Photos: Patient Safety Week celebrates UMMC’s culture of quality care
Published on Monday, March 11, 2024
By: Rachel Vanderford, rvanderford@umc.edu
Photos By: Joe Ellis, Jay Ferchaud and Melanie Thortis/ UMMC Photography
Patient Safety Week, an annual mainstay at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, is a time set aside each year to recognize the previous year’s accomplishments in safety metrics, that includes hospital acquired infections, patient experience and hand hygiene. This year’s theme “Cover Your Bases” emphasizes the importance of being thorough when it comes to providing safe and effective care.
Medical Center leadership gathers to greet faculty and staff as they arrive for Patient Safety Week.
Dr. Lisa Didion, chief medical officer; Jason Zimmerman, chief nursing officer; and Dr. Alan Jones, associate vice chancellor for clinical affairs, greet employees on their way into work last week.
Kim White, unit secretary, reacts to her spin on the Safety Wheel on 3 Wiser.
Marc Rolph, executive director of communications and marketing, greets faculty and staff with stickers during Patient Safety Week.
Evelyn Spencer-Scott, registered nurse, takes a spin on the Safety Wheel for a chance to win prizes as the wheel made a stop at 3 Wiser as part of Patient Safety Week activities.
Dr. Kimberly Crowder, chair of the ophthalmology department, passes out stickers to faculty and staff during Patient Safety Week.
Ashley Taylor, registered nurse, is greeted in front of Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants by Adrienne Murray, director of nursing quality, development and professional practice, and Valerie Stingley, registered nurse and educator as part of Patient Safety Week
Dr. Phyllis Bishop sports a baseball uniform in spirit of the Patient Safety Week theme: Cover Your Bases.
The Patient Safety Week Team consists of, front row, from left, Kim Barrier, Mary Beth Addington, Bishop, Kristin Hardy; and back row, from left, Cadi Thompson-Appleby, Megan Roberts, Lauren Ainsworth, Heather Wise, Pam McCoy and Laura King.
Laurie McHenry, registered nurse, spins the Safety Wheel for a chance to win prizes as the wheel made a stop at 3 Wiser as part of Patient Safety Week activities.