Wake Forest Baptist Health-Wilkes Medical Center received an âAâ in the Fall 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinction recognizing the hospitalâs achievements protecting patients from harm and providing safer health care.
The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization driven by employers and other purchasers of health care with a goal of improving health care quality and safety for consumers and purchasers.
Leapfrog assigns âAâ through âFâ letter grades each spring and fall to over 2,600 participating general acute-care hospitals nationwide based on their performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections and other harms to patients in their care. Wilkes Medical Center received an âAâ this spring also.
Whoâs getting stuck first? Vaccine details still unclear as NC hospitals receive first shipments An Atrium Health employee prepares to administer the first dose of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine in North Carolina on Monday, December 14, 2020. (Source: Atrium Health) By Nick Ochsner | December 15, 2020 at 1:32 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 6:27 PM
Just before noon Monday, Dr. Katie Passaretti stood still while a nurse stuck a needle in her arm and injected a dose of cold liquid.
Then Passaretti, the medical director of infection prevention at Atrium Health in Charlotte, stood in front of a cell phone and made a video.
âSo I just got my first COVID vaccine, the first one at Atrium,â Passeretti, donning clear protective eyeglasses and a teal face mask, told the camera. âIt feels perfectly fine.â
âThis is our Super Bowlâ: Atrium Health distributes first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses to frontline workers
First healthcare workers receive vaccine By WBTV Web Staff | December 14, 2020 at 10:06 AM EST - Updated December 14 at 10:53 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV/AP) - The first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine was received by healthcare facilities in North Carolina.
A short time after Gov. Roy Cooper announced that the first COVID-19 vaccine doses arrived in North Carolina, Atrium Health in Charlotte posted that the vaccine arrived at the healthcare facility.
âThe vaccine has arrived at Atrium Health. We are excited to be among the 1st in the nation to receive the first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine,â Atrium Health tweeted. âThis is an exciting day as we enter a very hopeful phase in defeating this virus. Stay tuned for updates here.â
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