MEMPHIS, Tenn. —Baptist Memorial Health Care named Gina Burge, family nurse practitioner, Advanced Outpatient Practice Provider of the Year, and Elizabeth Robinson, nurse practitioner, Advanced Inpatient Practice Provider of the Year, at Baptist’s annual Advanced Practice Provider Conference on Friday morning.
Baptist presents APP Awards annually during APP Week to advanced practice providers, such as nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, or physician assistants, who demonstrate excellence in promoting positive change in the nursing practice environment. APP Week is celebrated annually during the fourth week of September, and Baptist recognizes team members at a one-day event designed to educate, inspire, and celebrate local APP providers who ensure patients and communities receive safe, high-quality care.
“Baptist Memorial Health Care’s advanced practice providers are a driving force behind the high-quality care, collaboration, and compassion we offer our patients,” said Robert Ware, director of operations for Mississippi Baptist Medical Center. “They have made noteworthy contributions to providing high-quality patient care and furthering our mission of healing, preaching, and teaching.”
Burge is a certified family nurse practitioner with the Baptist Neurology Clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, and has been with Baptist since 2010. Colleagues who nominated her say she is a trusted and selfless team player who genuinely wants everyone around her to be happy, loved, and heard. Burge holds seminars on migraines and advocates for her patients daily to get them the necessary medicine and treatments.
Robinson is an adult care nurse practitioner with Baptist Medical Group’s neurology unit in Memphis. Team members say she consistently demonstrates exceptional leadership qualities by developing tools and processes to ensure medication safety after discharge. Robinson was critical in advocating, planning, designing, and launching the Baptist Stroke Clinic for post-hospital discharge patients. This has helped the clinic significantly reduce 30-day readmission rates among stroke patients treated at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis.
Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit healthcare systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Consistently ranking among the top integrated healthcare networks in the country, Baptist Memorial comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, North and Central Mississippi, and East Arkansas; a freestanding emergency department; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 900 providers; Baptist Cancer Center; home, hospice and psychiatric care; walk-in and urgent care clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system that includes Baptist Health Sciences University and a college of osteopathic medicine. Baptist employs more than 21,000 people, and in fiscal year 2022, contributed more than $455 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.com.
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