San Jacinto Methodist Hospital News
Jane DeStefano
Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer
Recognizing a Stellar Team!
Following Nurses Week, our It’s hard to believe that team headed straight into half of the year is already National Hospital Week where behind us, but with each Members of the Stroke Certification Committee accept the Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Award. Team members include (top row, the celebrations continued passing day we continue from left): Terri Hall; Bruce Kennedy, M.D.; Loida Guillen, RN; Robert Bain, RN; toward our goal of excellence (front row, from left): Dorothy Terry, RN; JonAnn Watson, RN; Pauline Fivecoat, with a proclamation from the City of Baytown, recognizing and providing the highest RN; Sharon Tatum, RN; Stephanie George, RN. both Nurses Week and quality of care to our community. Most recently at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital, Hospital Week. Representatives from The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association also presented San we celebrated Nurses Week with a host of activities. We Jacinto Methodist with the 2013 Get With The Guidelines®– began the week with an opening reception and a fiesta Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. This marks buffet. As we continue our Magnet journey, we took this the third consecutive year that San Jacinto Methodist has opportunity to continue to educate team members on the process through a poster presentation and guest speaker earned this award, making our hospital the only one in the Kathleen Stolzenberger, Ph.D. We also hosted a dinner Bay Area and one of only two in the greater Houston area to pay special tribute to our certified nurses. To close out to receive three consecutive Stroke Gold Plus awards. Of the week, our nurses were treated to fun and relaxing course, this would not be possible without the dedication activities such as a photo booth and ice cream social. Then, and hard work of our exceptional team – from our Stroke to culminate the week of festivities, we gathered with our Certification Committee members, to the nurses, and each friends and colleagues from other Methodist entities to employee who interacts with our patients. recognize the outstanding efforts of our nurses at the annual Looking ahead, we have many exciting things on the gala. I would like to take this opportunity to once again horizon and by working together, we will achieve even congratulate the Nursing Award finalists and winners for a greater success which in turn will allow us to better serve job well done. our community.
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