HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading
healthcare providers, today presented its annual HCA Healthcare
Awards of Distinction to recipients at a ceremony in Nashville. The
HCA Healthcare Awards of Distinction celebrate the organization’s
positive impact on patients, colleagues and communities by
recognizing extraordinary individuals who exemplify HCA
Healthcare’s culture and values.
The Frist Humanitarian Award recognizes the highest achievements
in serving others; the HCA Healthcare Innovators Award recognizes
creative new ideas for enhancing quality of care and efficiency;
and the HCA Healthcare Excellence in Nursing Award recognizes the
highest levels of performance in the field of nursing.
“The past year has brought unique challenges, but our colleagues
continue to go above and beyond to give people a healthier
tomorrow,” said Sam Hazen, chief executive officer of HCA
Healthcare. “The HCA Healthcare Awards of Distinction recipients
being honored today represent what HCA Healthcare stands for:
compassionate, quality patient care; innovative, forward-thinking
ideas; and above all else—the care and improvement of human
life.”
Frist Humanitarian Award Recipients
The Frist Humanitarian Award, named in honor of HCA Healthcare
co-founder Dr. Thomas F. Frist, Sr. (1910 – 1998), was created in
1971 and is the longest standing award in HCA Healthcare’s history.
The award honors individuals within HCA Healthcare who demonstrate
a level of commitment and caring that goes beyond everyday acts of
kindness, and who inspire colleagues with their compassion and
dedication. In 2020, HCA Healthcare colleagues collectively
volunteered more than 83,000 hours in their communities. The
recipients of this award are examples of that volunteer spirit and
the humanitarian principles established by HCA Healthcare’s
founders.
The Frist Humanitarian Award includes a $5,000 donation to the
charity of the recipient’s choice and a $5,000 gift for the
employee and volunteer recipients. The physician recipient receives
a $10,000 donation to the charity of the physician’s choice.
Recipients of the 48th annual Frist Humanitarian Award are:
Robin Yoder, MSW, LMSW, OSW-C, an oncology social worker at
Johnston-Willis Hospital in Richmond, Virginia; Tom Kettler, MD, a
family practitioner, and Anne Kettler, MD, a dermatologist, at
College Park Family Care Center located in Stanley, Kansas, which
is affiliated with Overland Park Regional Medical Center in
Overland Park, Kansas; and Lewis Franzen, a volunteer greeter and
wayfinder at Centennial Hospital in Centennial, Colorado.
“The recipients of this year’s Frist Humanitarian Award are
compassionate and selfless individuals whose generosity and
community service epitomize the vision of our organization’s
founders,” said Hazen. “From inside the hospital to in their
communities and around the world, these recipients volunteer their
time in a way that goes beyond everyday kindness.”
Robin Yoder is an oncology social worker with the Sarah Cannon
Cancer Institute at Johnston-Willis Hospital who has made caring
for the welfare of others her life’s work for more than three
decades. While helping others is a part of her job as a social
worker, it’s evident to everyone she meets that caring for others
is not work, but rather who she is at her core. She is an advocate,
champion, mentor, friend, triathlete, two-time cancer survivor and
an amputee who has impacted countless lives in Central Virginia and
around the world. In 2019, she was part of the U.S. delegation to
Turkmenistan to assist the country in developing adaptive sports
programs for the amputee community. While abroad, she was
recognized as a “Woman of Inspiration” by the Turkmenistan
news.
Tom and Anne Kettler are MDs at College Park Family Care Center
and have provided philanthropic support for more than three
decades, not only for the hospital’s patients and colleagues, but
for the entire Kansas City region. Their efforts to provide
equitable, high-quality care to thousands of the community’s
uninsured, underprivileged and underserved by working in and
running the Hope Family Center is a true example of HCA
Healthcare’s commitment to improving more lives in more ways. The
Kettlers frequently serve at a hospital and orphanage they founded
in Tenwek, Kenya. They are also involved with the Kitoben Children
Vision Center in Africa.
Lewis Franzen has been with HCA Healthcare for 16 years, first
as an employee and now as a volunteer at Centennial Hospital in
Centennial, Colorado for the past seven years. With a remarkable
track record of more than 7,000 hours of volunteer service to the
hospital, he has positively impacted thousands of patients and
families during his time as a volunteer. He was born with Spina
Bifida and has been in a wheelchair for most of his life. Despite
his physical constraints, Franzen has remained strong in his
commitment to showing up for patients and colleagues. Additionally,
Franzen volunteers at his church and the Food Bank of the
Rockies.
HCA Healthcare Innovators Award Recipient
HCA Healthcare was created through the vision of founders Dr.
Thomas F. Frist, Sr., Mr. Jack Massey and Dr. Thomas “Tommy” Frist,
Jr., and today HCA Healthcare is a learning health system that uses
its more than 32 million annual patient encounters to advance
science, improve patient care and save lives. Established in 2010,
the HCA Healthcare Innovators Award honors HCA Healthcare’s legacy
of innovation by recognizing the entrepreneurial spirit and forward
thinking of HCA Healthcare’s colleagues today. Through their
efforts and innovation, HCA Healthcare strives to deliver the most
effective care with the best possible results. The HCA Innovators
Award recipient receives a $5,000 gift and a $5,000 donation to the
charity of the recipient’s choice.
This year’s HCA Healthcare Innovators Award recipient is Henok
Getahun, manager, Sterile Processing, at Good Samaritan Hospital in
San Jose, California. Getahun has greatly improved the efficiency
of processes throughout Good Samaritan Hospital, consistently
striving for excellence in the delivery of high-quality,
cost-effective healthcare for patients. He is recognized for
creating several innovative initiatives, including a new process
that sends all bed rentals through Central Equipment Distribution
(CED), which resulted in a significant expense reduction for the
hospital. He is also being recognized for additional innovations,
including the Cart Exchange Program, which combines Crash Carts,
Chest Tube Carts, Urology Carts, and Pacemaker Carts; a designated
room consisting of fully inventoried items that helps staff easily
identify each item and its expiration date; and a new process to
clean critical patient care equipment, including IV pumps, and to
efficiently transport them to the nursing units.
“In the spirit of our founders, innovation happens every day
across our enterprise as we seek to improve clinical quality,
advance the care experience, and become more impactful in our
roles,” said Bill Rutherford, executive vice president and chief
financial officer of HCA Healthcare. “Getahun truly embodies this
spirit of innovation, and his work has greatly improved both
efficiency and patient care.”
HCA Healthcare Excellence in Nursing Award Recipients
HCA Healthcare’s nurses are the cornerstone of patient care, and
the organization is committed to investing in the resources they
need to grow professionally and individually. HCA Healthcare is
creating an environment where its more than 93,000 nurses have the
ability to grow and practice at the top of their license, making
HCA Healthcare a desired career destination for top nurses. Created
in 2014, The HCA Healthcare Excellence in Nursing Award recognizes
the intrinsic value of the nursing practice in advancing HCA
Healthcare’s mission to care for and improve human life. With
categories for professional mentoring and compassionate care, the
HCA Healthcare Excellence in Nursing Award recipients each receive
a $5,000 gift and $5,000 donation to the charity of the recipient’s
choice.
Recipients of this year’s HCA Healthcare Excellence in Nursing
Award are: Beth Onnen, RN, BSN, a nurse at Wesley Medical Center in
Wichita, Kansas and Rachel Marcellus MSN, RN, CCRN, clinical
education professional development educator at HealthONE in Denver,
Colorado.
“Nurses are on the front lines of these unprecedented times, and
I’m incredibly proud of how our HCA Healthcare nurses show up every
day for their patients and each other in the most inspirational
ways,” said Jane Englebright, senior vice president and chief nurse
executive of HCA Healthcare. “This year’s Excellence in Nursing
Award recipients are truly admirable in their delivery of
compassionate care, eagerness and commitment to mentoring new
nurses, and ability to drive quality improvement.”
Beth Onnen, a nurse at Wesley Medical Center, exemplifies HCA
Healthcare’s standards of integrity, compassion, respect and
excellence each day. In the past, Beth has used her personal time
to come to the hospital before and after her shifts to bring joy,
comfort and support to her patients and their families. In 2019,
Onnen received the DAISY Award in recognition of the indelible
impact she made on a family as they welcomed the birth of a child,
only to learn shortly thereafter of the mother’s cancer diagnosis,
which unfortunately led to her passing. Beth offered support to
this family in what was a very emotional time of mourning and loss
– while at the same time helped celebrate new life with the birth
of a child.
Rachel Marcellus, clinical education professional development
educator at HealthONE, created the “New Stages Concept” in her
previous role as clinical nurse coordinator. This highly successful
program helps to guide preceptors on how to follow stages when
teaching policies and procedures. In addition, the program supports
new hires so they may efficiently care for their critical patient
population. Marcellus also created and implemented the Diary
Project for ICU staff, patients, families and friends. The Diary
Project provides support in overcoming the emotional and mental
challenges of Post-ICU Syndrome through the practice of writing
small diary entries that help patients fill the gaps of their
hospital stay and recovery process.
About HCA Healthcare
Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading
providers of healthcare services comprising 187 hospitals and
approximately 2,000 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery
centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician
clinics, in 20 states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in
1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the
United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals,
deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine.
HCA Healthcare has conducted a number of clinical studies,
including one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is
healthier than early elective delivery of babies and another that
identified a clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream
infections in ICU patients by 44 percent. HCA Healthcare is a
learning health system that uses its more than 32 million annual
patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and
save lives. Please click here to connect with HCA Healthcare on
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