Updated December 9, 2008
2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 and 2000: A Top 100 Heart Hospital
For each of these years, Mission Hospital's heart program was named among the nation's top 100 in the "Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success" study made by Thomson Healthcare (formerly Solucient), a provider of comprehensive health care information. The Cardiovascular 100 Top Hospitals® award recognizes hospitals that have set national clinical and management benchmarks for full-service cardiovascular programs during a single year.
In 2006 and 2007 Mission was the only hospital in North or South Carolina to receive the designation.
This was the 7th time that Mission has received this recognition ...and the 6th year in a row.
According to Thomson, if all acute care heart hospitals in the nation performed at the same level as Mission and the other top 100 heart hospitals, more than 7,000 lives would be saved, and nearly 750 medical complications avoided each year.
2007 & 2008: Stroke Silver Performance Achievement Award
The Stroke Program of Mission Hospital was recognized in the recent annual "best hospitals" edition of U.S.News & World Report for making sure that our stroke patients consistently get the treatment and care proven to give them the best possible chance of survival and recovery.
Mission is named as one of the hospitals in the nation which has received a Silver Performance Achievement Award from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for meeting criteria set by their joint "Get With The Guidelines" program. To achieve the silver award, hospitals must meet the specified guidelines at least 85 percent of the time for 12 months in a row.
Spring 2008 AACN Beacon Award
Mission's Cardiovascular Critical Care and Recovery Units received the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. The Beacon Award is given twice yearly for units that exhibit the highest quality standards in nurse recruitment and retention, patient outcomes, staff training, healthy work environments, leadership and evidence-based practice and research.
2008 Most Wired Hospital and Most Wireless Hospital
Mission Hospital was named both a "Most Wired" and "Most Wireless" hospitals in America according to results of the "2008 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study" released in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine, the journal of the American Hospital Association. The results are used to name the 100 Most Wired Hospitals and health systems, and focuses on how the nation's hospitals use information technologies for quality, customer service, public health and safety, business processes and workforce issues.
Great 100 Nurses
Since the inception of this peer recognition program, Mission has consistently won a disproportionately high number of honorees in Great 100 Nurses of North Carolina, 144 nurses in all. In 2008, nine Mission nurses were recognized, more than any other organization in the state.
2008: Advance for Nurses -- Mission's Emergency Department Single-Point-of-Discharge nursing team received the Best Nursing Team 2008 Award from Advance for Nurses, a southeast regional magazine. Recognized for their initiative, adaptability, teamwork, and recruitment and retention successes, this team of nine nurses works to address patients' needs in real time before they leave the Emergency Room. The team was featured in the cover story of the May 5, 2008 issue of Advance for Nurses.
2007: Top 50 Endocrinology Hospitals in the United States
Mission's Endocrinology Program was recognized in the July 2007 "best hospitals" edition of U.S.News & World Report as one of the top 50 in the nation. Mission's program was officially rated 46th nation wide based on several hard data measurement indicators such as good patient outcomes, as well as "reputational" ratings from experts around the nation. Ratings can be seen by going to usnews.com
2008, 2007: Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) awards three-star rating.
Mission's heart surgery program received the highest rating by the STS, for its level of quality. Approximately 15% of hospitals nationwide received the three-star rating, which is based on 2006 data.
2008: Named UnitedHealth Premium Cardiac Specialty Center for 2007 - 2009.
Mission is specifically cited by UnitedHealth for its cardiac rhythm management, such as implantation of pacemakers and implantable defibrillators; cardiac care, including emergency care and interventional services; and cardiac surgery.
2008: Mission Named Employer of the Year for North Carolina by Goodwill Industries.
2007: CMS top performer in the treatment of both acute myocardial infarction and pneumonia. Mission earned a $230,000 quality award for this designation from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare. In 2006 Mission received a $336,000 quality bonus from CMS for performance in both congestive heart failure and total joint replacement.
2007: Named by Business North Carolina magazine one of Top hospitals in the state.
Business North Carolina Magazine in 2007 named Mission as one of the top three hospitals in the state for overall clinical excellence, and one of the top hospitals in the state for orthopedics, heart and vascular.
2006: Ranked among Top 50 orthopedic hospitals by U.S.News & World Report magazine
Mission's Orthopedic Program was recognized in a July 2006 edition of the U.S. News & World Report "best hospitals" edition as one of the top rated programs in the nation. Mission's program was officially rated 35th in the nation based on several measurement indicators such as good patient outcomes, use of technology, nursing care, and trauma treatment. Ratings can be seen by going to http://www.usnews/usnews/home.htm.
2006 and 2005: Received Premier Quality Award for treatment of heart failure and acute myocardial infarction
The Premier awards for Quality are based on quality and cost data regularly submitted to Premier for reporting and benchmarking purposes. The Premier awards are distinguished by being based on performance-based criteria, including clinical quality outcomes, clinical process indicators and resource utilization outcomes. Mission was recognized for treatment of both congestive heart failure and acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) in 2006, and for treatment of heart failure in 2005.
2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005: Mission honored as a Consumer Choice Award hospital
Mission was selected as the only area recipient of the 2005 and 2006 Consumer Choice Award for hospitals. This award, sponsored by the National Research Corporation, identifies hospitals which healthcare consumers have chosen as having the highest quality and image in 180 markets throughout the United States. Winners are determined by consumer perceptions on multiple quality and image ratings.
2006: Mission earned the U.S. Health and Human Services Organ Donation medal of honor. This medal is awarded to hospitals that have achieved at least a 75% donation rate as part of the national organ donation initiative launched in 2003. The national average donation rate for all hospitals is 59%. Mission ranks among 371 hospital leaders in organ donation.
2008: Mission named a Red Apple hospital by NC Prevention Partners for successfully implementing healthy food guidelines. To qualify for this award, a hospital must actively improve access to healthy foods, use pricing to promote healthy foods, market healthy foods with icons, offer strategically placed nutrition labels and educate staff and visitors about nutrition. Additionally, they must use employee benefits and incentives to promote healthy behaviors among employees.
2004 & 2007: Cleverly Award: Mission and Blue Ridge Regional Hospital were both named 5-star hospitals by the State of the Industry 2007 by Cleverly & Associates. The ranking looks at hospital financial and operational management.
2005: BRRH was also named a State of the Hospital "Top 100 Community Value Hospital".
2005 and 2004: Named as a "Top 100 Hospital" by Solucient
In 2004, and again in 2005, Mission Hospital was selected as a Solucient Top 100 Hospitals for the preceding year, an award based on outstanding performance in four critical areas: clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, financial results and adaptation to environmental change. Only three other hospitals in North Carolina were named for 2003.
The Top 100 award is based on Solucient's annual National Benchmarks for Success study, which is based on analysis of data from more than 6,000 acute care general hospitals. Mission was listed in the Teaching Hospital category. Solucient is the nation's leading source of health care business information.
2005: National Birth Defects Education and Prevention Award
Mission's Fullerton Genetics Center was nationally honored for its Folic Acid Campaign by the National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN, a large network of programs and individuals working at the local, state, and national level in birth defects surveillance, research, and prevention. It is the only award given to an individual agency or program.
2004: Mission Laboratory ISO 9001 registered
Mission's Laboratory is ISO 9001 registered, effective September, 2004. This means that it meets standards for quality established by the International Organization for Standards. Its quality process measures have been adopted by over 100 countries throughout the world as their national quality standard.
The Mission Laboratory is the only hospital-based laboratory in the Southeast to have achieved ISO 9001 certification, and may be only the second one in the nation. Certification is good for three years, as long as the lab demonstrates continuous improvement and passes continuing internal and independent audits.
2004: Recognized by Commonwealth Fund
Mission Hospital was identified as one of the four top performing hospitals in the nation in a 2004 Commonwealth Fund study. Their study highlighted the practices at Mission that led to these high outcomes. These included Mission's formal commitment to quality; its use of data, performance panels and programs to achieve quality; its leadership structure and physician involvement; a corporate culture of excellence; caliber of staff, processes for care delivery and having the right tools for high performance. The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and quality.
2003: Ranked among Top 50 heart hospitals by U.S.News & World Report
Mission was ranked among the top 50 hospitals in the entire nation for heart and heart surgery services by U.S.News & World Report Magazine in its annual health care edition.
2003: Cited in Money Magazine
Mission and several of its physicians were listed in Money Magazine's top-rated and highest volume hospitals for 20 common medical treatments. The listing was based on HealthGrades rankings.
HealthGrades
Mission has received numerous high rankings from HealthGrades, but we are not permitted to mention them in any type of marketing because we do not have a contract to do so.
