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Akron Children's Hospital's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit has received the Beacon Silver Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN). The AACN created the Beacon Award to recognize individual units that distinguish themselves by improv- ing every facet of patient care. According to the AACN, the Beacon Award recognizes caregivers in units whose consistent and systematic approach to evidence-based care optimizes patient outcomes. The AACN also holds these units up as role models to others on their journey to excel- lent patient and family care. Akron General Medical Center is now offering a new level of clinical services to patients suffering from advanced chronic kidney disease and those receiving kidney dialysis. Physicians from Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute are now available at Akron General to see nephrology patients interested in kidney transplantation. Patients seeking a transplant evaluation will be able to have the majority of the evaluation, testing and lab work per- formed close to home at Akron General's main campus and other sites in the area. For the sixth consecutive year, Aultman Hospital has re- ceived the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific qual- ity improvement measures. In addition, the Aultman Cancer Center was recently presented with the 2014 Outstanding Achievement Award by the Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons. Aultman is one of a select group of only 75 U.S. healthcare facilities with accred- ited cancer programs to receive this national honor based upon surveys performed last year. Cleveland Clinic has received the Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award by Practice Greenhealth, a non-profit organization that provides environmental strategies for the healthcare sector and supports better, safer, greener work- places and communities. This award recognizes healthcare facilities that exemplify environmental excellence and are setting the highest standards for environmental practices in healthcare. The 25 hospitals presented with this honor are leaders in healthcare sustainability with documented success of their innovative programs. Cleveland Clinic was recognized for excellence in the following categories: green building, "Greening the OR," chemicals and climate. Cleveland Clinic's Euclid Hospital has a new President — Daniel Napierkowski, MD, who joined Cleveland Clinic in 1997. In his most recent role, Dr. Napierkowski served as Chair of Regional Practice Anesthesiology since 2010. In this position, he has been responsible for overseeing the anes- thesiologists and certified registered nurse anesthetists who work throughout Cleveland Clinic's regional hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. In 2000, he became depart- ment head of anesthesiology at Euclid Hospital, a position he held until 2010. While serving as the new President, he plans to continue his clinical practice at Euclid Hospital. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ + +++ + +++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++ HOSPITAL ROUNDS ❯ WHAT'S NEW AT AREA HOSPITALS 3 4 | Cleveland/Akron/Canton MD NEWS ■ M D N E W S . CO M ■ J U LY/AU G U S T 2 0 1 5