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Internal Medicine earns ACGME accreditation

Internal Medicine earns ACGME accreditation

At its September meeting, the ACGME Review Committee for Internal Medicine granted initial accreditation to the Harnett Health Internal Medicine residency program. This means that along with recruiting DO residents under the AOA accreditation, the internal medicine program can also recruit MD residents as well. This accreditation is part of a national single accreditation system that is merging residency accreditation standards among DO and MD trained resident physicians by 2020.

 

Harnett Health Earns “A” For Patient Safety

Betsy Johnson Hospital and Central Harnett Hospital have both earned an A grade for patient safety, by a leading independent hospital watchdog group.  The grades were recently announced in The LeapFrog Group’s annual Hospital Safety Score ratings survey. The two Harnett County facilities were among 844 hospitals to receive an “A” this year.

The LeapFrog Group’s Hospital Safety Score rating system is considered the gold standard for patient safety. It is the first and only hospital rating system to be peer-reviewed by the Journal of Patient Safety.  Safety ratings are important because they allow patients to determine which local hospitals have the best patient safety track record and which consistently demonstrate improvement.

“Our health system is continuously seeking new ways to improve and to ensure we keep our patients safe,” said Kevin Jackson, President of Harnett Health. “Getting an A-rating from The LeapFrog Group is an external validation that our efforts at Betsy Johnson and Central Harnett are working.”

The LeapFrog group reviews 28 measures of publicly available safety data from hospitals nationwide to produce a single A, B, C, D or F score for each facility. The grades represent a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from preventable harm.  More than 2,600 hospitals are reviewed each year by The LeapFrog Group to come up with the survey results.

“Protecting patients from harm is the most important charge for any hospital,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The LeapFrog Group. “We recognize and appreciate ‘A’ hospitals’ vigilance and continued dedication to keeping their patients safe.”

Founded in 2000, The LeapFrog Group is a national nonprofit organization that collects and transparently reports hospital performance, empowering patients to find the highest-valued care based on potentially lifesaving information.

Harnett Health to Graduate First Class of Resident Physicians

Congratulations to the Class of 2019!

 

In May, the Internal Medicine residency program will graduate its first class of residents: Felix Ajuonuma DO, Briana Mayhew DO., Caleb Richards DO, Timothy Stuart DO and Yamama Hafeez DO.

Along with Internal Medicine, the Transitional Year residency program will graduate its third class of residents: Jeanna Ashman Stover DO, Brian Christensen DO, Chelsea Donathan DO, Joshua Fullmer DO, Geoffrey Luecker DO, Kevin Mathew DO, Jayson Osborn DO, Mandie Pierce DO, Sarah Rodriguez Sawao DO, Joshua Russell DO, Joseph Shortall DO and Stephen Toth DO.