HAP Achievement Award Winners

Congratulations to the winners of 2023 HAP Achievement Awards

• Einstein Medical Center Montgomery – Jefferson:  Right from the Beginning – A Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve Compliance of Hepatitis B Vaccine at a Birthing Hospital improves Hepatitis B vaccination rates for infants born at the hospital.

• Main Line Health:  One Health System’s Journey to Address Food Insecurity in its Communities addresses food insecurity as part of patients’ overall health.
  
  

• Warren General Hospital:  Partnering for Success—An Economic and Strategic Turnaround of a Failing Rural Hospital implemented a financial turnaround to preserve access to hospital care in a rural community.

• Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital:  Team Nursing; Changing a Care Model, Changing a Culture implemented a new team-based approach to nursing to reduce staff turnover and vacancies, improve patient and staff satisfaction, and improve quality.

• Allegheny Health Network Jefferson Hospital:  Talent Attraction Program increased the racial diversity of its health care workforce by recruiting and supporting local students from underrepresented communities.
  
  

• Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital:  A Huddle a Day Keeps the Microbes Away implemented new procedures to reduce hospital acquired infections.

• WellSpan Health:  Systemwide Implementation of Real Time Problem Solving to Decrease Serious Events implemented a real time problem solving process to learn from and reduce serious patient safety events.
  
  

• UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital:  Process and Outcomes for Deprescribing Benzodiazepines in the Outpatient Setting for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism studied how to safely and effectively taper off or reduce usage of psychotropic medications for patients with both psychiatric disorders and autism spectrum disorder or intellectual disability.

• Penn Highlands Mon Valley:  Community Care Network Transitions of Care deployed a team to address patients’ barriers to health, improve outcomes, and reduce preventable readmissions.
  

• St. Luke’s University Health Network:  A Multidisciplinary Comprehensive Collaborative Approach to Decrease 30-Day Behavioral Health Readmissions and Enhance Care Quality created a task force to reduce readmissions following a behavioral health emergency.
  
  

• Temple Health:  Social Determinants of Health: A Comprehensive Health System Approach to Screening and Response worked to improve health outcomes and health equity by identifying and addressing barriers to patients’ health.

• Honorable Mention: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania – Cedar Avenue:  An Innovative Approach to Providing High-Quality Surgical Care for a Safety-Net Hospital in a Hub-and-Spoke Relationship implemented a “hub-and-spoke” model to maintain access to high-quality ­surgical care in a historically marginalized community.