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The Keepers of Quality

This year marked Elkhart General’s 20th Annual Quality Expo, an event that highlights the outstanding quality improvements over the past year. Departments and individuals are recognized for supporting a culture of performance improvement, quality and customer service.

Seven awards were presented to individuals who made exceptional strides to improve quality, cost, timeliness, safety, engagement or experience. Congratulations to this year’s winners:

  • Don Westerhausen, M.D.
  • Michelle Howe, M.D.
  • Cheryl Stevens, Rehab
  • Lisa MacDonald, Executive Director of Nursing
  • McKenna VanDyke, Performance Improvement
  • Angie Hobbs, Integrated Patient Scheduling
  • Kim Henke, Critical Care
  • Pete Kamphues, Performance Improvement

The Executive and Physician team recognized the top departments/units that demonstrated the most improvement over the past year:

  • Pharmacy for work on decreasing adverse drug effects
  • Heart Failure Clinic for lowering readmissions
  • Critical Care for its work with code blue roles
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L-R: Betty McKinney, Susan Hawes, Sherry Berkley, Senela Lekic and Maria Behr, all of Elkhart General Pharmacy

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L-R: Elkhart General President Greg Losasso; Michelle Howe, M.D.; and Shelby Morse, Performance Improvement

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