Celebrating Our Nurses

TriStar Horizon celebrates our nurses and hospital staff to recognize the work they do day-in and day-out.

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Local Recognition

We express our gratitude to nurses and hospital staff who take initiative to perform additional responsibilities above and beyond their job description. Our CARES Awards are given out quarterly, ensuring not one act of service at our facilities goes unnoticed. It's our way to spotlight nurses and staff who embody our HCA culture and values.

HCA Excellence in Nursing

HCA Excellence in Nursing Awards recognize the intrinsic value of the nursing practice in accomplishing the company mission of providing the highest level of care to our patients. Each TriStar Health hospital spotlights two of its outstanding nurses on an annual basis for the following criteria:

Compassionate Care Award

Compassionate Care Award recipients exemplify providing compassionate, patientcentered, community-focused care. They push past the glass ceiling of everyday acts of kindness, acting as an advocate for their patients and giving them their all to get them through their hospital stay.

Professional Mentoring Award

Professional Mentoring Award recipients build off their past nursing experiences to mentor new nurses, showing servant leadership to their colleagues. They go the extra mile to ensure confidence, education and professional development are of the utmost priority in the nursing practice.

HCA Unit of Distinction

HCA Unit of Distinction Award is the highest honor a hospital's medical-surgical department can receive. Medical-surgical nursing is the heart of patient care in our hospitals and we recognize our units on an enterprise level for improved patient outcomes and exemplary nursing performance in clinical practice. The Medical Surgical Unit at TriStar Horizon has received this award for three consecutive years. Tennessee State Representative Mary Littleton recently visited TriStar Horizon to present a copy of Governor Bill Haslam's proclamation recognizing the outstanding achievement of the unit's dedication to providing high quality care.

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