Ms. Ferlie Villacorte, MSN/MPH, CNS, RN from Harbor-UCLA is the recipient of this year’s Richard Hader Visionary Leadership Award. The national award recognizes one nurse leader per year for connecting science and humanity. Ms. Villacorte was praised for promoting a positive work environment, improving professional development opportunities, creatively using existing resources and serving as a transformational leader in a time of rapid changes in health care coupled with a pandemic.” Her supervisor Dr. Griselda Gutierrez emphasized that “She truly is a transformational leader.” That’s Excellence! read more

Do you remember back to the time before E-Consult? When Xeroxed papers went back and forth from clinics to specialists as the only gateway for our patients to get the specialty care they needed. Dr. Hal Yee brought in our current E-Consult system, vastly improving on the paper system. Today, more than 20,000 consultations are completed per month, with a median one-day turnaround. Wait time is 17% lower! Dr. Yee was recognized for both the innovation and improvement as one of the Top 25 Innovators by Modern Healthcare under the Quality and Safety category. We see it as Excellence! read more