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NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Kosair Children’s Hospital receives Magnet designation
LOUISVILLE, Ky.(Oct. 19, 2007): Appraisers from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) have awarded Magnet designation to Kosair Children’s Hospital. With this designation, Kosair Children’s Hospital becomes the only Magnet hospital in Louisville and one of only 20 Magnet-designated children’s hospitals in the country.
Magnet designation recognizes hospitals throughout the world for excellence in professional nursing practice, provides an evidence-based framework for improving the work environment and validates a hospital’s investment in nursing service.
“Magnet recognition is a stamp of excellence in nursing,” said Doug Eighmey, president, Kosair Children’s Hospital. “The Magnet designation is a result of our nurses’ passion, hard work and caring attitude toward our patients and their families. They should be congratulated on this prestigious honor.”
Kosair Children’s Hospital has been working through the Magnet designation process for the past three years. In March, the hospital submitted documentation of its high standards of excellence to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program appraisers, who then conducted a site visit in August.
Magnet recognition has an impact on the community and Kosair Children’s Hospital staff. “It tells patients that Kosair Children’s Hospital is a great place to receive care,” said Teresa Stroud, R.N., vice president, Patient Care Services. “It’s also a recruitment tool for nurses, physicians and other health care workers, because everyone wants to work for an organization that is constantly growing and moving forward.”
Magnet recognition also means Kosair Children’s Hospital is dedicated to continually improving its quality of care. “It is not a one-time shot,” said Jill Berger, R.N., director of education and research, Kosair Children’s Hospital. “Once you receive Magnet recognition, you must reapply every four years.”
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Licensed for 263 beds and recognized as one of the top children’s hospitals in America, Kosair Children’s Hospital, a part of Norton Healthcare, is located in the Louisville Medical Center and is connected by pedway to Norton Hospital. It is the region’s only comprehensive, free-standing pediatric hospital, and the only hospital in Kentucky offering a pediatric trauma center. A complete range of services are provided for children, including pediatric intensive care and one of the nation’s largest intensive care nurseries for newborns.
Kosair Children’s Hospital serves as the pediatric teaching facility for the University of Louisville School of Medicine and is supported by the Children’s Hospital Foundation. As part of its commitment to teaching and research, the hospital offers special programs for cancer; heart, lung, kidney and infectious diseases; respiratory ailments; neurology and neurosurgery; general pediatric surgery; orthopaedics; diabetes; psychiatry and plastic surgery; and infant/pediatric heart, kidney and bone marrow transplants. Because of the hospital’s special mission, all care is provided by professionals specially skilled in the care of children. The hospital operates the area’s only self-contained pediatric burn unit.
