LPN, Surgical Nurse of the Year; Emily Gray, LPN, Medical Nurse of the Year; and Loretta Crosby, RN, Interventional Nurse of the Year.

Last month during National Volunteer Week, Project C.U.R.E., a local nonprofit that delivers donated medical supplies to developing countries, honored Larry Mains. Mains has been a volunteer with the organization since 2000 and works as a sort center manager two or more days a week.



June 2008

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