Gottlieb Memorial Hospital ICU Receives AACN Silver Beacon Award for Excellence in Patient Care
February 26, 2020MAYWOOD, IL – Gottlieb Memorial Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) has received a silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) for “providing safe, patient-centered and evidence-based care to patients and families."
Gottlieb is one of only 21 patient care units in Illinois, and just 580 in the U.S., that have received a Beacon Award for Excellence, “a significant milestone on the path to exceptional patient care and healthy work environments.” The award provides gold, silver and bronze levels of recognition, for a three-year term.
Beacon Award nominees receive a vigorous peer review of hospital unit processes and standards in the following categories:
- Leadership structures and systems
- Appropriate staffing and staff engagement
- Effective communication, knowledge management and learning development
- Evidence-based practice and processes
- Outcome measurement
AACN President Megan Brunson applauded the commitment of the caregivers at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital’s ICU for working together to meet and exceed the high standards set forth by the Beacon Award for Excellence.
“Receiving a Beacon Award for Excellence demonstrates a team’s commitment to providing safe, patient-centered and evidence-based care to patients and families,” says Brunson. “Creating healthy and supportive work environments empower nurses and other team members to make their optimal contribution.”
The Gottlieb ICU team will receive the Beacon Award during the AACN 2020 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, May 4-7, in Indianapolis.
Gottlieb also recently received an ‘A’ for patient safety from the Leapfrog Group, for the fourth time in a row.
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Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from nearly 2,000 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the John L. Keeley, MD, Emergency Department, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, the Nancy W. Knowles Orthopaedic Institute, a certified comprehensive stroke center, transplant center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
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