Congratulations to this year's Award Winners!
2025 Gold Touchstone Awards
| Facility | Project Title |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Improving Perioperative Emergency Response through Practice Change and Simulation |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | IMPROVING OUTCOMES TO REDUCE MORTALITY THROUGH: PHYSICIAN MORTALITY REVIEWS AND CONTINUOUS PHYSICIAN EDUCATION ON PALLIATIVE CARE, HOSPICE CARE, AND SEPSIS BUNDLE COMPLIANCE |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Timely Advocacy: Aligning Patient Values and System Objectives by Using an RN Screening Tool to Advocate for Early Palliative Care |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Jump on Board with “Rapid Intake”: Redefining care delivery in the Emergency Department to reduce the effects of boarding and improve Patient Safety at Carolinas Medical Center |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | Establishing a Sepsis Program at Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Emergency Department |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | Novel Use of Surgeon’s Intraoperative Data Improves Patient Outcomes for Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | All Hands-on Deck: A Multidisciplinary Team Driving Prevention of Central-Line Associated Bloodstream Infections |
| Atrium Health Levine Beverly Knight Olson Children's Hospital | Ventilator Associated Event (VAE) Reduction Utilizing Bundle Sets in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| Atrium Health Levine Children's Specialty Center | Creating Safe Spaces in Pediatrics: A Roadmap for Emotional Health |
| Atrium Health Union | Decreasing CLABSI Prevention Misses: Secure Chat Photography to ensure CLABSI Prevention Guidelines |
2025 Silver Touchstone Awards
| Facility | Project Title |
| IL & WI Medical Group | Guiding Progress: The Patient Experience Navigation Map |
| Advocate Children's Hospital | Breaking Babel: Implementing a Universal Interpreter Symbol at the Bedside for Equitable Care |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Silent Threat, Strategic Response: Pioneering C. auris Screening for Safer Care |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Freezing Chemo Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Its Tracks |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Pharmacist Involvement in Outpatient Heart Failure Management |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | No Crumb in Bed: A Nurse-Led Initiative to Improve Mealtime Mobility |
| Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital | Sepsis Stops Here: Bundle Up for Better Outcomes (Improving Pediatric Sepsis Bundle Compliance at Levine Children’s Hospital) |
| Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital | Get Moving to Get Snoozing! |
| Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital | Breastmilk Administration in the Neonatal Departments |
| Atrium Health Levine Children's Primary Care Pediatrics | Enhancing Patient Safety through Vaccine Medication Scanning in Primary Care Pediatrics |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | Sustaining the Elimination of Hospital Acquired Infections |
| Atrium Health Pineville | TeamBirth: Implementing a Care Process for Improving Interdisciplinary Communication & Maternal Outcomes at Atrium Health Pineville |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Virtual Discharge Follow-up Reducing COPD 30-Day Readmissions |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Impact of a Daily Device Safety Huddle (DSH) on Device Utilization and Infections |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Utilizing a Multi-System Approach to Enhance Hospital Safety Culture Through the Reduction of Serious Safety Events |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center | CLABSI Reduction Through a CHG Treatment Refusal Escalation Pathway |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist High Point Medical Center | No More Chillin' in the OR - Patient Warming Technologies: Enhancing Perioperative Care and Outcomes at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist High Point Medical Center |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center | Reducing PJ Paralysis: Promoting Mobility, Dignity and Recovery Through Patient Engagement on an Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Unit |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center | Improve Access to Breast Cancer Care: APP Intake Visits at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center | Implementation of the GutCheckNEC with Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) Checklist in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) |
| Aurora Medical Center - Oshkosh | Surgical Site Infection/Hand Hygiene/Room Cleanliness |
| Aurora St. Luke's South Shore | A Picture Worth a Thousand Words for HAPI Prevention |
| Child Advocacy Centers (Cabarrus, CMC, Union, Stanly) | Silent Struggles: Enhancing Depression Detection and Response in Child Advocacy Centers |
| Enterprise | Standardized Nurse Residency to Achieve Excellence, Meet National Standards, and Surpass Organizational Needs |
| NC & GA Division | From Prescription to Prevention: Emergency Medicine Pain and Addiction QI, A Data-Driven Path Through the Opioid Crisis |
2025 Bronze Touchstone Awards
| Facility | Project Title |
| Advocate Children's Hospital - Park Ridge | Reducing Unplanned Extubation Rates by Enhancing Chest X-Ray Film Quality Through Multidisciplinary Collaboration |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Advocate Christ Medical Center Incomplete ED Visit Reduction |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Kidney Transplant Perioperative Process Improvement |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Elevating Operating Room Orientation to Onboarding: Strengthening Team Engagement and Surgical Safety |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Driving Improvement: A Hospital-Wide Strategy to Reduce Nurse Sensitive Indicators (NSIs) |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Pedal Movement |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | “Frontline Booty Inspectors (FBI) in Action: No Pressure, No Problem” |
| Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital | Safe Beginnings: A Cribside Approach to Improving Sleep Safety in the Newborn Nursery |
| Atrium Health Lincoln | Reimagining Prevention: A Critical Care Initiative to Prevent Pressure Injuries |
| Atrium Health Mobile Medicine | The UA Program—Clinically Driving Capacity |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | Implementation of Bedside Shift Report for Emergency Department |
| Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center | Puppy Love: Barkley IS a Code Lavender! |
| Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center | From Prolonged to Proactive: A LOS Success Story |
| Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center | Tenecteplase Administration: Door-to-Needle Time |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Optimizing Sepsis Management: A Journey from Audit to EHR Solutions |
| Atrium Health Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute | Preventing Cardiac Events in the Chronic Limb Ischemia Population with Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography |
| Atrium Health Stanly | Reducing Length of Stay in the Behavioral Health Unit with a Focus on Major Depressive Disorder Diagnosis Patients |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center | Rethinking End-Of-Life Care Diagnostics: Cessation of Blood Culture Testing |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center | What Matters Most: Standardizing Whiteboard Communication and Rounding to Improve Patient Experience |
| Aurora Lakeland Medical Center | Improving Inpatient Flow: Reducing ED Decision-to-Admission Time Through a Standardized Report Window |
| Aurora Medical Center Burlington | Leading the Way: Best Practices for Falls Prevention |
| Greater Charlotte | Mitigating Maternal Mortality: Implementing an Innovative Approach for Case Reviews in an Electronic Database |
| Greater Charlotte | Joint Effort: Partnering Across Disciplines to Increase Early Mobility for Patients After Total Hip or Knee Arthroplasty |
| IL Division & WI Division | Zeroing in on Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs): The IL & WI Division Nurse-Led CAUTI Collaborative’s Journey to Improving Patient Outcomes |
| IL Division & WI Division Ambulatory Primary Care | Advocate Aurora Medical Group Quality Improvement Orientation Redesign |
2024 Gold Touchstone Awards
| Facility | Project Title |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Investigating Nursing Impact on Surgical Outcomes by Adding a Thermo-Reflective Blanket to Warming Protocol: A Randomized Control Trial |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Driving Improvement in PSI 11 Postoperative Respiratory Failure through Culture Change and Collaboration between Cardiac Surgery, Anesthesia, and the Adult Surgical Heart Unit Team |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Divide and Conquer: A Strategic Split of the Triage Process to Improve Care Delivery Flow and Reduce the Number of Patients that Leave Without Being Seen in the Emergency Department. |
| Atrium Health Greater Charlotte Market Carolinas Rehab Network | No Delay Authorizations |
| Atrium Health Navicent | Teammate Experience Executive Leader Rounding |
| Atrium Health Primary Care Cabarrus Family Medicine | Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Hispanic Population |
| Atrium Health Primary Care Cabarrus Family Medicine | It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere: Streamlining Communication for More Efficient Clinic Days, a Happier Team, and Fewer Late Nights at the Office |
| Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute | Cardiac Surgery Care Transformation Across the Continuum |
| Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center | Journey of Excellence & Driving Improvement |
| Behavioral Health Service Line | Optimizing Access, Costs, and Throughput of Psychiatric Patients in Acute Care Emergency Departments |
2024 Silver Touchstone Awards
| Facility | Project Title |
| Advocate Children's Hospital | Advocate Children’s Hospital CAUTI-free One Year and Counting |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Sepsis Success: AIMMC Sepsis Program and Outcome Improvements |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Nurse-Driven Sepsis BPA Usability Improvement |
| Advocate Midwest Region -Illinois and Wisconsin Hospitals | Surgical Acute Kidney Injury Prevention: Enterprise Kidney Health Initiative, Surgical Episodes of Care |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Re-Creating a Medical Observation Unit to Enhance Patient Flow |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Breaking the Barriers: Reducing VTE Events through Quality Improvement Efforts |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | The Completion of Admission Orders Prior to Transport Complete for Admitting Emergency Room (ER) Patients |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center & Atrium Health Floyd Behavioral Health Center | Reducing the Patient Turnaround Time |
| Atrium Health Greater Charlotte Market | Chest Compression Compliance Improvement Project |
| Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital | Medic to the Rescue: Developing a Paramedic Driven Workflow in the Pediatric Emergency Department to Reduce Incomplete Visits and Improve Patient Experience |
| Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital | PICCing the Right Process: A QI Project to Reduce PICC-line Associated Thrombosis, Improve Care, Enhance Patient Experience, and Save Resources |
| Atrium Health Lincoln | Enhancing Patient Safety: A Virtual Approach to Reducing Urinary Catheter Utilization in Critical Care |
| Atrium Health Navicent Medical Center | Dolls Aren't Just for Babies Anymore |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist | Vaccines Don't Have To Be Painful: Streamlining NCIR Integration |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center | Rover for Wound Images: A Quality Improvement Project on an Acute Care of the Elderly Unit |
| Aurora BayCare Medical Center | Reducing Hospital Acquired Central Line Bloodstream Infections |
| Aurora Medical Center Kenosha/Mount Pleasant | Diagnostic Cardiology Scheduling Improvement |
| Aurora Sinai Medical Center | What the Butt: Pressure Injury Reduction in Intensive Care |
| Aurora St. Luke's South Shore | ASLSS Fall Reduction Initiative |
| Aurora West Allis Medical Center | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Electronic Patient Screening by Level 2 MR Trained Personnel |
2024 Bronze Touchstone Awards
| Facility | Project Title |
| Advocate Health Midwest Region | Condition Management & Documentation Best Practice Advisory |
| Advocate South Suburban Hospital | Improving Patient Experience through Excellence in Surgical Care and Enhanced Communication |
| Atrium Behavioral Health Charlotte | Enhancing Psychiatric Emergency Department Triage Process to Optimize Patient Care: A Nursing Led Initiative in Collaboration with Strategic & Operational Consulting |
| Atrium Behavioral Health Charlotte | Standardizing Behavioral Health Emergency Department Nursing Rounds Incorporating Diagnostic Sensitivity of the Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression (DASA) to Improve Workplace Violence |
| Atrium Health Anson | Anson Mobile Produce Market |
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Psychiatry & Counseling - Davidson | Empowering Mothers: Nurturing Wellbeing Through a Maternal Wellness Program |
| Atrium Health Capacity Command Center | Minding your P's and Q: Tracking Patients through CMC's Queue |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Emergency Medicine Pain and Addiction Quality Improvement |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Reducing Intraoperative Opioid use in Cardiac Surgery patients with Cardiac ERAS Multimodal Analgesia |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Reimagining ED Space: Improving Throughput by Converting a Waiting Area into a Treatment Care Space |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Implementation of a Penicillin-Allergy Protocol in Open Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: Preoperative Optimization Program |
| Atrium Health Central Area | Mindful Advocates: The Gravitational Power of Well-being through Peer-to-Peer Support |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Strategies for Improving Patient Safety: A Comprehensive Approach to Pressure Injury Reduction |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Emergency Department Electrocardiogram Process |
| Atrium Health Greater Charlotte Market | Implementation of Weapons Screening Technologies |
| Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute | Application of Failure Modes Effects Analysis to Total Body Irradiation to Improve Patient Safety |
| Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital | Developing a Nephrotoxic Medication Stewardship Information Model for Timely Risk Mitigation and Quality Improvement: A Sisyphus Tale |
| Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital | Optimizing Communication Around Fertility Risk and Fertility Preservation in Pediatric Patients Receiving Chemotherapeutic Agents or Radiation Therapy |
| Atrium Health Navicent | Tackling CAUTI at the ICU Level with Physician-Led Gatekeeping |
| Atrium Health Transition Clinic-Kenilworth & Atrium Health at Home-York | Seamless Synergy: Collaboration between Transition Clinic and Home Health |
| Atrium Health Union and Atrium Health Union West | Dedicated to Quality and Safety: A New Approach to Safety Event Reviews |
| Atrium Health Union West | Improve Patient Experience with a Multifaceted Approach |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist | The Making of a Mobility Motivator: Decreasing Falls by Increasing Movement for Patients with Cancer |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist High Point Medical Center | Stand-Down for Strokes |
| Aurora Medical Center Kenosha | Patient Mobility Challenge in Acute Care setting: Changing Nursing Care Delivery to Decrease Inpatient Geriatric Functional Decline, Length of Stay, and Impact Discharge disposition. |
| Aurora Sinai Medical Center | From Pilot to Practice- Enhancing Care Coordination Through Standardized Multidisciplinary Rounds to Drive Length of Stay Reduction |
| Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center | Improving Post-Transplant Vaccination Compliance via Implementation of a Clinical Pharmacist-Managed Service |
| Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center | ASLMC Cath Lab Cardiology Quality Improvement Project |
| Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center | Reducing Colon Surgical Site Infections |
| Midwest Integrated Care Management | Midwest Regional Transitional Care Management Strategy using IVR Technology |