Recent Awards & Recognition
VHA Pennsylvania awarded PinnacleHealth its Achieving Performance Excellence Award (APEX). The APEX award recognizes extraordinary achievement of clinical quality and patient safety by VHA members. VHA is a national network of not-for-profit health care organizations that work together reduce costs, improve clinical performance, and implement best practices.
PinnacleHealth has received the
Get With The Guidelines℠– Heart Failure (GWTG–Heart Failure) Gold Performance Achievement Award from the American Heart Association for the third year in a row. The recognition signifies that PinnacleHealth has reached an aggressive goal of treating heart failure patients with 85% compliance for at least 24 months to core standard levels of care as outlined by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology secondary prevention guidelines for heart failure patients
PinnacleHealth Breast Care Center Receives National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC). NAPBC is a national coalition of professional healthcare organizations dedicated to the highest quality of care for women and men diagnosed with diseases of the breast. The NAPBC promotes a holistic approach to treatment for patients diagnosed with diseases of the breast, and provides a framework for a continuum of care that meets the needs of the whole person and not just the disease.
Centers that seek NAPBC accreditation must complete a comprehensive on-line application and an on-site inspection by an NAPBC surveyor who verifies the availability of 17 components of care, and validates compliance with 27 evidence-based standards of care required to achieve NAPBC accreditation. To maintain accreditation the center is required to document ongoing compliance with the standards on an annual basis and undergo an on-site inspection every three years. To learn more about the NAPBC, visit the NAPBC website at http://www.accreditedbreastcenters.org.
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PinnacleHealth’s Harrisburg Hospital is the first hospital in Central Pennsylvania to be recognized as an
Accredited Chest Pain Center by the Society of Chest Pain Centers.
Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success Winner - two consecutive years. This prestigious award honors hospitals that have led the way with superior performance in cardiovascular service in four key areas: outcomes of care, service-line efficiency, financial performance and core measures alignment.
Primary Stroke Center Certification
The
Joint Commission’s Primary Stroke Center Certification is based on the recommendations for primary stroke centers published by the Brain Attack Coalition and the American Stroke Association’s statements/guidelines for stroke care.
Center of Excellence in Diabetes Care
We are proud to say that PinnacleHealth is the only hospital in the whole state of Pennsylvania to get the
Gold Seal of Approval® from the Joint Commission (JCAHO) for improving care of diabetic patients in the Hospital. We are among 20 Hospitals across the country to get this recognition. This demonstrates our commitment to excellence in providing disease specific care.
This distinguished annual program, and the recognition that goes with it, is the result of months of research conducted through telephone surveys. PinnacleHealth received the Who's Who '10 Award in the categories of Hospital (Harrisburg Hospital) and leading Birth Center (Harrisburg Campus Birth Center).
US News and World Report's 18th annual America's Best Hospitals
PinnacleHealth was one of 173 hospitals ranked in
US News and World Report's 18th annual America's Best Hospitals. Specifically, we were ranked #40 for neurology and neurosurgery and #44 for orthopedics. More than 5,000 hospitals were evaluated in this national news magazine. After meeting certain discharge criteria, hospitals were scored according to reputation, mortality rate and other care-related factors such as nursing and advanced services.
This prestigious distinction recognizes excellence in nursing care. Pinnacle Health is only the seventeenth Magnet Hospital in Pennsylvania and one of only 370 in the nation.
Magnet status requires achievement of 60 standards focused on empirical outcomes within 5 domains such as Exemplary Professional Practice and New Knowledge, Innovation, and Improvements.
Named one of the
"Best Places to Work in PA" by employees for eight consecutive years, 2003-2010.
PinnacleHealth Laboratory Services are capAccreddited. The College of American Pathologists is the world’s largest association comprised exclusively of pathologists. It is an organization concerned about patients and about providing the highest quality of patient care. The College stands firm in those beliefs and has developed CAP Public Statements on a variety of health issues related to pathology.
The
American Association for Retired Persons recognized PinnacleHealth and 49 other businesses as the nation's top employers for workers over 50.
This is the fifth year that PinnacleHealth has made AARP's annual survey and was ranked 22 on this year's list. The list was developed 10 years ago and honors businesses and organizations that have implemented new and innovative policies and best practices in talent management.