Award for hospital

Award for hospital

AKRON

Akron Children’s Hospital has been recognized as one of the top places to work in Northeast Ohio. The hospital will receive its ninth NorthCoast 99 award at a ceremony Thursday.

NorthCoast 99 is an annual recognition program that honors 99 great workplaces for their ability to attract, retain, and motivate top talent in Northeast Ohio. The program was developed and is presented by ERC, Northeast Ohio’s leading and largest professional organization dedicated to HR practices, programs and services.

This year, Akron Children’s was honored to also receive the Workplace and Community Impact Award, which recognizes winners that are making a unique impact on the community, and in the workplace, by leading by example.

Salem center opens

SALEM

Salem Regional Medical Center opened its new Orthopaedic Bone & Joint Center on Sept. 14 and is preparing to open its new outpatient procedures units one Oct. 12, both on the hospital’s first floor.

The Orthopaedic Bone & Joint Center houses Salem Orthopaedic Surgery, the practice of Drs. Lee T. Simon and Dominic J. Peters. The Center has six patient-exam rooms, a procedure room, a state-of-the-art digital X-ray suite and offices and additional support areas.

The outpatient-procedures area, which opens Oct. 12, will relocate from the hospital’s ground floor to the new first-floor outpatient area. Services provided will include procedures performed by SRMC’s clinical staff; physician-scheduled procedures; and Pain Clinic procedures provided by Dr. Mark Peckman.

However, patient-clinic visits to Dr. Peckman will remain in Physician Clinic A on SRMC’s ground floor.

Gold Awards for Mercy

YOUNGSTOWN

All three local Mercy Health hospitals – St. Elizabeth Youngstown, St. Joseph Warren and St. Elizabeth Boardman – have earned gold awards for a three-year campaign to increase the number of registered eye, organ and tissue donors.

The campaign, Phase IV of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration’s Hospital Champions Campaign, began in June 2011 as a special effort of the Workplace Partnership for Life. Through the campaign, organ, eye and tissue donation organizations worked with hospitals to create engaging donation registration drives, social media campaigns, and other events to raise awareness and register donors within the hospitals’ facilities and local communities.

Some 1,660 hospitals and transplant centers took part, achieving a 30 percent increase in enrollment and a 56 percent increase in recognition. Of the hospitals and transplant centers taking part, 736 earned gold, silver or bronze recognition this year.

St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, St. Joseph Warren Hospital and St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital are among only 24 hospitals in Ohio to earn the gold award. These three hospitals have garnered recognition for increasing the number of registered eye, organ and tissue donors every year since this campaign began. Last year, St. E’s earned a platinum award; St.Joe’s and St. E’s Boardman earned gold. The year before, St. E’s earned gold, and St. Joe’s and St. E’s Boardman earned silver.

Other Mercy Hospitals earning gold recognition this year are Mercy Hospital of Tiffin, Mercy Hospital of Williard and Mercy St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Toledo.