Seton Family of Hospitals President and Chief Executive Officer Charles J. Barnett, was recently awarded a Bicentennial Medal from the Seton Legacy of Charity in honor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.

The Seton Asthma Center is one of five outstanding programs nationwide to receive the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management. Chosen for its exemplary efforts to deliver high-quality asthma care, Seton’s program is also the first in Texas to be recognized by the EPA.

The Texas Department of State Health Services is warning consumers to avoid eating any varieties of prepackaged Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough as state and federal health officials investigate an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7.

Seton Family of Hospitals announced Joyce Batcheller, Senior Vice President and System Chief Nursing Officer of the Seton Family of Hospitals, has been selected for a fellowship to the American Academy of Nursing.

Emergency Service Partners, LP, a physician-owned emergency medicine group practicing in Central Texas emergency departments, has pledged $250,000 to the Seton Nurse Scholarship Endowment in memory of the late Rick Gastelum.