WakeMed Celebrates 2024 Service Excellence Award Winners

Raleigh, N.C. (August 5, 2024) – Each year, Professional Research Consultants (PRC) identifies health care organizations that have gone above and beyond to achieve excellence with the patient experience. The PRC Excellence in Healthcare Awards are based on the percentage of patients who rate the Overall Quality of Care/Overall Quality of Doctor Care (for providers) as “excellent.”

In 2024, we are proud to recognize numerous Top Performer Awards, which recognizes service lines and physicians scoring at the 100th percentile within the PRC national client database, and 5-Star Awards, which recognize those at or above the 90th percentile. Congratulations to our award winners!

Top Performer Awards

Cardiac Rehab – Cary

Cardiac Rehab – Raleigh Campus

MyCare 365 Primary & Urgent Care – Glenwood

MyCare 365 Primary & Urgent Care – Spring Forest

Physical Therapy – Brier Creek

Physical Therapy – Cambridge Village

Pediatric Pulmonology – Clayton

Pediatric Weight Management – Clayton

Pulmonary Rehab – Raleigh Campus

Christiana Bernal, MD – Pediatric Gastroenterology

Kevin Davidson, MD – Pulmonology & Critical Care Medicine

Caroline Helmink, PA-C – Urology

Alexis Hess, MD – General Surgery

Carmin Kalorin, MD – Urology

Annelise Landreth, NP – MyCare 365

Veshana Ramiah, MD – Hematology & Medical Oncology

Mariam Rashid, PA-C – MyCare 365

Audrey Rhee, MD – Urology

Kayla Sasser, PA-C – Urgent Care

Danny Taylor, PA-C – Wake Orthopaedics

Tyler Williams, DO – MyCare 365

Gabriel Winberry, MD – Pediatric Gastroenterology

Mark Wood, MD – Wake Orthopaedics

5- Star Awards

Units/Departments/Physician Practices

Heart Center Cardiac Unit – Raleigh Campus

5B Neurology -Raleigh Campus

Emergency Department – Apex Healthplex

Emergency Department – Brier Creek Healthplex

Emergency Department – Cary Hospital

Medical Day Treatment – Cary Hospital

Emergency Department – Garner Healthplex

Mobile Critical Care

Endoscopy – North Hospital

Outpatient Rehab – Clayton

Outpatient Rehab – Durant Road

Outpatient Rehab – Raleigh Medical Park

Outpatient Wound Care – Raleigh Campus

Physical Therapy – Oberlin

Pulmonary Rehab – Cary

Bariatric Surgery & Weight Loss – Wake Forest

Advanced Heart Failure – Raleigh Campus

Atrial Fibrillation Center – Raleigh Campus

Cardiology – Brier Creek

Cardiology – Oberlin

Complex Arrhythmia – Raleigh Campus

MyCare 365 Primary & Urgent Care – Hope Valley

Pediatric Cardiology – Apex

Pediatric Cardiology – Clayton

Pediatric Cardiology – North

Pediatric Surgery – North Raleigh

Urgent Care – Forestville Crossing

Urgent Care – Fuquay Varina

Urgent Care – Kildaire

Wake Orthopaedics Urgent Care – North Raleigh

Providers

Tehmina Adnan, MD – Primary Care

Shereen Alavian, MD – Pediatric Primary Care

Andrew Allen, PA-C – MyCare 365

Troy Anderson, MD – Primary Care

Ndidi Azikiwe, MD – General Surgery

Susan Blumenthal, PA-C – Hematology & Medical oncology

Lindsay Boole, MD – Pulmonology & Critical Care Medicine

Matthew Bruehl, MD – Pediatric Pulmonology

Anna Ciccolini, PA-C – Urgent Care

Brianna Considine, PA-C – MyCare 365

Charlotte Culler, FNP – MyCare 365

Alisha Davenport, NP – MyCare 365

Michelle Deans, PA-C – Atrial Fibrillation Center

Mark Englehardt, MD – Cardiology

Bobby Ferguson, DO – Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery

Jon Forbes, DO – Pulmonology & Critical Care Medicine

Nelson Gardner, MD – Primary Care

Alesia Gilmore, MS – Outpatient Mental Health & Well-Being

Ashlyn Gruber, PA-C – MyCare 365

George Hamrick, MD – Cardiology

Curtis Hanson, MD – Wake Orthopaedics

Page High, NP – MyCare 365

Shirley Huang, MD – Pediatric Weight Management

Krista Kirby, PA-C – Urgent Care

Brian Klausner, MD – Center for Community Health

Judit Kuhn, MD – Pulmonology & Critical Care Medicine

Bill Lagarde, MD – Pediatric Endocrinology

Hillary Lockemer, MD – Pediatric Endocrinology

Janet Lucien, DO – Pediatric Endocrinology

Gina Mauldin, PA-C – Pulmonology & Critical Care Medicine

Rosa Yueh Messer, MD – Primary Care

Joanna Murray, PA-C – Urgent Care

Chelsea Ngongang, MD – Cardiology

Brooke Owen, PA-C – Primary Care

Caroline Priest, NP – MyCare 365

Annie Chen Pugh, MD – Center for Community Health

Erin Reis, DO – Primary Care

Blair Robinson, MD – Pediatric Cardiology

Sara Rooker, MD – Primary Care

Michael Ruffolo, MD – Wake Orthopaedics

Stuart Russell, MD – Advanced Heart Failure

Alayna Stebbins, NP – MyCare 365

Sean Thompson, PA-C – MyCare 365

Matt White, MD – Cardiology

Jennifer Whitham, MD – Pediatric Cardiology

Christine Williams, PA-C – Urgent Care

Judson Williams, MD – Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery

About WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Serving the community since 1961, WakeMed is a not-for-profit health care system founded and based in Raleigh, N.C. WakeMed exists to improve the health and well-being of our community by providing outstanding and compassionate care to all. WakeMed’s 1,003-bed system comprises a network of facilities throughout the Triangle area, including three full-service hospitals, eight emergency departments, a dedicated Children’s Hospital and Rehabilitation Hospital, two exceptional Trauma Centers—a Level I Trauma Center in Raleigh and a Level III Trauma Center in Cary, and more than 165 physician and physical therapy practice offices. WakeMed’s mission-driven team includes more than 11,400 employees, 1,200 volunteers and 1,300 affiliated physicians, along with the more than 800 physicians and advanced practice providers with WakeMed Physician Practices—all representing the best minds and the biggest hearts and the finest quality in health care and community health. For more information, visit www.wakemed.org or follow WakeMed on Facebook, Twitter, Instagramand LinkedIn.

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