Our fall/winter 2023 “SPLAT!” campaign has closed, and we have prize winners to announce!
First, thanks to everyone who participated. Three SPLAT! days were held – one in October, one in November and one in December – in an effort to promote handwashing and infection prevention protocols across Ballad Health. Our clinical teams at Ballad Health inpatient facilities and long-term care areas (but not outpatient clinics) participated.
What is SPLAT?
This kind of campaign has been used successfully at various health systems around the country and has been featured by the American Nurses Association, the American Journal of Infection Control and other organizations.
It was intended as a fun way to reinforce the lessons learned at recent hand hygiene review sessions, and is part of our continuous mission to deliver safe patient care and to be a zero-harm health system.
Each clinical team member was given three cards on the designated day. Throughout the work shift, if a team member caught another not performing proper handwashing when required, they were able to “SPLAT!” that team member by giving them one of their cards.
The cards say: “SPLAT! You missed a hand hygiene opportunity. Now it’s your turn to help prevent the spread of infection and SPLAT! someone else.” The goal was for the team member to hand out all three cards that day, while not receiving any cards. At the end of the shift, anyone with zero cards was entered into the prize drawing.
If you see your name on the list of winners below, please contact Neelee Griffith at 423-325-8493 or neelee.griffith@balladhealth.org before Friday, Jan. 5, to claim your prize.
SPLAT prize winners
Apple Watch
- Jennifer Hobbs, mammography, HVMC
Dollywood winners
- Kira Goosman, M-S/3 West, GCH
- Haley Rice, IP occupational therapy, JCMC
- Luke Arnold, pharmacist, SSH
- Stephanie Cade, lab tech, JCMC
- Lauren Cline, OBS/4500, JCMC
- Amanda Caldwell, wound care, HVMC
- Lara Smith, nuclear medicine, BRMC
- Tammy Thompson, environmental services, NCH
- Tammy Hardee, ICU 1st floor, BRMC
- Rebecca Mowery, respiratory therapy, JMH
Barter winners
- Pearl Darnell, telemetry tech, GCH
- Erin Fauver, PACU, JCMC
- Bryson Burgess, transporter, JCMC
- Laura Hartman, ICU/4th floor, GCH
- Kathy Fagan, pediatric surgery, JCMC
- Jeremy Kramer, M-S/A-300, HVMC
- Andrea Martinez, surgery, HVMC
- Elizabeth Reynold, M-S/100-200-300, NCH
- Lucas Gaskins, endoscopy, BRMC
- Jina Boyd, respiratory therapy, JMH
