WellStar Wins Two Statewide Patient Safety Awards for Excellence in Patient Care

The Partnership for Health and Accountability (PHA) presented its prestigious Quality and Patient Safety Award to WellStar Health System and to WellStar Windy Hill Hospital, both in Marietta. The health system’s project titled, “Glycemic Control Initiative,” improved inpatient diabetes care and won second place in the Hospital/Health Systems Category. WellStar Windy Hill’s project, titled, “War on the Spore: Clostridium difficile among Patients in an Acute Care Long Term Hospital,” decreased infection rates and won third place in the Hospitals with Less Than 100 Beds Category.

WellStar Health System Wins Statewide Patient Safety Award for Reduction of Health Care Associated Infections

The Partnership for Health and Accountability (PHA) presented its prestigious Quality and Patient Safety Award to WellStar Health System for its project that reduced health care associated infections (HAI). The project titled, “Providing Safe Care by Reducing the Incidence of Health Care Associated Clostridum Difficile Infections,” won third place in the highly-competitive Infection Prevention and Control Category.