Awards—Culture of Recognition

Vituity’s culture is rooted in the noble cause of delivering quality patient care and extends into an appreciation of the individuals and clinical teams who do this work every day.

Annual Practice Awards

The following awards are granted each year to highly deserving recipients who embody the Vituity purpose of transforming healthcare to improve lives.

Annual Practice Awards

The following awards are granted each year to highly deserving recipients who embody the Vituity purpose of transforming healthcare to improve lives.

Practice of the Year Award

Vituity’s Practice of the Year Award recognizes a practice that excels at operational performance while building a team-oriented culture that is empowered to prioritize patient and client satisfaction.

 
 

 

2023

 

Ascension Via Christi

 

Four emergency departments from Ascension Via Christi were recognized as Practice of the Year for improving the quality of care for patients and the experience of clinicians at work through collaboration and reflective practices. The St. Francis, St. Joseph, St. Teresa, and Wellington emergency departments serve thousands of patients throughout Kansas from both urban and rural populations. Over the last several years, each site has done its part to implement initiatives and collaboratives to improve outcomes with an emphasis on patient feedback and productivity.

2022

 

Beverly Hospital – Emergency Medicine

 

Seasoned clinicians say there’s something truly special about Beverly. They have a talented clinician team, a strong partnership with nursing, and tremendous support from hospital administration. Despite steadily increasing patient volumes, medical director Joseph Chan, lead physician assistant Gary Felix, and nurse manager Charlene Chu have kept time-to-provider under 15 minutes and walkouts below 1%. This year, the team also significantly reduced time-to-discharge while implementing initiatives like Rapid Medical Evaluation and provider-only discharge.

 

2021

 

Adventist Health Hospital at Home Program - Emergency Medicine & Hospital Medicine

 

The Adventist Health Hospital at Home Program, led by Vituity emergency and hospital medicine teams, is a core example of how a health system and Vituity can partner on a project that is win-win-win for patients, the health system, and the clinicians. With more than 500 patients admitted at home instead of the hospital, they’ve proven that this model not only works and is safe and effective, but it’s also something that patients and clinicians prefer.

2020

 

All Vituity Providers

 

Despite facing a life-threatening pandemic, dealing with significant volume drops, and managing challenging disruptions to personal lives, our Vituity Partners and Advanced Providers came through this year for our patients and our clients in a huge way. There has been so much great work from so many different teams that it's impossible to highlight just one group. From seeing patients in tents and parking lots, innovating in the field and telemedicine, and community outreach, everyone deserves this award for how they stepped up and responded to a pandemic.

Practice of the Year Award

Vituity’s Practice of the Year Award recognizes a practice that excels at operational performance while building a team-oriented culture that is empowered to prioritize patient and client satisfaction.

 
 

 

2023

 

Ascension Via Christi

 

Four emergency departments from Ascension Via Christi were recognized as Practice of the Year for improving the quality of care for patients and the experience of clinicians at work through collaboration and reflective practices. The St. Francis, St. Joseph, St. Teresa, and Wellington emergency departments serve thousands of patients throughout Kansas from both urban and rural populations. Over the last several years, each site has done its part to implement initiatives and collaboratives to improve outcomes with an emphasis on patient feedback and productivity.

2022

 

Beverly Hospital – Emergency Medicine

 

Seasoned clinicians say there’s something truly special about Beverly. They have a talented clinician team, a strong partnership with nursing, and tremendous support from hospital administration. Despite steadily increasing patient volumes, medical director Joseph Chan, lead physician assistant Gary Felix, and nurse manager Charlene Chu have kept time-to-provider under 15 minutes and walkouts below 1%. This year, the team also significantly reduced time-to-discharge while implementing initiatives like Rapid Medical Evaluation and provider-only discharge.

 

2021

 

Adventist Health Hospital at Home Program - Emergency Medicine & Hospital Medicine

 

The Adventist Health Hospital at Home Program, led by Vituity emergency and hospital medicine teams, is a core example of how a health system and Vituity can partner on a project that is win-win-win for patients, the health system, and the clinicians. With more than 500 patients admitted at home instead of the hospital, they’ve proven that this model not only works and is safe and effective, but it’s also something that patients and clinicians prefer.

2020

 

All Vituity Providers

 

Despite facing a life-threatening pandemic, dealing with significant volume drops, and managing challenging disruptions to personal lives, our Vituity Partners and Advanced Providers came through this year for our patients and our clients in a huge way. There has been so much great work from so many different teams that it's impossible to highlight just one group. From seeing patients in tents and parking lots, innovating in the field and telemedicine, and community outreach, everyone deserves this award for how they stepped up and responded to a pandemic.

Distinguished Practice Award

Vituity’s Distinguished Practice Award recognizes local teams that have made substantial improvements to patient care with an emphasis on service excellence.

 
 



2023


Sparrow Health System - Hospital Medicine


By geographically cohorting their observation patients, they have streamlined processes to result in decreasing their length of stay by more than 12 hours, and by utilizing discharge lounges, they have cut their observed to expected down to less than one.



Corona Regional Medical Center - Neurology


Since starting in 2018, the neurology department has grown to include a 24/7 EEG program that provides quick diagnoses and reduces the rate of brain damage. They even created a program where an in-person nurse practitioner is supported by teleneurology services to provide innovative care that will now be replicated at a variety of sites.

 

 

Mercy Medical Redding - Anesthesiology


The team spearheaded a patient satisfaction initiative that led to skyrocketing scores and a regional nerve block initiative to reduce opioid use. This year, they increased their on-start times, improved turnaround time, and collaborated with hospitalists to process patients more efficiently.

 

 

 

2022


Community Hospital - Munster - Emergency Medicine


Strong culture building at this new Vituity practice site led to almost immediate improvement. After one month, walkouts dropped from 12.7% to 2.3%. Within eight months, time-to-provider dropped from 96 minutes to seven, and door-to-departure times improved by 31%.



Bon Secours St. Francis - Greenville - Hospital Medicine


When COVID-19 patients filled 150 of their 250 beds, this team rose to the challenge. Despite a crushing workload, they significantly reduced length of stay and mortality for coronavirus patients, eventually leading their system in both categories.

 

 

Navidad Medical Center - Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry


Despite staffing shortages, these two teams worked together to improve emergency behavioral health care and reduce psychiatric ED boarding by 3,400 hours per month. 

 

 

 

2021


Clovis Community Medical Center - Emergency Medicine


The Vituity team at Clovis Community Medical Center is perceived as a true partner with the hospital, thanks to their strong team culture which places the patient front and center in care delivery decisions



O’Connor Hospital - Anesthesiology

 

The anesthesiology practice at O’Connor Hospital has improved patient safety by implementing 20 safety improvement policies and procedures, helping improve all metrics and instituting major and ongoing improvements to the pre-op clinic process.

 

 

Methodist Hospitals - Northlake & Southlake Campus - Emergency Medicine

 

The Vituity team at Methodist Hospitals, Northlake & Southlake focus on performance improvements based on the unique needs of their communities, resulting in lower total time to provider and increased patient experience scores.

 

 

 

2020


All Vituity Providers


Despite facing a life-threatening pandemic, dealing with significant volume drops, and managing challenging disruptions to personal lives, our Vituity Partners and Advanced Providers came through this year for our patients and our clients in a huge way. There has been so much great work from so many different teams that it's impossible to highlight just one group. From seeing patients in tents and parking lots, innovating in the field and telemedicine, and community outreach, everyone deserves this award for how they stepped up and responded to a pandemic.

 

 

 

 

 

2019


Woodland Memorial Hospital – Vituity psychiatric team



Adventist Health Feather River Hospital – Vituity emergency and hospital medicine team

Distinguished Practice Award

Vituity’s Distinguished Practice Award recognizes local teams that have made substantial improvements to patient care with an emphasis on service excellence.

 
 



2023


Sparrow Health System - Hospital Medicine


By geographically cohorting their observation patients, they have streamlined processes to result in decreasing their length of stay by more than 12 hours, and by utilizing discharge lounges, they have cut their observed to expected down to less than one.



Corona Regional Medical Center - Neurology


Since starting in 2018, the neurology department has grown to include a 24/7 EEG program that provides quick diagnoses and reduces the rate of brain damage. They even created a program where an in-person nurse practitioner is supported by teleneurology services to provide innovative care that will now be replicated at a variety of sites.

 

 

Mercy Medical Redding - Anesthesiology


The team spearheaded a patient satisfaction initiative that led to skyrocketing scores and a regional nerve block initiative to reduce opioid use. This year, they increased their on-start times, improved turnaround time, and collaborated with hospitalists to process patients more efficiently.

 

 

 

2022


Community Hospital - Munster - Emergency Medicine


Strong culture building at this new Vituity practice site led to almost immediate improvement. After one month, walkouts dropped from 12.7% to 2.3%. Within eight months, time-to-provider dropped from 96 minutes to seven, and door-to-departure times improved by 31%.



Bon Secours St. Francis - Greenville - Hospital Medicine


When COVID-19 patients filled 150 of their 250 beds, this team rose to the challenge. Despite a crushing workload, they significantly reduced length of stay and mortality for coronavirus patients, eventually leading their system in both categories.

 

 

Navidad Medical Center - Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry


Despite staffing shortages, these two teams worked together to improve emergency behavioral health care and reduce psychiatric ED boarding by 3,400 hours per month. 

 

 

 

2021


Clovis Community Medical Center - Emergency Medicine


The Vituity team at Clovis Community Medical Center is perceived as a true partner with the hospital, thanks to their strong team culture which places the patient front and center in care delivery decisions



O’Connor Hospital - Anesthesiology

 

The anesthesiology practice at O’Connor Hospital has improved patient safety by implementing 20 safety improvement policies and procedures, helping improve all metrics and instituting major and ongoing improvements to the pre-op clinic process.

 

 

Methodist Hospitals - Northlake & Southlake Campus - Emergency Medicine

 

The Vituity team at Methodist Hospitals, Northlake & Southlake focus on performance improvements based on the unique needs of their communities, resulting in lower total time to provider and increased patient experience scores.

 

 

 

2020


All Vituity Providers


Despite facing a life-threatening pandemic, dealing with significant volume drops, and managing challenging disruptions to personal lives, our Vituity Partners and Advanced Providers came through this year for our patients and our clients in a huge way. There has been so much great work from so many different teams that it's impossible to highlight just one group. From seeing patients in tents and parking lots, innovating in the field and telemedicine, and community outreach, everyone deserves this award for how they stepped up and responded to a pandemic.

 

 

 

 

 

2019


Woodland Memorial Hospital – Vituity psychiatric team



Adventist Health Feather River Hospital – Vituity emergency and hospital medicine team

Partnering to improve patient lives

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