With the new application tool, recognizing your colleagues for keeping our patients and colleagues safe is easier than ever. The new tool includes a user lookup name feature, which automatically populates key information about the nominee. Click here to get started. You can also access the Forms quick link on the Connect homepage. The Shamrock Award form is located under Admin Forms.
There’s also a new SharePoint site to highlight Shamrock Award winners and Clover recipients. The site will feature winners starting in FY25. Click here to view.
The Shamrock Award was created by Chief Safety Officer Dr. Joan Shook to increase the awareness of patient safety across the hospital system. The Quality and Safety department recognizes individuals and teams/departments who have excelled in providing patient safety efforts with the monthly Shamrock and Clover Awards.
“I started the Shamrock award because wonderful things happen here every day and I believe people should be recognized and rewarded for them,” said Shook. “It is an honor to be able to recognize individuals who make our world safer and a privilege to be able to meet those people and hear their stories first hand. We have a remarkable workforce here.”
Named after the spectacular Shamrock Hotel on the edge of the Texas Medical Center in the 1950s-60s, the award recognizes employees on a monthly basis who have done something to keep our patients and/or colleagues safe.
Dr. Shook came to Texas Children’s over 40 years ago to do her pediatric residency. She’s held numerous leadership roles including chief of emergency medicine twice and has been the chief safety officer for the last 20 years.