Beacon Award

The CardioVascular Care Unit at the CardioVascular Institute of North Colorado is proud of its Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence, an award given by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

The award recognizes the nation’s top pediatric, progressive, and adult critical care units across a multitude of hospitals. It  represents extraordinary commitment to high-quality critical care standards, and dedication to the exceptional care of patients and their families.

As a Beacon Award recipient, CVCU at the CardioVascular Institute succeeded in the following areas, as measured against evidence-based national criteria:

• Recruitment and retention
• Education, training and mentoring
• Research and evidence-based practice
• Patient outcomes
• Leadership and organization ethics
• Healing environment