Hoda Salam Nakhla (left) and Deborah Nelson of Mental Health Service, HMC, with NDNQI award.
Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has been named a winner of the ‘2016 NDNQI Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality’ by Press Ganey Associates, Inc. HMC has won awards for its Mental Health Service and Rumailah Hospital.
Selected from more than 1,900 hospitals affiliated with the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI), HMC was the only award recipient located outside of the US and is among an elite group of six hospitals that received the national award for 2016 during a ceremony held last month in Orlando, Florida. The NDNQI Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality is bestowed annually to the best performing hospital in each of six categories including academic medical centre, teaching hospital, community hospital, paediatric hospital, rehabilitation hospital and psychiatric hospital. To be eligible for the award, hospitals must have submitted data on a minimum number of measures in 2015.
Ghaya Al Tamimi, Director of Nursing at Rumailah Hospital, said: “I am extremely glad and proud that we have received this award. This award represents the high quality care that patients at Rumailah Hospital receive from a group of dedicated nurses.” The NDNQI Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality recognizes hospitals that have achieved excellence in overall performance in nursing quality indicators.
Hoda Salam Nakhla, Acting Director of Nursing with HMC’s Mental Health Service, said the award is an important achievement for HMC and its patients.
