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 |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center - High Point Medical Center | Ticket to Test |
| 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 |