Princeton Baptist Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Regina Yarbrough was named the recipient of the 2012 Homer Lloyd Leadership Award during a system-wide Baptist Health System (BHS) key management meeting in July. The award is named in honor of a longtime supporter, friend of the system and Baptist Health Foundation board member and is funded by the foundation.
“Over the years, Regina’s lifetime passion for excellence in nursing has been inspired by her faith in God, nurtured by the love of her family and guided by her mentor, Ida V. Moffett,” BHS President and CEO Shane Spees said.
Yarbrough, who attends Flint Hill Baptist Church, Bessemer, began her 40-year career in nursing as a staff nurse at BHS where her abilities to lead by example and with great compassion were soon recognized. Since becoming CNO at Princeton Baptist in 2005, she has been instrumental in developing and implementing many programs, including the clinical rapid response team and student nurse intern programs.
She also directed the implementation of two computerized bedside nursing documentation systems and a state-of-the-art electronic hand-washing monitoring system that greatly reduced the hospital’s Nosocomial Infection Markers. In 2011 Yarbrough was inducted into the Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame.
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