CONCORD, NH – At its Annual Meeting held October 19-21, 2025, the Foundation for Healthy Communities (FHC) bestowed its Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Award on Elliot Health System. The award honors a team of health care professionals who demonstrate a continued commitment to providing quality care to their patients, leading the charge for quality improvement, promoting transparency to improve health care and achieving better outcomes through the implementation of a strong culture of safety.
“When a system dedicates itself to being truly patient-centered, it doesn’t just deliver care; it defines quality for all of us,” stated Peter Ames, executive director of the Foundation for Healthy Communities.
Elliot Health System, Manchester, was recognized with the Honoring Excellence in Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Award due to its commitment to delivering the highest quality of care through its Glycemic Management Workgroup. Since 2019, this group has led focused efforts to reduce preventable hypoglycemia, achieving a 69 percent initial reduction that year, and continuing with a 58 percent further decrease in events from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2025. Their work is a model of structured accountability, data-driven decision-making and relentless pursuit of harm reduction.
In addition, FHC honored Monadnock Community Hospital’s Laura Moran, RN, with the Clint Jones New Hampshire Nursing Award. The Clint Jones Nursing Award was developed in honor of Clint Jones, who worked with extraordinary enthusiasm and commitment at the Foundation and several other New Hampshire organizations, to encourage people to pursue a nursing career in hospitals, schools, long-term care facilities and community practices.
Moran consistently demonstrates outstanding commitment to patient care, both through direct clinical interactions and by initiating improvements that benefit a broader patient population. For example, she recently took the initiative to start cross training in the Monadnock Hospital Emergency Department to try to build bridges between that department and the Medical Surgical Unit. She took the experiences she gained in each department and used them to establish standards of care, specifically related to patient handoff reports, to best fit the needs and time constraints of each department.
About the Foundation for Healthy Communities The Foundation for Healthy Communities is a non-profit organization that builds healthier communities for all by leading partnerships, fostering collaboration, and creating innovative solutions to advance health and health care.