Jefferson Township Resident Janet Hunter Named to Chilton Hospital’s ‘Circle of Excellence’ for Nursing

National Nurses Week is celebrated annually starting May 6, also known as National Nurses Day. It concludes on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing.

On Wednesday, May 8, Chilton Hospital’s celebration of National Nurses Week was highlighted by an induction of six nurses into its seventh annual “Circle of Excellence.”

Janet Hunter, RN, BC, of Jefferson Township, won the “Excellence in Senior Generational Initiative” award. She works in Chilton’s Clinical Operations Department.

Other categories included “Nursing Leadership,” “Preceptor,” “Novice Practitioner,” “Staff Nurse” and “Patient Care Technician.”

The American Nurses Association (ANA), the largest nursing organization in the U.S., created National Nurses Week to highlight the diverse ways in which registered nurses, the nation’s largest health care profession, are working to improve health care. The ANA designated the 2013 National Nurses Week theme as “Delivering Quality and Innovation in Patient Care.”

For more information on the nursing program at Chilton Hospital, please visit www.chiltonhealth.org/nursing-at-chilton or call (973) 831-5050.

Chilton Hospital is a fully accredited, 260-bed, acute-care, community hospital. It is the first hospital in New Jersey to received Pathway to Excellence designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Chilton recently embarked on a $24 million modernization project, which includes the Cardiovascular Interventional Lab, The Breast Center and the Total Joint Center. It is also a four-time recipient of the HealthGrades Specialty Excellence Award in Stroke, and Five-Star Rated for Stroke Care, the highest possible, for six years in a row. In addition, Chilton is also Five-Star Rated for Joint Replacement and Total Knee Replacement for 2012. Chilton’s many services include a state-of-the-art Emergency Department, the Sleep Health Institute, the Comprehensive Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center, the Chilton Cancer Center, the MotherBaby Center a weight loss surgery program and minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery. The hospital is located at 97 West Parkway in Pompton Plains, NJ 07444. For more information about Chilton's facilities and services, or to find a doctor by name, specialty, or location, please visit www.chiltonhealth.org or call 1-888-CHILTON.