Four alert health professionals each recently recognized something was wrong when screening four different mothers in the Baby and Me Tobacco Free program. In each situation, the women had troublesome levels of carbon monoxide in their systems that were noticed during a breathing evaluation. Home inspections were conducted, in which heating system gas leaks were identified and repaired, and the four mothers and their families were protected from harm. All four professionals have been presented the Tennessee Department of Health’s Commissioner’s Achievement Award. The recipients include Kelly Hooks, RN, Putnam County Health Department; Andrea Sansone, The Edge Women’s Care Center, Dayton; Kelly Soliman, RD, Cheatham County Health Department; and Katie Winterburn, MS, RDN, LDN, Lawrence County Health Department.
Ted Anderson, MD, PhD, professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been elected treasurer of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
Murfreesboro dentist William R. "Roy" Thompson, DDS, MAGD recently received the Jack Wells Memorial Dedication to Dentistry Award during the Tennessee Dental Association's 148th annual session in Nashville. The award, which isn’t presented every year, is given to truly deserving recipients who embody four criteria set forth by the TDA: quality of practice, service to organized dentistry, contribution to dental education, and humanitarian service.
Lovell Communications recently accepted 10 Healthcare Advertising Awards from the Healthcare Marketing Report. The Nashville agency received highest honors in the social media category with Gold Awards for innovative campaigns on both Facebook and Pinterest. Lovell also received Bronze Awards in the newspaper advertising and calendar categories, along with Merit Awards in the brochure, newspaper advertising, outdoor transit/billboard, and logo/letterhead categories.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has appointed David L. Miller, president and chief operating officer of Community Health Systems, Inc., to the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia.
The American Advertising Federation Nashville recognized BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee as the Multicultural Advertiser of the Year for its extensive efforts to support diversity and inclusion through its campaign to Hispanic audiences.
Arthur Dalley, PhD, professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt, recently received the highest award for human anatomy education in the anatomical sciences during the 2015 Experimental Biology meeting in Boston. He accepted the Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award Medal for 2015 and was also named a Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists.
Based on a review of Medicare STARS 2014 quality data, Dickson Medical Associates has been recognized and rewarded by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s Medicare Advantage Quality Incentive Program as being among an elite group of top physician practices statewide serving plan members with outstanding supportive treatment and appropriate preventive care.
Amber Sims, vice president of Saint Thomas Health Alliance, was honored in Washington, D.C. on June 6 as one of “Tomorrow’s Leaders” at the 2015 Catholic Health Assembly.