Highsmith-Rainey Specialty Hospital ICU Wins Hallmark of Healthy Workplaces Award

The Intensive Care Unit at Highsmith-Rainey Specialty Hospital is one of three facilities statewide to have received the Hallmarks of Healthy Workplaces award from the North Carolina Nurses Association.

The award, presented Friday, April 27, in Winston Salem, is given annually to workplaces in medical or healthcare facilities that best demonstrate a commitment to recruiting and retaining nurses.

All entries in this year’s credentialing competition were judged on specific criteria, including promoting open communication, actions to enhance nursing care toward patients, and degree of recruitment and retention of nurses.

The Hallmarks Credentialing Committee cited Highsmith-Rainey’s “just” culture, team spirit with a family atmosphere, and how the nursing staff felt toward each other and views toward administration. Highsmith-Rainey is a 112-bed long-term acute-care hospital and part of 619-bed Cape Fear Valley Health System.

Dona Caine-Francis, Chair of the NCNA task force that created the program, said Hallmarks is not a competition.

“We would like every health-related agency to meet the standards and to receive this recognition,” she said.