The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) on Thursday named eight recipients of its annual Lantern Awards, which recognize EDs that exemplify quality, safety, a healthy work environment, and innovation in nursing practice and emergency care.
The eight recipients include:
-
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Emergency Department (Barrington, Ill.);
-
Beaumont Health System – Grosse Pointe Emergency Center (Grosse Pointe, Mich.);
-
Boston Children's Hospital Emergency Department (Boston);
-
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department (Los Angeles);
-
Chandler Regional Medical Center Emergency Department (Chandler, Ariz.);
-
Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Seay Emergency Center (Dallas);
-
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Emergency Department – Burnet Campus (Cincinnati); and
-
Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital Emergency Medicine and Trauma Center (Indianapolis).
To qualify for the award, EDs must complete an extensive application that reviews performance metrics, narratives, and qualitative questions and then share exceptional practices and attributes of the ED itself. A total of 27 EDs applied for the award.
"The Lantern Awards are part of the ENA’s effort to promote exemplary nursing practice and to recognize hospitals that are going above and beyond in ensuring their emergency departments are providing the highest quality care to patients” Gail Lenehan, ENA's president, said in a release.
The award is named in memory of Florence Nightingale, a 19th century nurse who was known as the "Lady of the Lamp"—working deep into the night to save British soldiers during the Crimean War—and played a pivotal role in changing the nursing field from an untrained job to a skilled, science-based profession (Brimmer, Healthcare Finance News, 7/18; ENA release, 7/16).
