American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Recognizes the Medical Telemetry Unit at Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital

Orlando, FL (February, 2 2024) – – The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), Aliso Viejo, California, recently presented the silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence to the Medical Telemetry Unit at Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital.

The Beacon Award for Excellence — a significant milestone on the path to exceptional patient care and healthy work environments — recognizes unit caregivers who successfully improve patient outcomes and align practices with AACN’s six Healthy Work Environment Standards.

Units that achieve this three-year, three-level award with a gold, silver or bronze designation meet national criteria consistent with the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the National Quality Healthcare Award.

“Our nurses at Orlando Health South Seminole hospital are the true unsung heroes of our community,” said Shawn Molsberger, President of Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital. “This award reflects the dedication of our team members in providing the exceptional care our patients come to expect when they enter our hospital.”

“This award reflects the dedication, compassion and expertise that define the heart and soul of our nursing staff,” said Jennifer Stoeke MSN, RN, CENP, chief nursing officer, Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital. “Under the leadership of Ghita Khalil, Nurse Operations Manager of the Medical Telemetry Unit at Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital, we have set a standard of excellence that inspires us to continually strive for better patient outcomes.”

The silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence earned by Medical Telemetry Unit at Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital signifies an effective approach to policies, procedures and processes that includes engagement of staff and key stakeholders. The unit has evaluation and improvement strategies in place and good performance measures when compared to relevant benchmarks. Medical Telemetry Unit earned its silver award by meeting the following evidence-based Beacon Award for Excellence criteria:

• Leadership Structures and Systems
• Appropriate Staffing and Staff Engagement
• Effective Communication, Knowledge Management and Learning and Development
• Evidence-Based Practice and Processes
• Outcome Measurement

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization with $9.6 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico.

Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of one of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care units, one of the only systems in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows.

The 3,429-bed system includes 32 hospitals and emergency departments – 26 of which are currently operational with six coming soon. The system also includes nine specialty institutes, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 375 outpatient facilities that include physician clinics, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. More than 4,950 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 29,000 team members and more than 1,400 physicians.

In FY 23, Orlando Health cared for 197,000 inpatients and 6.6 million outpatients.  The healthcare system provided nearly $1.3 billion in total impact to the communities it serves in the form of community benefit programs and services, Medicare shortfalls, bad debt, community-building activities and capital investments in FY 22, the most recent period for which this information is available.

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