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Berger Hospital intensive care unit recognized for Excellence. 09/01/2026 Circleville, Ohio - The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has conferred a Bronze-level Beacon Award for Excellence on the ICU at OhioHealth Berger Hospital. This prestigious recognition is notable - more than 575 units nationwide applied for the award last year. Download Interactive Maps The Beacon Award for Excellence celebrates unit caregivers who achieve exceptional patient outcomes while fostering a healthy work environment. Units that earn the award meet AACN's six Healthy Work Environment Standards, demonstrating a systematic, evidence-based approach to patient care and nursing excellence. This year, four units applied for recognition in one or two individual modules, reflecting a growing commitment to advancing patient outcomes and workplace culture. Discover more Download Interactive Maps Search Public Records AACN President Rebekah Marsh, BSN, RN, CCRN, applauds the ICU team at OhioHealth Berger Hospital for their dedication. "The Beacon Award for Excellence recognizes caregivers in outstanding units whose consistent and systematic approach to evidence-based care optimizes patient outcomes," Marsh said. "Units that receive this national recognition serve as role models to others on their journey to excellent patient and family care." "Our ICU team embodies the very best of patient-centered care," said Casey Liddy, president of OhioHealth Berger Hospital. "This recognition reflects not only their clinical expertise but also their dedication to creating a supportive and collaborative environment where patients and families feel truly cared for every day." While many units provide exceptional care, Beacon-awarded units distinguish themselves through measurable achievements in patient outcomes, nursing workforce excellence, and work environment quality. Participation in the Beacon Award program allows units to reflect on performance against peers nationwide, often with award-level distinctions separated by less than a single point, highlighting the rigor and competitiveness of this recognition. The ICU at OhioHealth Berger Hospital joins a national network of Beacon Award recipients, setting a standard for outstanding care, teamwork, and professional nursing practice. Berger Hospital ICU team members pose with their award. The Beacon Award for Excellence recognizes caregivers who achieve exceptional patient outcomes while fostering a healthy work environment. Discover more Run Background Checks Read Political News About OhioHealth Based in Columbus, Ohio, OhioHealth is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit, charitable, healthcare outreach of the United Methodist Church. Download Interactive Maps Serving its communities since 1891, OhioHealth is a family of 36,000 associates, physicians and volunteers, and a network of 16 hospitals, three joint-venture hospitals, one managed-affiliate hospital, 200+ ambulatory sites and other health services spanning a 50-county area. It has been recognized by FORTUNE as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" 15 times since 2007. For more information, visit ohiohealth.com. About the Beacon Award for Excellence Established in 2003, the Beacon Award for Excellence offers a road map to help guide exceptional care through improved outcomes and greater overall patient satisfaction. U.S. and Canadian units where patients receive their principal nursing care after hospital admission qualify for this excellence award. Units that receive the Beacon Award for Excellence meet criteria in six categories: leadership structures and systems; appropriate staffing and staff engagement; effective communication, knowledge management, and learning and development; evidence-based practice and processes; and outcome measurement. To learn more, visit www.aacn.org/beacon or call 800-899-2226. About the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses For more than 50 years, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has been dedicated to acute and critical care nursing excellence. The organization's vision is to create a healthcare system driven by the needs of patients and their families in which acute and critical care nurses make their optimal contribution. AACN is the world's largest specialty nursing organization, with about 130,000 members and over 200 chapters in the United States.

OhioHealth taps Qventus to automate care operations across the enterprise. Following proven success with Qventus' Inpatient Capacity Solution, OhioHealth expands its partnership to transform the perioperative journey for patients SAN FRANCISCO-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Qventus, the leader in automated care operations software for health systems, today announced that OhioHealth has expanded its partnership to include the Perioperative Care Coordination and Surgical Growth Solutions, making them the latest health system to implement Qventus' AI solutions across the enterprise. This expansion builds on OhioHealth's success with Qventus' Inpatient Capacity Solution, which saved nearly 13,000 excess hospital days - equivalent to almost 35 excess patient years - generated $5.1M in cost savings, and automated nearly 2,900 hours of administrative work for frontline staff. AI has advanced to the point where it can meaningfully reduce below-license work for frontline staff, lower overall costs, and improve the patient experience in ways that weren't possible just a few years ago. Yet while 65% of health system leaders rank the pressure to operationalize AI at 7 or higher out of 10, only 4% have achieved scaled implementation with measurable outcomes. After years of sustained ROI with Qventus' Inpatient Capacity Solution, OhioHealth turned to Qventus to achieve ambitious goals for its perioperative program - scaling their PAT program to ensure more patients are optimized for surgery while driving strategic surgical growth, ultimately dialing down their overall cost curve. Their expanded partnership is now driving transformation across the category that more than 70% of health system leaders rank as "very critical" or "mission-critical" to their 2026 objectives: automated care operations across care settings. "OhioHealth is committed to adopting technologies that strengthen care delivery and support our caregivers," said Brian Jepson, Market President, OhioHealth. "Building on our experience using Qventus' AI-enabled operational platform, we're expanding this work into the perioperative setting to help reduce administrative burden, better prepare patients for surgery and increase access to surgical care through more efficient scheduling. These efforts support our mission to improve the health of those we serve." AI admins to supercharge PAT staff and improve the patient experience With the Perioperative Care Coordination Solution (PCC), Qventus' high-tech sidekicks can track down patient records, confirm patient availability for phone calls, intelligently mine and summarize charts, and risk-stratify patients to remove below-license administrative work for PAT nurses. Built by anesthesiologists and PAT nurses with extensive PAT clinic experience, Qventus' solution addresses the full complexity of pre-admission testing workflows unlike other voice-only point solutions. OhioHealth can now optimize more patients further in advance of their surgeries, reduce 72-hour surgery cancellations, and allow nurses to spend more time focused on patient care. AI teammates to drive strategic surgical growth After implementing EHR-native tools and other AI solutions without seeing the strategic growth results they were seeking, OhioHealth turned to Qventus. With Qventus' Surgical Growth Solution, OhioHealth gains access to a suite of AI assistants that orchestrate end-to-end workflows to increase robotics volume, improve primetime utilization, and accelerate service line growth. Fully embedded in OhioHealth's Epic EHR and clinic EMRs, Qventus' suite of AI teammates works 24/7 to ensure the right cases are in the right rooms at the right time - ultimately attracting more volume from independent surgeons. Machine learning algorithms are personalized to surgeon preferences and behavior patterns, intelligently matching open OR slots with the right surgeons, eliminating first-come, first-served inefficiencies and prioritizing high-value cases. Automating care operations across the enterprise OhioHealth joins a growing number of health systems expanding their relationship with Qventus beyond a single care setting. The expansion underscores a broader industry shift toward viewing automated care operations as a critical part of a health system's tech stack. By deploying Qventus across care settings, health systems are realizing the full potential of an integrated AI platform that delivers sustained ROI and adapts to their evolving needs, a trend that has been validated in recent research. Unlike new point solutions that require resource-intensive implementations, Qventus clients benefit from a unified platform with fully embedded EHR integrations and proven AI assistants who work together to automate complex workflows for overburdened staff. "We build our solutions with clinicians who deeply understand pain points in care delivery, removing administrative burden so care teams can focus on what matters most: patient care. When health systems experience the tangible impact of automated care operations in one area, they see the potential to transform operations system-wide," said Mudit Garg, CEO and co-founder, Qventus. "OhioHealth exemplifies the kind of forward-thinking leadership that understands AI isn't just about solving isolated challenges. They saw firsthand how Qventus' AI platform alleviates the burden from frontline staff and unlocks same-store margin improvements across the organization. We're honored that they've chosen to deepen our partnership and look forward to helping them improve patient outcomes, decrease surgery cancellations, and unlock strategic surgical growth that strengthens their ability to serve their community." About Qventus Qventus uses AI to intelligently automate operations across care settings to help health systems secure the margins needed to achieve their mission of delivering exceptional care to patients in their communities. Leveraged by more than 150 hospital facilities, Qventus' enterprise platform and AI solution suite reduce the administrative burden, identify potential issues upstream, surface suggested interventions, and actually take action to solve problems for busy healthcare staff - a collective system of action that sits on top of a hospital's enterprise systems of record. Qventus unlocks best-in-industry ROI by driving strategic surgical growth, creating capacity, and reducing costs, all while delivering powerful insights to help solve long-standing operational challenges once and for all. 100% of clients say they consider Qventus part of their long-term strategy. Learn more at www.qventus.com. About OhioHealth OhioHealth is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit, charitable healthcare organization based in Columbus, Ohio. Driven by its Mission to improve the health of those HealthTech HotSpot LLC serve, OhioHealth serves its communities through 16 hospitals, over 200 ambulatory sites including physician offices, urgent care centers and outpatient procedure facilities. OhioHealth has over 35,000 associates, physicians and volunteers who are committed to providing patient-centered, compassionate care. As one of the largest employers in Central Ohio, OhioHealth provides nearly $800 million in annual community benefits. For more information, visit OhioHealth.com.