Awards and Accreditations
Excellence is Easy to Recognize
By consistently meeting and exceeding patient expectations, St. Luke’s has been honored with several significant awards reflecting excellence in care. Each of these awards was made possible through the skills and dedication of our employees, medical staff and volunteers. They are the reason so many people turn to St. Luke’s for a healing touch, a comforting hand, and a lifelong commitment to caring.
100 Top Hospitals National Benchmarks for Success - 2008
Thomson Healthcare named St. Luke’s Boise/Meridian a 100 Top Hospitals National Benchmarks for Success award winner in 2008, which means we rank well above the top 90 percent on hospital-wide performance when compared with 3,000 of our national peers (teaching hospitals). St. Luke’s Boise and Meridian are the only Idaho hospitals in the ranking, with determinations based solely on objective statistical analyses: patient outcomes, patient safety, national treatment standards, efficiency, and financial stability.
VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence - 2008
St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center earned the 2008 VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence based on clinical performance in the areas of surgical complications and infection prevention, ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), and bloodstream infections. This award honors organizations that have differentiated themselves around national performance standards by achieving exceptionally high levels of performance.
VHA Improvement Award for Operational Excellence - 2007
St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center was recognized as an Improvement Award Winner for Operational Excellence at the VHA Mountain States Leadership Conference in 2007. St. Luke's was honored for our "Optimizing Patient Flow for the Emergency Department" initiative, which was designed to reduce operational cycle times, bottlenecks, and delays; reduce support service turnaround times; maximize available capacity; exceed expectations; and improve quality of care and safety performance.
Magnet
Hospital
On February 1, 2006, St. Luke’s was re-designated by
the American Nurses Credentialing Center as southern Idaho's
only Magnet hospital. St. Luke’s shares this distinguished
award with some of the nation's finest hospitals, including
Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and Mayo-Rochester, Rochester,
Minnesota. The gold standard for nursing services, the Magnet
Award recognizes hospitals for nursing excellence and quality
patient care.
- Why is Magnet designation important to patients and their families?
- St. Luke's Receives Magnet Re-designation
Microsoft
Hospital of the Year - 2006
St. Luke’s efforts to continually use advances in technology
to provide the best possible care to patients have been honored
by the Microsoft Corporation and the Microsoft Healthcare
Users Group (MSHUG). St. Luke’s was named the top hospital
in the country for use of technology in health care.
The annual MSHUG awards recognize significant contributions
made by organizations and individuals to improve the quality
of patient care. More
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Idaho's
Consumer Choice
St. Luke’s has been recognized as one of the nation’s
top hospitals by the National Research Corporation (NRC)
for 2007/2008. The Consumer Choice Award honors hospitals
chosen by consumers as having the best overall quality, best
doctors and nurses, and the best image and reputation.
St. Luke’s has received this designation from NRC annually
since 2000.
American Society of Clinical
Oncology Award
St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute was recognized
by the American Society of Clinical Oncology for efforts
to improve the care of people with cancer through participation
in clinical trials. St. Luke's MSTI was one of only 12 community
oncology practices in the country to be honored in 2006.
Top
100 Hospital - National Benchmarks for Success - 2004
& 2005
St. Luke's has been listed as a Solucient 100 Top Hospitals
- National Benchmarks for Success facility. Solucient selects
hospitals that have achieved excellence in quality of care,
operational efficiency, financial performance, and adaptation
to the environment.
Top
100 Hospital - Cardiovascular
St. Luke's was listed as a Solucient 100 Top Cardiovascular
Hospital for 2004. Solucient selects hospitals based on excellence
in patient care, efficiency of operations and sustainability
of cardiovascular performance.
St. Luke’s was recognized by Avatar International Inc.
as a national award winner for health care service and quality
in 2004. Awards were presented for Exceeding Patient
Expectations and Exemplary Service - Overall
Best Performer, for 300- to 400-bed size. As an
Overall Best Performer, St. Luke’s aggregate score
made us one of the top ten hospitals in Avatar’s entire
database.
Idaho Chapter March of Dimes
Nurse of the Year -2006
St. Luke's Health System caregivers earned thirteen of the
twenty Idaho Chapter March of Dimes Nurse of the Year awards.
2004 VHA Mountain States Improvement
Award for Clinical Effectiveness
The 2004 VHA Mountain States Improvement Award for Clinical
Effectiveness was presented to St. Luke’s, as an organization
that successfully implemented improvement activities by engaging
leadership, physicians and health professionals to improve
clinical quality outcomes and patient satisfaction.
2005 VHA Award for Clinical
Excellence in Critical Care
St. Luke’s Critical Care Unit was honored to receive
the 2005 VHA Award for Clinical Excellence in Critical Care.
The VHA Award for Clinical Excellence honors organizations
that have distinguished themselves from other VHA members
by achieving national performance standards.
Blue Cross of Idaho Hospital
Quality Award – 2006 Award of Merit
St. Luke's received a 2006 Award of Merit from Blue Cross
of Idaho for safety and patient care. Blue Cross of Idaho's
Quality Incentive Program measures patient safety and the
quality of health care in hospitals, and associates payment
with good performance and outcomes.
St. Luke’s Medical Imaging Accreditation
St. Luke’s Medical Imaging Departments are accredited by the American College of Radiology (ACR) in CT, MRI, ultrasound, mammography, and nuclear medicine. ACR accreditation assures patients, referring physicians, and payers that St. Luke's Medical Imaging facilities have undergone a rigorous review process and meet nationally accepted standards of care.
St. Luke’s Chest Pain
Center Accreditation
St. Luke’s Chest Pain Centers, in Boise and Meridian,
have been granted the first accreditations in Idaho from
the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC), an international
professional society focused on improving care for patients
with acute coronary difficulties.
Children’s Hospital
Accreditation
The National Association of Children’s Hospitals and
Related Institutions has accredited St. Luke’s Children’s
Hospital on an annual basis since 1992.
