Old Saybrook resident Terri Savino, MSN, RN, CPHQ, has won the 2015 National Association of Health Care Quality Luc Pelletier Healthcare Quality Award. Savino is a Quality Improvement Coordinator, Core Measure Specialist and Trauma Coordinator at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown.

The award recognizes a health care quality professional who has developed and been actively involved in a performance improvement project, program or initiative which has demonstrated improved organizational performance for stakeholders. Terri was nominated for this award for her leadership of a project to improve the treatment of the potentially deadly sepsis infection by early identification and intervention.