The Patient Safety Authority (PSA) is proud to recognize the winners of the I AM Patient Safety 2024 Achievement Awards. We are grateful for their inspiring and life-changing accomplishments in patient safety in the last year.
Judges selected nine winners and 18 runners-up from individuals and teams from 130 nominations, submitted by 74 healthcare facilities throughout Pennsylvania and from around the United States, for their individual and/or team commitment to improving patient safety. Nominees were evaluated for:
- Evident commitment to patient safety
- Focus on training and education
- Indicative of strong patient safety culture in the facility
- Initiative taken by individual/group
In addition to the nine juried awards, PSA Executive Director Regina Hoffman, MBA, RN, selected a Choice Award winner for special recognition.
The PSA thanks everyone who submitted a nomination. If you know an individual or group who should be recognized for their patient safety efforts, please nominate them for the 2024 I AM Patient Safety contest during the next nomination period.
Winners
Executive Director’s Choice Award
Ambulatory Care/Surgery Award
Individual Impact
Long Term Care Facility Award
Transparency and Safety in Healthcare Award
Runners-Up
Ambulatory Care/Surgery Facility
- Einstein Endoscopy Center Blue Bell
Jefferson Health - Randi Shupp, PA-C
Lehigh Valley Health Networkm-Tilghman
IMPROVING DIAGNOSIS
- The Center for Diagnostic Leadership Team: Dan Hyman, MD, Kathy Shaw, MD, Eileen Ware, MSN, RN, Meghan Galligan, MD, Cara Jefferies, MSN, RN, Irit Rasooly, MD, Jill Krause, MD, Morgan Cogdon, MD, and Rich Scarfone, MD,
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia - Emergency Department, Emergency Department Registration, and Cardiology Department EKG Techs
Saint Vincent
INDIVIDUAL IMPACT- GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND
Chelsea Johns, RDN, CDCES
Hamilton Health Center
Ruchi O’Reilly, MSN, RN
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY
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Georgina Philbin, RN
Willow Brooke Court Skilled Care Center at Brittany Pointe Estates -
Theresa Bush, RN, Stephanie Nemeth, RN, Nicole Sokolowska, Emily Kielar, Princy Vaidyan, RN, Heidi Burk, and Dr. Neal Mermelstein
Juniper Village at Bucks County Rehabilitation and Skilled Care
PHYSICIAN OFFICES
SAFETY STORY (NEAR MISS OR CLOSE CALL)
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Lyndsay Horwedel, BSN, RN, Olivia Johnson, PharmD, Kelly Romano, and Carlos Ayala
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery
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Emergency Response Team,
WVU Medicine–Uniontown Hospital
SEPSIS
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Sepsis Improvement Team
Regional Hospital of Scranton, Commonwealth Health
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Emergency Department
Grove City Hospital
TRANSPARENCY AND SAFETY IN HEALTHCARE
- Magdalena Moyer
Penn State Health St. Joseph - Cancer Centerk
- UPMC West Shore Surgical Services and Executive Leaders
UPMC West Shore
Past Winners
