Arkansas Surgical Hospital received the 2019 Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence Award®️ for Patient Experience. The nationally recognized award honors top-performing healthcare organizations that have achieved the 95th percentile or above in performance in Patient Experience. Presented annually, the award names clients who consistently sustained performance in the top 5% of all Press Ganey clients for each reporting period during the course of one year.
The 2019 award recipients were honored at the Press Ganey National Client Conference in Orlando, Fla., on Nov. 18.
Mercy has welcomed a new neurosurgical team that can treat patients with serious neurological illnesses and injuries who formerly had to be sent elsewhere for treatment.
Swetha Boddeda, MD, rheumatologist, has joined the team at Conway Regional Health System. Boddeda is practicing alongside Alok Surana, MD, pulmonologist, and Rachana Yendala, MD, hematologist/oncologist, at the Conway Regional Multispecialty Clinic.
National Medical Fellowships, an organization that empowers aspiring physicians and health professionals underrepresented in medicine to contribute to the health of our nation, has presented CHI St. Vincent Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Joe Hargrove with its Lifetime Achievement Award. National Medical Fellowships presented Hargrove with the award at their annual Champions of Health Awards in Atlanta.