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—which include the Frist
Humanitarian Awards, the Innovators Award and the Excellence in
Nursing Awards—are the highest honors HCA Healthcare bestows on
employees, physicians and volunteers.
The Frist Humanitarian Award recognizes the highest achievements
in serving others; the Innovators Award recognizes creative new
ideas for enhancing quality of care and efficiency; and the
Excellence in Nursing Award recognizes the highest levels of
performance in the field of nursing.
“The HCA Healthcare Awards of Distinction celebrate the
colleagues, physicians and volunteers who inspire us all,” said Sam
Hazen, chief executive officer of HCA Healthcare. “The recipients
being honored today exemplify the mission and values of HCA
Healthcare as they continue to serve with selflessness both within
and outside of our facilities.”
Frist Humanitarian Award Recipients
The Frist Humanitarian Award recognizes members of the HCA
Healthcare family whose work and lives embody the humanitarian
principles upon which our organization was founded. Created in 1971
and named in honor of Dr. Thomas F. Frist, Sr. (1910 – 1998), this
award honors individuals within our organization who raise the bar
by demonstrating a level of commitment and caring that goes beyond
everyday acts of kindness, and who inspire us with their
compassion, dedication and spirit.
Frist Humanitarian Award employee and volunteer recipients
receive a $10,000 cash gift and a $10,000 gift to a charity of
their choice, while the physician recipient receives a $20,000 gift
to the charity of their choice.
Recipients of the 49th annual Frist Humanitarian Award are:
Diana Elizabeth Moll, CCLS, a child life specialist at Eastern
Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho; Emeka J.
Nchekwube, MD, a neurosurgeon at Regional Medical Center of San
Jose in San Jose, California; and Jo Watson, a volunteer at TriStar
NorthCrest Medical Center in Springfield, Tennessee.
“HCA Healthcare was founded on a steadfast dedication to the
care and improvement of human life,” said Hazen. “It is an honor to
present this year’s esteemed recipients with the Frist Humanitarian
Award as they live out the vision of our company’s founders.”
Diana Elizabeth Moll is a child life specialist for the robust
pediatric program at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Known
as “the pulse of pediatrics” throughout the Idaho Falls community,
Moll is a true patient advocate and an integral part of the
hospital’s employee advisory group, actively leading projects to
boost colleague morale. Her support of a local food bank resulted
in a $5,000 prize for the division and a $10,000 national prize. In
addition, Moll is active with non-profit organizations focused on
resources for children, volunteering eight years in a row with Camp
Magical Moments, a summer camp for children with cancer, and six
years with Heartstone Children’s Grief Group.
Emeka J. Nchekwube, MD, a neurosurgeon at Regional Medical
Center of San Jose, has dedicated his life to providing quality,
impactful care to the most underserved communities in the Bay Area
for more than 40 years. Described as not only a healer, but a
comforter and compassionate neighbor, Dr. Nchekwube is widely known
for treating patients with Parkinson’s disease and cancer. In
addition to his medical expertise, he has successfully helped to
develop agricultural pest control systems to help address food
insecurities in developing countries.
Jo Watson has set the record for volunteer hours with 41,000
over 27 years at TriStar NorthCrest Medical Center in Springfield,
Tennessee. Now 93, she works two shifts per week at the information
desk. She has also worked in the hospital’s surgery waiting room as
a family liaison. Widely known as the “Pink Lady” due to the
immense pride she has for wearing her pink volunteer coat, Watson
has positively impacted countless patients, families and
colleagues. Watson brings a calming presence to the hospital, often
helping to put patients’ families at ease as she escorts them to
their destinations.
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 35 million patient encounters to advance science,
improve patient care and save lives. Created in 2010, the
Innovators Award honors the organization’s legacy of innovation by
recognizing creative thinkers who develop new ways to enhance
patient experience and care. The Innovators Award recipient
receives a $10,000 cash gift and a $10,000 donation to the charity
of the recipient’s choice.
This year’s Innovators Award recipient is Nathan Watkins,
manager, software engineering at corporate information technology
group (ITG) in Nashville, Tennessee. Since joining HCA Healthcare
as an intern more than six years ago, Watkins has continually shown
a passion for innovation and collaboration in support of patient
care. He is recognized for designing, building and now supporting
the Next-gen Analytics for Treatment and Efficiency (NATE) platform
used daily by thousands of HCA Healthcare colleagues across the
nation. Inspired by the needs of care teams during the pandemic,
variations of NATE, such as one which provides a real-time analysis
of medical documentation to better predict mortality, have become
highly integrated in several service line workflows, driving
efficiency and better patient outcomes.
“Innovation is an integral part of achieving our mission at HCA
Healthcare,” said Bill Rutherford, executive vice president and
chief financial officer of HCA Healthcare. “Nathan has shown
tremendous ingenuity through the development of critical support
tools that are now used to improve patient care across the
enterprise.”
HCA Healthcare Excellence in Nursing Award Recipients
HCA Healthcare’s knowledgeable and compassionate nurses are on
the front line of patient care, every day. The Excellence in
Nursing Award was created in 2014 to recognize the intrinsic value
of the nursing practice in accomplishing HCA Healthcare’s goal of
providing the highest quality of care to the patients and
communities we serve. With categories for professional mentoring
and compassionate care, the Excellence in Nursing Award recipients
each receive a $10,000 cash gift and a $10,000 donation to the
charity of the recipient’s choice.
Recipients of this year’s Excellence in Nursing Award are: Sarah
Nicole Romero, RN, BSN, CCRN, a professional support nurse at
Medical City Plano in Plano, Texas; and Nadia Gueorguieva, RN, an
orthopedic nurse at London Bridge Hospital in London, England, a
part of HCA Healthcare UK.
“I am incredibly proud of the ways our nurses continually go
above and beyond to care for their patients and for each other,”
said Sammie Mosier, DHA, MA, BSN, NE-BC, senior vice president and
chief nurse executive of HCA Healthcare. “The recipients of this
year’s Excellence in Nursing award are remarkable individuals who
have excelled in providing compassionate care and leadership in
their hospitals.”
Sarah Nicole Romero, RN, BSN, CCRN, received the Excellence in
Nursing Award in the Professional Mentoring category. During the
height of the pandemic, Romero led a number of impactful
initiatives to promote communication and connection among her
nursing colleagues, including the Nurse Connections Platform and
the Nurse Connection Mentor Program. Both initiatives proved to be
key in retention of new hires and recent graduates. Since launching
the mentorship program, Romero has accepted the role of
professional development support nurse for Medical City Plano.
Nadia Gueorguieva, RN, received the Excellence in Nursing Award
in the Compassionate Care category. With more than 25 years of
experience, she serves as a mentor to the junior nursing teams,
sharing her immense knowledge and experience in providing for the
needs of her patients and their families while exhibiting a spirit
of positivity and strength. In addition to receiving numerous DAISY
Awards, Gueorguieva was invited as an honored guest to a special
ceremony at Windsor Castle in recognition of her compassionate
care.
About HCA Healthcare Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is
one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services
comprising 182 hospitals and approximately 2,300 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%. HCA
Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its more than 35
million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve
patient care and save lives. Please click here to connect with HCA
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