Baptist Health Corbin receives the 2021 KHA Quality Award

Baptist Health Corbin’s Critical Care Unit (CCU) recently received the 2021 Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) Quality Award for Acute Care Hospitals with more than 250 beds.

The KHA Quality Award honors hospital leadership and innovation in quality, safety, and commitment in patient care. The goals of this award are to raise awareness of the need for an organization-wide commitment to highly reliable, exceptional quality, and patient-centered care.

The CCU was recognized for the prevention, detection and treatment of ICU patients who are at high risk for delirium. The CCU delirium intervention project started in early January 2020 with a multi-disciplinary team that included nurses, hospital providers and the critical care intensivist.

The team met to collaborate on protocols and prioritize interventions from an evidence table, which included lighting that mimicked sunrise to sunset, and visual cues for patients and staff, patient, family and staff education, standardizing assessment tools for delirium in the electronic medical record, according to a release.

The overall goal is to prevent delirium and decrease length of stay, restraint usage, ventilator day and reintubation in the Critical Care Unit.

“Our team was amazing. We identified a patient need and worked as a team to provide the best patient care possible,” said Heather Napier, executive director of Quality and Outcomes at Baptist Health Corbin.

KHA rewards successful efforts to develop and promote improvements in quality of care and to inspire organizations to systematically integrate and alight their quality improvement efforts throughout the organization.

“This team’s dedication to their patients is amazing. I never cease to be impressed by their passion for patient care,” added Baptist Health Corbin Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President Sherrie Mays.

Baptist Health Corbin is a 273-bed, acute care facility providing a wide variety of healthcare services to the residents of Whitley, Knox, Laurel, Bell, Clay, McCreary, Harlan counties and Campbell County in Tennessee.

Part of nine-hospital Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health Sytem, Baptist Health Corbin offers 24 points of care in a full continuum, from inpatient care and outpatient diagnostics to rehabilitation services, behavioral health and home care. Services include heart care, orthopedics, wound care, pain management, cancer care, diabetic treatments, and a full range of women’s services, including obstetrics and breast care.