Congratulations to this year's Award Winners!
2024 Gold Touchstone Awards
| Facility | Project Title |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Investigating Nursing Impact on Surgical Outcomes by Adding a Thermo-Reflective Blanket to Warming Protocol: A Randomized Control Trial |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Driving Improvement in PSI 11 Postoperative Respiratory Failure through Culture Change and Collaboration between Cardiac Surgery, Anesthesia, and the Adult Surgical Heart Unit Team |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Divide and Conquer: A Strategic Split of the Triage Process to Improve Care Delivery Flow and Reduce the Number of Patients that Leave Without Being Seen in the Emergency Department. |
| Atrium Health Greater Charlotte Market Carolinas Rehab Network | No Delay Authorizations |
| Atrium Health Navicent | Teammate Experience Executive Leader Rounding |
| Atrium Health Primary Care Cabarrus Family Medicine | Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Hispanic Population |
| Atrium Health Primary Care Cabarrus Family Medicine | It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere: Streamlining Communication for More Efficient Clinic Days, a Happier Team, and Fewer Late Nights at the Office |
| Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute | Cardiac Surgery Care Transformation Across the Continuum |
| Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center | Journey of Excellence & Driving Improvement |
| Behavioral Health Service Line | Optimizing Access, Costs, and Throughput of Psychiatric Patients in Acute Care Emergency Departments |
2024 Silver Touchstone Awards
| Facility | Project Title |
| Advocate Children's Hospital | Advocate Children’s Hospital CAUTI-free One Year and Counting |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Sepsis Success: AIMMC Sepsis Program and Outcome Improvements |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Nurse-Driven Sepsis BPA Usability Improvement |
| Advocate Midwest Region -Illinois and Wisconsin Hospitals | Surgical Acute Kidney Injury Prevention: Enterprise Kidney Health Initiative, Surgical Episodes of Care |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Re-Creating a Medical Observation Unit to Enhance Patient Flow |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Breaking the Barriers: Reducing VTE Events through Quality Improvement Efforts |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | The Completion of Admission Orders Prior to Transport Complete for Admitting Emergency Room (ER) Patients |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center & Atrium Health Floyd Behavioral Health Center | Reducing the Patient Turnaround Time |
| Atrium Health Greater Charlotte Market | Chest Compression Compliance Improvement Project |
| Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital | Medic to the Rescue: Developing a Paramedic Driven Workflow in the Pediatric Emergency Department to Reduce Incomplete Visits and Improve Patient Experience |
| Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital | PICCing the Right Process: A QI Project to Reduce PICC-line Associated Thrombosis, Improve Care, Enhance Patient Experience, and Save Resources |
| Atrium Health Lincoln | Enhancing Patient Safety: A Virtual Approach to Reducing Urinary Catheter Utilization in Critical Care |
| Atrium Health Navicent Medical Center | Dolls Aren't Just for Babies Anymore |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist | Vaccines Don't Have To Be Painful: Streamlining NCIR Integration |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center | Rover for Wound Images: A Quality Improvement Project on an Acute Care of the Elderly Unit |
| Aurora BayCare Medical Center | Reducing Hospital Acquired Central Line Bloodstream Infections |
| Aurora Medical Center Kenosha/Mount Pleasant | Diagnostic Cardiology Scheduling Improvement |
| Aurora Sinai Medical Center | What the Butt: Pressure Injury Reduction in Intensive Care |
| Aurora St. Luke's South Shore | ASLSS Fall Reduction Initiative |
| Aurora West Allis Medical Center | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Electronic Patient Screening by Level 2 MR Trained Personnel |
2024 Bronze Touchstone Awards
| Facility | Project Title |
| Advocate Health Midwest Region | Condition Management & Documentation Best Practice Advisory |
| Advocate South Suburban Hospital | Improving Patient Experience through Excellence in Surgical Care and Enhanced Communication |
| Atrium Behavioral Health Charlotte | Enhancing Psychiatric Emergency Department Triage Process to Optimize Patient Care: A Nursing Led Initiative in Collaboration with Strategic & Operational Consulting |
| Atrium Behavioral Health Charlotte | Standardizing Behavioral Health Emergency Department Nursing Rounds Incorporating Diagnostic Sensitivity of the Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression (DASA) to Improve Workplace Violence |
| Atrium Health Anson | Anson Mobile Produce Market |
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Psychiatry & Counseling - Davidson | Empowering Mothers: Nurturing Wellbeing Through a Maternal Wellness Program |
| Atrium Health Capacity Command Center | Minding your P's and Q: Tracking Patients through CMC's Queue |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Emergency Medicine Pain and Addiction Quality Improvement |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Reducing Intraoperative Opioid use in Cardiac Surgery patients with Cardiac ERAS Multimodal Analgesia |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Reimagining ED Space: Improving Throughput by Converting a Waiting Area into a Treatment Care Space |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Implementation of a Penicillin-Allergy Protocol in Open Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: Preoperative Optimization Program |
| Atrium Health Central Area | Mindful Advocates: The Gravitational Power of Well-being through Peer-to-Peer Support |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Strategies for Improving Patient Safety: A Comprehensive Approach to Pressure Injury Reduction |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Emergency Department Electrocardiogram Process |
| Atrium Health Greater Charlotte Market | Implementation of Weapons Screening Technologies |
| Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute | Application of Failure Modes Effects Analysis to Total Body Irradiation to Improve Patient Safety |
| Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital | Developing a Nephrotoxic Medication Stewardship Information Model for Timely Risk Mitigation and Quality Improvement: A Sisyphus Tale |
| Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital | Optimizing Communication Around Fertility Risk and Fertility Preservation in Pediatric Patients Receiving Chemotherapeutic Agents or Radiation Therapy |
| Atrium Health Navicent | Tackling CAUTI at the ICU Level with Physician-Led Gatekeeping |
| Atrium Health Transition Clinic-Kenilworth & Atrium Health at Home-York | Seamless Synergy: Collaboration between Transition Clinic and Home Health |
| Atrium Health Union and Atrium Health Union West | Dedicated to Quality and Safety: A New Approach to Safety Event Reviews |
| Atrium Health Union West | Improve Patient Experience with a Multifaceted Approach |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist | The Making of a Mobility Motivator: Decreasing Falls by Increasing Movement for Patients with Cancer |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist High Point Medical Center | Stand-Down for Strokes |
| Aurora Medical Center Kenosha | Patient Mobility Challenge in Acute Care setting: Changing Nursing Care Delivery to Decrease Inpatient Geriatric Functional Decline, Length of Stay, and Impact Discharge disposition. |
| Aurora Sinai Medical Center | From Pilot to Practice- Enhancing Care Coordination Through Standardized Multidisciplinary Rounds to Drive Length of Stay Reduction |
| Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center | Improving Post-Transplant Vaccination Compliance via Implementation of a Clinical Pharmacist-Managed Service |
| Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center | ASLMC Cath Lab Cardiology Quality Improvement Project |
| Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center | Reducing Colon Surgical Site Infections |
| Midwest Integrated Care Management | Midwest Regional Transitional Care Management Strategy using IVR Technology |