Covenant HealthCare Receives Governor’s Award of Excellence
Covenant HealthCare recently received the 2017 Governor’s Award of Excellence for outstanding achievements in improving the quality of healthcare in the following three areas:
- Effective Reporting and Measurement: Acute Care Hospitals
- Effective Reporting and Measurement: Acute Care Hospitals (ENHANCED AWARD)
- Lowering the Risk of Infection: Hospitals
The Governor's Award of Excellence program is a partnership between MPRO and the Office of the Governor to recognize outstanding achievements by providers and organizations in healthcare quality improvement. The program, developed in 2003, requires participating healthcare providers to meet specific improvement criteria in order to achieve this prestigious award.
An award ceremony was held May 10, 2017 at Eagle Eye Golf Course in Bath Township, Michigan. BJ Helton, MPH, CIC, Manager Patient Safety and Quality, and Bethany Guerrero, RN, BSN, Infection Prevention Specialist, accepted the award on behalf of Covenant. The 2017 Governor’s Award of Excellence is based upon work from 2015-2016.
This award recognizes participants for their dedication and success in improving healthcare quality and patient safety in Michigan. To be eligible for the award, participants must have achieved, maintained and continually improved in specific and rigorous milestones related to the award they received.
Helton states, “These awards took collaborative efforts with many different departments (nursing, surgical services, pharmacy, laboratory, and environmental services). Covenant promises to give extraordinary care for every generation, and the Governor’s recognition of our promise is a great honor.”
Left to right: Bethany Guerrero, RN, BSN, Infection Prevention Specialist at Covenant, Leland A. Babitch, M.D., MBA, President and CEO of MPRO, and BJ Helton, MPH, CIC, Manager Patient Safety and Quality at Covenant.