Brookwood Medical Center is proud to announce the Cardiovascular Surgery Unit has earned the Spring 2010 AACN Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence. The Beacon award signals safe harbor to patients and their families and is proven by the staff’s extraordinary commitment to care and safety. The Cardiovascular Surgery Unit takes pride in employee recruitment and retention, patient satisfaction, education, training and mentoring.
The Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence was created by AACN in 2003 to challenge acute and critical care nurses to improve the care provided to acutely and critically ill patients. The application process and Award provides the critical care community a quantitative and qualitative way to view achievements in professional practice, patient outcomes and the health of the work environment.