Graham Hospital wins national efficiency award: Graham Hospital is one of six hospitals to win T-System Client Excellence Award for emergency department quality, efficiency: Graham Hospital has announced that it was one of six hospitals to receive the first annual T-System client Excellence Award. T-System Inc., the industry leader in clinical, business and IT (information technology) solutions for hospital emergency departments (EDs), selected the winners from more than 1,700 facilities nationwide. Award winners represented the facilities that most effectively partnered with T-System in 2010 to improve their quality, operational and financial results in the ED. Graham Hospital won the T-System Client Excellence Award for Patient Safety and Financial Improvement, reflecting results achieved by using T SystemEV, the nation’s leading emergency department information system (EDIS), as well as T-Sheets, the system that set the standard in ED documentation solutions. “We’re pleased to recognize our hospital clients for helping to set the standard for improving operations and efficiency in the emergency department,” said Sunny Sanyal, CEO of T-System. “We hope that other hospitals will apply these leading practices, which ultimately will lead to better patient care.” In recognition for its achievements, T-System will make a donation to the Graham Hospital Foundation. Graham Hospital also will be recognized by T-System at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, a prominent healthcare industry conference, in Las Vegas from Sept. 28 through Oct. 1. Other winners include: Good Samaritan Health Systems Emergency Services (Kearney, Neb.) – Nursing Care Efficiency; King’s Daughters Medical Center (Brookhaven, Miss._ -- Patient Service and Performance Improvement; Canonsburg General Hospital (Canonsburg, Pa.) – Patient Throughput and Efficiency; Sanford Health (Fargo, N.D.) – Process Improvement to Address Increased Volume; Great Plains Medical Center (North Platte, Neb.)( -- Leadership in Health Information Exchange. For more information, visit: www.grahamhospital.org, http://www.tsystem.com/excellence. A group of Graham Hospital employees gather to celebrate being one of six hospitals to receive the first annual T-System Client Excellence Award.
