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The American Nurses Association presented three Heartland facilities its 2008 National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality. The award program recognizes NDNQI participating hospitals that have achieved sustained overall excellence in nursing sensitive quality indicators.

This year’s awards are set apart by hospital category. The University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison achieved the Academic Medical Center Award. Poudre Valley in Ft. Collins, Colo., received the Teaching Hospital Award, and Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, Minn., achieved the Pediatric Hospital Award.

NDNQI was established in 1998 as part of ANA’s Safety and Quality Initiative and is part of the National Center for Nursing Quality. The program collects nursing-sensitive data affecting patient outcomes with the goals of providing comparative information to healthcare facilities and developing national data on the relationship between nurse staffing and patient outcomes. NDNQI reports on indicators such as staff mix, patient falls, and nurse satisfaction on a unit-by-unit basis.