North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 489)
Felix Soto, CFO, and Mariana Gattegno, Director, Quality and Patient Safety with Wellstar North Fulton Hospital joined the show to celebrate the achievement of the Oglethorpe Award earned by the hospital. Mariana explained the years of work, the intense application process, and the verification process that took place during the height of the pandemic. Felix discussed the elements that comprise the award, from processes to employee practices, to patient safety. The award is a hard-won achievement given to only a few organizations in the state of Georgia yearly. Congratulations Wellstar North Fulton!
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Wellstar North Fulton Hospital
Felix Soto is Chief Financial Officer at Wellstar North Fulton Hospital. Mariana Gattegno is the Director of Quality and Patient Safety at the Hospital.
Equipped with the latest technology and medical expertise, Wellstar North Fulton Hospital is committed to delivering quality, personalized care, tailored to you.
From their convenient Roswell location, Wellstar North Fulton Hospital offers the most advanced stroke care and leading therapies, specializing in complicated and complex cases. Count on their dedicated neuro team, state-of-the-art imaging technologies, and neuro-trained intensive care unit (ICU), to treat all types of strokes, including ischemic strokes, intracerebral hemorrhages, and subarachnoid hemorrhages.
Wellstar North Fulton’s team of neurosurgeons, neurocritical care physicians, and neuroradiologists perform thrombectomies, aneurysm treatments and cerebral bypass procedures. In addition, our dedicated hybrid neurovascular suite is equipped with innovative bi-plane technology. This allows neurosurgeons to view highly detailed images of brain vessels, so our experts can customize treatments in real-time. That means you don’t have to go far for expert stroke treatment.
From diagnostic testing to life-saving emergency care to physical rehabilitation, Wellstar North Fulton Hospital provides comprehensive stroke care so you can get back to life, faster.
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The Georgia Oglethorpe Award
Due to its high standard for excellence, the Georgia Oglethorpe Award represents one of the most significant levels of recognition an organization can receive. Recipients of the Georgia Oglethorpe Award are examples for excellence for other organizations. This award is presented after a rigorous evaluation to recognize organizations that have achieved management and operations performance excellence. The examination process consists of an Organizational Profile and a formal 50-page application responding to the Sterling Criteria for Performance Excellence. A formal external assessment consists of off-site and on-site assessment of how well an organization’s processes are defined, aligned, deployed, evaluated, and improved.
Only 89 organizations have earned awards since 1992 from the Florida Sterling Council—the organization that administers the Georgia Oglethorpe Award. The awards are “presented annually to high performing, role-model organizations, both private and public, that demonstrate superior management approaches and role model results,” according to the Florida Sterling Council.
Questions and Topics in this Interview:
- I hear you won a big award recently. What exactly is the Sterling Oglethorpe Quality award and what is it given for?
- What was the evaluation process like and how long did it take?
- Why is it important for the community to know the hospital won this prestigious award?
- How many hospitals in Georgia won it for 2022?
- How exclusive is this award?
- Why should people choose Wellstar North Fulton for care?
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