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GREELEY, Colo. (May 17, 2019) – Banner Health presented North Colorado Medical Center with “Banner’s Best of the Best” award recognizing the hospital as one of the system’s highest performing hospitals.
Banner Health leaders presented the awards during the health system’s Leadership Matters conference Tuesday, May 7. Each year Banner recognizes hospitals and clinics based on a scorecard with strategic initiatives. The initiatives focus on clinical excellence, customer experience, learning and connecting patients to the MyBanner patient portal. They also present Amazement Awards for team projects that help Banner fulfill its mission of making health care easier.
NCMC won the Best of the Best Award for large hospitals over 7 other Banner hospitals in Arizona. This is the third time NCMC has received this honor.
“Banner Health is one of the nation’s largest health systems and is leading the way in finding innovative solutions to make health care easier for patients,” said Margo Karsten, chief executive officer for Banner Health in Northern Colorado and president of Banner’s Western Region. “I’m awed by the accomplishments of our peers across Banner, so to be honored as the top large hospital in that group is amazing.
“This happened because our employees and medical staff always keep the patients we serve as our top priority.”
NCMC had several highlights in 2018:
- Opened Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center at North Colorado Medical Center in August to provide cancer care that is fully integrated with MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. In addition, four new medical, surgical and radiation oncologists joined the medical staff.
- Completed the hospital’s 100th transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR. This procedure allows a surgeon to replace a heart valve through a minimally invasive approach as opposed to open-heart surgery.
- Used “mixed reality” to build a hybrid operating suite. Before construction began, surgeons wore virtual reality headsets to “feel” the room and its layout, adjustment design and save costs. The room is recognized as a state-of-the-art surgical suite and will be the site of a live surgical broadcast this summer for physician education.
- Achieved Primary Stroke Center certification from The Joint Commission showing NCMC’s stroke response team follows the best methods to care for patients suspected of having a stroke.
- Raised the level of its neonatal intensive care unit from a Level 2 to a 3 that allows the team to care for babies who are born more prematurely (28 weeks or greater).
Banner Medical Group’s Western Division team received an Amazement Award for creating a career ladder for medical assistants. The project involved mapping ways medical assistants can grow in their careers, take on more responsibility and earn higher pay. Greeley-based leaders Joe Gregory, MD, physician executive, and Jane Chadwick, human resources business partner, were members of the project team.
Banner also presents an award to the hospital that achieved highest scores for customer experience measured through patient surveys. McKee Medical Center in Loveland received the award this year for medium-sized hospitals in the system.
This year’s Leadership Matters conference was broadcast live to five locations in Banner Health hospitals in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, and Greeley to more than 500 leaders. About 75 leaders from Banner’s Western Region came to Greeley for the event.
About North Colorado Medical Center
North Colorado Medical Center is a fully accredited, private, nonprofit facility licensed in Greeley, Colorado, operated by Banner Health, a nonprofit healthcare system with 28 hospitals in six states. It serves as a regional medical center offering a comprehensive scope of community-based and specialty health care services for an area including southern Wyoming, western Nebraska, western Kansas and northeastern Colorado. It offers Emergency care, cancer care, heart care, orthopedics, inpatient and outpatient surgery, obstetrics, pediatrics, rehabilitation, intensive care, lab and medical imaging, medical air transport and the Western States Burn Center. For more information, visit www.BannerHealth.com/NCMC.
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