JCAHO announces Codman Award winners
April 1, 1999 2 minutes read
JCAHO announces Codman Award winners
The latest winners of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health care Organizations’ Codman Awards honor institutions and individuals from all points along the care continuum. The winners include one care source that gets scant notice, and even fewer awards:
• Atascadero State Hospital, a maximum security, forensic facility on the California coast between San Francisco and Los Angeles, reduced the frequency of patient violence and weapon use during mealtimes.
• The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia coordinates the components of health and disease management ranging from inpatient care to wellness activities.
• The Laboratory at Warm Springs+Baptist Rehabilitation Hospital in San Antonio increased patient satisfaction by assessing internal satisfaction levels and comparing scores to an external database.
• Susquehanna Lutheran Village achieved its goal of becoming a restraint-free long-term care facility and now serves as Pennsylvania’s training site for restraint-free care.
• Paul B. Batalden, MD, professor and director of Health Care Improvement Leadership Development in the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, NH, is recognized for his seminal work in health care quality improvement.
• Eugene C. Nelson, DSc, MPH, professor of community and family medicine in the Health Care Improvement Leadership Development in the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, NH, is honored for development of cutting-edge technologies for displaying and using data in organizational and clinical improvement. (See Nelson’s advice in "Quality Talk," p. 49.)
The Ernest A. Codman Award was created to showcase the effective use of performance measurement. For more information, contact the Joint Commission on Health care Accreditation, One Renaissance Boulevard, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181. Telephone: (630) 792-5000. World Wide Web: http://www.jcaho.org.
(Editor’s note: Watch for stories from the Codman winners in future issues of QI/TQM.)
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