Awards and Recognition

TMC is proud to announce it has been awarded Workplace Wellness Certification from the KC Chamber’s Healthy KC Workplace Wellness Initiative. “It’s an honor to be recognized for the effort that we make, as an organization, to help keep our employees aware that their health matters,” says Truman Medical Centers President and CEO, Charlie Shields.

The Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study recognizes hospitals and health systems for excellence in IT, based on the organization’s achievements within an analytic structure. Hospitals are stratified based on progress in adoption, implementation and use of information technology in four areas, Infrastructure, Business and Administrative Management, Clinical Quality and Safety (Hospital Inpatient/Outpatient), and Clinical Integration (Ambulatory/Physician/Community).

Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement in generating improvement of care outcomes and return on investment through the use of health information technology. The Davies Award program promotes EHR-enabled improvement in patient outcomes through sharing best practices and lessons learned on implementation strategies, workflow design, analytics, and change management.

TMC Lakewood orthopaedics team has earned Advanced Gold Seal Certification for Total Joint Replacement – Knees and Hips (the first hospital in the Kansas City area to do so), and Gold Seal Certification for Total Joint Replacement – Shoulders.

Health Data Management has selected Mitzi Cardenas as one of the Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT. The awards are broken into three categories: Hospital CIOs & IT Executives, HIT Thought Leaders, and HIT Vendor Executives.

Raquel Garcia, BSN, RN, was named "Heroes in Healthcare" by Ingram’s magazine. Each year the magazine honors those who have shown outstanding service in the health professions.

Doug Burgess, MD

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