Lincoln, Nebraska – July 19, 2016 – TELCOR congratulates Kerstin Halverson, the most recent recipient of the 2016 Point of Care Coordinator of the Year award, and Patricia Kraft, the Outstanding Contribution to POCT Award 2016.

Kerstin has been the POCC at Children’s Minnesota since 2003. Kerstin oversees the entire POCT program for two hospitals, one ambulatory surgery center, three clinics and one ancillary testing site. This equates annually to over 300,000 patient tests, 2,200 operator competencies, and managing 150 POCT devices.

Kerstin has numerous accomplishments at Children’s Minnesota. In 2002, she was the first to interface glucose, blood gas and co-oximetry results via an HL7 unsolicited result interface.  In 2009, she was one of the early adopters to implement WebMRE®, a QML add-on web solution for nurse charting of manual results that can then be integrated into the clinical laboratory record.  Last year, Kerstin was the first TELCOR customer to interface POCT competencies from their learning management solution (LMS).  She was the first POCC in the entire industry to do so, which has significantly reduced the amount of time spent managing operator competencies for their entire POCT program.

Patricia is the Laboratory POCT, Safety and Education Coordinator at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. She has been with Good Samaritan for 48 years while spending more than 25 years managing their POC program. Among her many accomplishments, like obtaining her AACC Certificate in Point of Care in 2009, she was one of the first in her region to welcome connectivity for glucose meters.

Congratulations to Kerstin and Patricia. TELCOR is honored to work with talented POCT professionals and forward-thinking organizations.

For questions contact Karis Ahlberg at 402-489-1207.

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