News Briefs

JOLLY GOOD FELLOWS: Three Emory University nursing leaders have been inducted as fellows into the American Academy of Nursing (AAN).

Susan Grant, chief nursing officer at Emory Healthcare; Mary Gullatte, associate chief nursing officer at Emory University Hospital Midtown; and Lynn Sibley, associate professor at Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, were recently inducted at the American Academy of Nursing’s annual conference and meeting in Washington, D.C.

Grant, MS, RN, NEA, has been chief nursing officer at Emory Healthcare since 2006. Her work in health care over the last several years has been focused on promoting and implementing patient- and family-centered care in health care systems.

Gullatte, Ph.D., RN, ANP-BC, AOCN, has more than 32 years of oncology nursing experience, with a clinical background in hematology/oncology and blood and marrow stem cell transplantation. She also holds an adjunct faculty position with the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.

Sibley, Ph.D., RN, CNM, FACNM, has been an associate professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing since 2003. She is the director of the Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia Partnership.

UHC BOARD: Sandra I. McVicker, RN, MSN, interim president and CEO of MCGHealth in Augusta, has been named to the member board of directors of the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC). McVicker will oversee the organization’s direction and strategic focus.

The UHC is an alliance of 107 academic medical centers and 246 of their affiliated hospitals, representing nearly 90 percent of the nation’s nonprofit academic medical centers.

McVicker, who joined MCGHealth in 1997, also is senior vice president of Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer.

NEW MEDICAL CAMPUS: Health care and community leaders from Rome, Ga., joined state higher-education leaders last month to announce plans to establish the Northwest Georgia Clinical Campus of the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine.

The model of health care in Rome provides a good base for physician education that should foster development of more primary care physicians, said Dr. Linda Boyd, associate dean for regional campus coordination for the MCG School of Medicine.

MCG officials plan to name a campus assistant dean in the coming weeks and to have the campus established by July 2013.

RECORD FUNDRAISING: Shepherd Center in Atlanta set a new fundraising record in October through ShepherdCares, an employee giving initiative to raise funds for hospital programs or needs.

Each year, the ShepherdCares Advisory Committee selects a program to support. The 2011 campaign was dedicated to raising money to purchase an accessible van for patient driver training in the Dora and Ed Voyles Assistive Technology Center.

The 2011 campaign raised more than $110,800. A record 777 employees (almost 60 percent participation) contributed.

The accessible van will be dedicated in memory of Laura and Karl Anschutz, the teenage children of John Anschutz, the manager of the Shepherd Center Assistive Technology Center. The teens passed away earlier this year.

ON A ROLL: For the 13th straight year, Emory University Hospital in Atlanta has been recognized as one of the nation’s top hospitals by the National Research Corporation’s (NRC) Consumer Choice Awards.

The award identifies hospitals chosen by health care consumers as having the highest quality and image in more than 300 markets throughout the nation.