Regency Hospital of Hattiesburg Remains
Clinical Center of Excellence through its Partners in Practice Program
December 8, 2006
In its effort to remain among the forefront of LTAC (long term acute care) hospitals, Regency Hospital of Hattiesburg is improving the way LTAC hospitals provide care through their Partners in Practice program.
The Partners in Practice program is designed to provide all Regency clinical employees (i.e., RNs, LPNs and RTs) with over 40 hours of didactic training annually. A dedicated Nurse Educator, Susan Babineaux, RN, teaches a three-module skills-building course in conjunction with Med Ed, Incorporated, a consulting firm sanctioned by AACN (American Association of Critical Care Nurses). This program enables the clinician to qualify to sit for certification exams in Medical/Surgical Care, Progressive Care and Critical Care.
“The feeling of accomplishment is spectacular,” said Patty Rodgers, a charge nurse at Regency Hospital of Hattiesburg. “The educational opportunity, the company support, and most of all, the personal focus to becoming the best will enable Regency to develop clinical centers of excellence, from which patients will receive the greatest benefit.”
The program has had a proven and dramatic effect on the patients through the favorable outcomes they receive, because the clinicians have greater competence in the care they provide. Physicians are also assured that when their patients go to Regency, they will be provided with clinical excellence that is unprecedented in the industry.
“My medical colleagues have the confidence they need to refer very sick patients to Regency Hospital, because we know that the clinical staff have been trained to provide the best critical care possible,” said Dr. Wendell Helveston, President of the Regency Hospital of Hattiesburg Medical Staff.
Regency Hospital Company of Alpharetta, GA, the corporate entity for over 19 hospitals across the U.S., has dedicated a full time Clinical Educator with a clinical care background to oversee the training for all clinicians. Regency is also establishing a clinical ladder for all nursing personnel completing the course with monetary incentives for completion and certification.
Regency Hospital of Hattiesburg provides services to medically complex patients who have suffered recent catastrophic illnesses or injury and require an extended length of stay in an acute care environment, typically longer than two or three weeks.
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