Advocate Trinity Hospital President and Community Health Team Win Prestigious Chicago Healthcare Awards

Advocate Trinity Hospital was well represented at the 41^st Chicago Health Executives Forum (CHEF) and American College of Health Care Executives Annual Meeting on February 29, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

Advocate Trinity Hospital’s Community Health Team, led by Jackie Rouse, was awarded the Service Excellence Award for their Project Health transitional care program. This program is aimed at improving patient health outcomes and avoiding readmissions. Education is provided to patients as they move from hospital-based care to healing at home, which has helped to avoid unnecessary and costly Emergency Department visits.

The program is offered free-of-charge to the community and involves a collaborative relationship with all members of the each patient’s multidisciplinary care team. Since its inception, Project Health team members have assisted more than 1300 patients.

In addition, Terika Richardson, president, Advocate Trinity Hospital, was awarded the 2016 Young Healthcare Executive Award. In 2016, Richardson joined Advocate Health Care, where she earns high marks for community engagement, physician partnership, strategy and vision.

As president of Advocate Trinity Hospital, Richardson leads an effort to recruit specialists and build out service lines to combat diseases and conditions that disproportionately impact the hospital’s service area. At the corporate level, Richardson serves on the Advocate Digital Task Force, as well as the Compliance Committee.

In the broader community, Richardson is a board-certified healthcare management Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and a member of ACHE’s Young Careerist Committee.

Recently, Crain’s Chicago Business named Richardson to its 2016 Class of 40 under 40 for achieving outstanding professional success before the age of 40.