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Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and Georgia Perimeter College are teaming up to prepare nurses from underrepresented groups to attain bachelor’s degrees in nursing with the additional goal of preparing students for careers in health research.
Emory and GPC are the first and only institutions in Georgia to be selected for the Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program by the National Institutes of Health. This new partnership will provide $900,000 during a five-year period to develop programming to increase the pool of underrepresented students who are prepared for careers in research.
Students admitted to GPC under this partnership will be part of an eight-week summer immersion program focused on rigorous nursing education coupled with academic research exposure. After completing their associate degrees at GPC, students will transition into the baccalaureate nursing program at Emory.
With this program, both institutions want to establish a partnership model for two-year and four-year nursing schools in Georgia to build pipelines for baccalaureate education for nursing students.
Stroke care award: North Fulton Hospital was recently recognized by the American Heart Association with the Gold Plus Award for Stroke Care. This marks the third consecutive year that the hospital has received the award.
North Fulton Hospital’s Stroke Program was also placed on the AHA’s new Target Stroke Honor Roll.
The Gold Plus Award for Stroke recognizes facilities that meet stroke quality measures for 24 consecutive months. The quality measures include treating suspected stroke victims within 4.5 hours of the onset of symptoms, screening for dysphagia and providing stroke education.
National accreditation: The Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons has granted three-year accreditation with commendation to the Northside Hospital Cancer Institute, as a result of surveys performed during 2013.
“We are so pleased to receive this national accreditation from the Commission on Cancer,” said Patti Owen, director of oncology services at Northside Hospital. “This award exemplifies our ongoing commitment to providing high-quality, multidisciplinary cancer care as a comprehensive, community hospital and cancer institute.”
To earn voluntary accreditation, a cancer program must meet or exceed 34 Commission on Cancer quality care standards, be evaluated every three years through a survey process, and maintain levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered care. Three-year accreditation with commendation is only awarded to a facility that exceeds standard requirements at the time of its triennial survey.
Top rankings: The University HealthSystem Consortium has ranked Emory University Hospital (which includes Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital) second and Emory University Hospital Midtown third in the 2013 national UHC Quality Leadership Awards.
This is the second consecutive year that Emory Healthcare has had two of its large teaching hospitals rank in the top 10 nationally. Emory Healthcare is again UHC’s only health care organization where two hospitals from the same system have ranked in the top 10.
The Quality Leadership Award honors top performers in UHC’s Quality and Accountability Study, which ranks performance in mortality, effectiveness, safety, equity, patient centeredness, and efficiency.
“These national rankings are indicative of our leading improvements in mortality reduction, infection rate reduction, substantial elimination of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, and many other quality, safety and service indicators that go into this overall national ranking algorithm,” said John T. Fox, president and CEO.
Helping battered women: To commemorate National Nurse Practitioner Week (Nov. 10-16), the Atlanta chapter of the United Advanced Practice Registered Nurses donated about $500 in paper products and bleach to Project Renewal, a Conyers-based domestic violence intervention program that serves battered women in Rockdale, Newton and Walton counties.
The donation is but one act of community service that the organization’s nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives and nurse anesthetists provide.
The purpose of the United Advanced Practice Registered Nurses of Georgia is to address legislative, political and practice issues of advance practice registered nurses.
