Quality Summit

At Enloe Health, caregivers continually look for ways to improve services.

The Enloe Health Quality Summit has been at the core of this work since 2009. This unique annual event brings the organization together to share new projects and celebrate successes.

Each year, leading up to the Quality Summit, Enloe encourages caregivers to pursue improvement projects in their own departments. Teams create posters illustrating these projects. At the Summit, we present Quality Summit Awards, including the Marcia Nelson, M.D., Quality Summit Award, to the caregivers with the most outstanding projects.

This focus on continual improvements is responsible for many of the great things happening at Enloe. A constant pursuit of excellence helps ensure you and your loved ones receive excellent care.

The Winners

Congratulations to the winning posters of 2026.

Marcia Nelson Quality Summit Award

  • Quality Summit PosterSepsis Core Measures: Enloe Health has made dramatic improvements to its sepsis care since 2016, reaching record-high compliance and outperforming national averages. Enloe’s national SEP-1 Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Management Bundle compliance increased from 35.8% in 2016 to 92.2% in 2025, a major accomplishment in early detection, treatment speed and clinical coordination. Enloe’s numbers in the Opportunities for Improvement category also showed tremendous improvement, dropping from 88 in 2018 to 17 in 2025. Finally, despite a temporary pause in sepsis data abstraction in 2020 due to COVID-19, Enloe Health Enloe Medical Center rebounded with its strongest performance yet. Caregivers achieved 100% in Sepsis Core Measures compliance in January and February of 2026, demonstrating an ongoing commitment to patient safety and care.

Quality Awards

  • Heart Failure: People with heart failure face many challenges, including symptom management, medication adherence and getting timely access to care. Caregivers implemented four strategies: early identification and follow-up, enhanced patient education, nurse-led care coordination, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Of the 647 people referred to Enloe Health Heart Failure, 110 were readmitted within 30 days of discharge. Thanks to the Heart Failure team’s intervention, only 64 of these readmissions took place due to heart failure symptoms.
  • Improving Patient Safety by Reducing Clostridioides Difficile Infections: Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a major cause of health care-associated infection (HAI). Caregivers improved assessment and documentation to make sure only appropriate specimens would be tested, used a two-step polymerase chain reaction toxin algorithm during laboratory testing, and established a standardized, nurse-driven policy to promote early detection. In 2024, the number of CDI HAI cases had decreased by 35%. At the end of the fourth quarter of 2025, only five cases were reported. In 2025, the number of CDI HAIs had dropped by 92%.

All Submissions

In 2026, more than 100 posters were submitted for the Quality Summit.

Learn about the great work going on at Enloe Health.

View the Posters