The Pulse | Spring 2025
March 31, 2025
Spring 2025 highlights 50 years of care, expanded services, and key initiatives shaping the future of healthcare at HRHS.
At Hutchison Regional Healthcare System, we want our patients and their families to know that we strive to deliver the highest, national standard of care and that our staff is dedicated to making healthcare a better system for everyone.
This week, we’re celebrating the positive impact that quality healthcare professionals have made not just in our organization, but in our community and our lives.
“Healthcare quality is high-quality care focused on safe, effective, patient-centered, and timely care. It means doing the right thing in the right way at the right time and consistently focusing on safe interactions for patients and families.”
Megan Rucker, Ms.Ed, LRT(R)(M)(CT), FKSRT
Process Improvement/Lean Six Sigma Advisor
“Healthcare quality means taking consistent care of our patients so they can have the best possible outcomes. Following and monitoring quality measures ensures that those taking care of the patients know the exact steps they need to follow to meet those quality standards so that every patient receives the same care every time.”
Jean Gettle, RN
Data Abstractor & Analyst
“As a health service industry, quality is striving to deliver the highest value healthcare to all, just like we would to a member of our own family. Friendly, efficient, patient-centered care, of the highest quality, that ensures the best health outcomes possible.”
Nick Baldetti, D.B.A., M.B.A., M.S., HACP
Chief Quality Officer
“Healthcare quality to me means providing our very best for our patients each and every day. It means continued growth with the ability to provide a little better care today than our best yielded yesterday. It means facilitating every person’s ability to impact positive change in their area. It means staying current on best practices and guidelines. It is a commitment lived every day.”
Kyle Williams, RN
Provider Quality Coordinator
“Standardizing care practices to decrease variation and produce predictable high-quality outcomes.”
Kimberly Jarrell, MS, BSN, RN, HACP, CPHQ
Director of Quality/Patient Experience
“As a member of the Healthcare Quality Team, I gather data based on guidelines from Medicare and other agencies to help our hospital identify targeted areas to focus on improvements to better serve our patients and our community. “
Mary Joyce, BSN, RN, CPHQ
Clinical Review Analyst
“To me, healthcare quality means providing evidence-based care while doing the right thing for every patient, every time. Practicing in this manner reduces the possibility of patient harm. It also ensures that we will meet our quality measures, which are an assessment of our care.”
Julie Wiens, RN, MSN, WCC
Primary Stroke Certification Coordinator
“Quality, at its very root, is doing the right thing for our patients, every encounter, every day.”
Lori Pauls, BSN, RN, HACP
Regulatory and Accreditation Compliance Manager
“I believe that healthcare quality is the driving force to improve patient care on both large scales and an individual basis. Analyzing quality data provides organizations the ability to not only make changes to direct patient care, but to see where they are excelling and where they have gaps. This ultimately directs the bedside staff in the way they execute their processes and procedures, which impacts every patient that enters the facility. That bigger picture is the reason I was drawn to a career in healthcare quality, and what makes me love this side of nursing.”
Megan Beck, BSN, RN
Clinical Quality Coordinator
The American Heart Association awarded HRMC the Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Center Gold award for implementation of quality treatment, care coordination for heart attack patients.
HRMC has been recognized by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for our accomplishment in the Get with The Guidelines quality program.
The American Heart Association named Reno County EMS, recipient of the Lifeline EMS Gold Award for implementing quality improvement measures for care and treatment of heart attack patients.
Spring 2025 highlights 50 years of care, expanded services, and key initiatives shaping the future of healthcare at HRHS.
HRHS’s new quarterly newsletter, The Pulse, shares organizational updates, community partnerships, and upcoming events, including a YMCA collaboration, 50th Anniversary celebrations, the Youth Art Contest, and recognition for exceptional service.
The Hutchinson Regional Medical Foundation (HRMF) has launched a housing program to encourage healthcare providers to live in the communities they serve. The program offers housing incentives for providers who commit to a three-year stay in Reno County. The program, currently extended to doctors, advanced practice providers, and therapists, aims to enhance local healthcare access and boost the local economy. The first recipient, Dr. Doug Moore, will begin serving the community in August.
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