Baptist Health earns honor
Baptist Health-Fort Smith was one of the system's four hospitals honored June 7 by the American Heart Association for stroke patient treatment.
Receiving the association's Get with the Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Award were the hospitals in Fort Smith, Conway and Little Rock. Baptist Health-Arkadelphia was honored with the Get with the Guidelines-Stroke Silver Award.
Baptist Health-Fort Smith and the hospitals in Conway and Arkadelphia, were named to the Target: Stroke Honor Roll for having at least 50% of eligible patients treated within 60 minutes of hospital arrival.
The Fort Smith hospital also earned a Level 3 Award from the Arkansas Department of Health for its participation in the Arkansas Stroke Registry, a quality improvement program.
Screenmobile opens in NWA
Screenmobile opened its first Arkansas location last month in Northwest Arkansas. The mobile screening business serves Benton and Washington counties.
Brock Erdman owns Screenmobile of Northwest Arkansas. He worked in sales and marketing roles at the Soderquist Center and Saatchi & Saatchi X before opening Screenmobile. His wife, Sarah, will help him run the business.
Screenmobile specializes in window, door and patio porch screens, as well as solar shading products. The company started in 1980 and has more than 119 licenses across the country.
Beaver Water District honored
Beaver Water District received special recognition from the American Water Works Association's Partnership for Safe Water for maintaining Directors Award status for the past five years. The five-year Directors Award for Water Treatment is presented to plants in good standing that have maintained this level of performance.
The water district supplies drinking water sourced from Beaver Lake to Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers and Bentonville. These cities in Northwest Arkansas pump, store, distribute and resell the water to their more than 350,000 customers, their cities and surrounding areas.
Washington Regional earns award
Washington Regional Home Health was recognized by Strategic Healthcare Programs as a "superior performer" for a second consecutive year. The award is for achieving an overall patient satisfaction score that ranked in the top 20% of all eligible Strategic Healthcare Programs' clients for the 2018 calendar year.
The 2018 award recipients were determined by reviewing and ranking the overall satisfaction score for more than 2,500 home health providers.
Washington Regional employs more than 3,000 people and includes a 425-bed medical center and more than 40 clinics. Strategic Healthcare Programs is a data analytics and benchmarking firm.
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