ST. FRANCIS WINS AWARD FOR HEART/STROKE CARE
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center has been recognized with a pair of awards.
St. Francis won a Silver Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Innovation Prize for creating the Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation, a collaboration with the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
The institute has a four-fold mission in the promotion of primary care: improve education for medical students and residents; increase retention of primary care physicians; conduct groundbreaking research on the delivery of primary care services; and assist practicing primary care physicians to keep pace with change.
The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership Inc. was founded in 1987 as America’s first state-level quality award using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality for Performance Excellence criteria.
Also, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association presented St. Francis its Get With The Guidelines Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award for achievement in using evidence-based guidelines to provide the best possible care to patients.
A total of 931 awards were given nationally for achievement in heart attack, stroke and heart failure treatment.
“The goal of this initiative is to improve the quality of life and help reduce deaths and disability among patients with stroke,” said Rolf Knoll, chief medical officer at St. Francis.
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WATER WORKS ELECTS NORRIS
Ted Norris, vice president of operations and engineering for the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority, has been elected president of The Connecticut Water Works Association, a trade association of public water supply utilities. Norris has been with the authority since 1990 and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the construction, distribution, engineering, and contract & new services departments. Norris is also chair of the advisory board to the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven.
Also elected were: Jonathan Avery, Hazardville Water/Jewett City Water Co., as vice president; Michael Elliott, Norwalk 1st District Water, as treasurer; Stephen Pratt, The Metropolitan District, as secretary; David Medd, Aquarion Water Co. as past president; and directors Don Carver, Waterbury Bureau of Water; Robert Wesneski, Avon Water Co.; George Adair, Wallingford Public Utilities; John Hudak, South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority; Al Braig, Connecticut Water Co.; and Guy Russo, Middletown Water Dept.
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FITZSIMONS GAINS NATIONAL POST
Todd J. Fitzsimons, president and owner of Network Imaging LLC, an office technology dealership located in Southington, has been elected vice president of the Business Technology Association, a trade association headquartered in Kansas City, Mo. Fitzsimons was elected to the position by the association’s voting members.
Fitzsimons is the chairman of the board for the Southington Chamber of Commerce.
He began his 22-year career in office technology in 1989 when he went to work for a local Canon dealership. In 1991, he joined Hallet and Co. as sales manager and six years later he purchased the dealership, changing its name to Network Imaging LLC. The 50-year-old dealership serves Connecticut and western Massachusetts and in June acquired Alpha Imaging of Newington.
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