Awards

Baptist Memorial Health Care

• Three Baptist Memorial Health Care entities won Commercial Appeal Memphis Most awards: Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis won "Best Hospital," Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women won "Best Women's Hospital" and Stern Cardiovascular Foundation won for "Best Heart Clinic."
• Modern Healthcare Magazine named Baptist Memorial Health Care one of the top 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare.

Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto

• HealthGrades ranked Baptist DeSoto No. 1 in Mississippi for cardiology services.

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis

• HealthGrades, a national, independent health care ratings company, ranked Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in the top 5 percent nationally for emergency medicine and cardiac surgery and in the top 10 percent in the nation for overall cardiac services, stroke treatment, pulmonary services, prostatectomy, GI medical treatment and critical care.

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis

• Baptist Memphis earned the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence Award™, putting it among the top 5 percent of hospitals in the nation for overall quality, for the 4th year in a row.
• HealthGrades, a national, independent health care ratings company, ranked Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in the top 5 percent nationally for emergency medicine and cardiac surgery and in the top 10 percent in the nation for overall cardiac services, stroke treatment, pulmonary services, prostatectomy, GI medical treatment and critical care.

Baptist Memorial Health Care

• Baptist Memorial Health Care was named one of the 10 Largest Non-Catholic Religious Health Care Systems in Modern Healthcare’s 34th Annual Hospital Systems Survey.
• The American Association of Respiratory Care named Baptist Home Medical a Quality Respiratory Care Provider.
• Baptist Trinity Home Care & Hospice was named among the 2009 HomeCare Elite™, a compilation of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States.

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis

• For the 15th year in a row, Baptist Memphis won a Consumer Choice Award because a majority of Memphis-area residents named the facility as their hospital of choice in a national survey.
• Earned the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence Award™, putting it among the top 5 percent of hospitals in the nation for overall quality.
• HealthGrades ranked Baptist Memphis’ women’s care among the top 5 percent in the nation.
• VHA recognized Baptist Memphis as the nation’s leading performer in glucose control. Baptist Memphis is the first of VHA’s 1,400 member hospitals to be used as a blueprint for glucose control and will participate in a clinical education series for other hospitals to learn about its control techniques.

Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto

• Baptist DeSoto won the Mississippi Nurses Association’s Hospital of the Year Award (100 beds or more).

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle

• U.S. News and World Report named the non-residential transitional care unit at Baptist Golden Triangle as one of the country’s best nursing homes.
• Won East Mississippi Community College’s Workforce Services Best Practices Award for its workforce training, quality management and business practices.

Baptist Memorial Health Care

• From 2002-2009, Verispan named Baptist one of the Top 100 Integrated Health Care Networks.
• The Baptist Women’s Health Center was recognized as an American College of Radiology-accredited center of excellence in mammograms.
• Baptist Memorial Health Care was the highest ranking Mid-South health care organization on SDI’s list of the Top 100 Integrated Health Networks. Baptist was ranked 39 on the list, which was published in Modern Healthcare Magazine.

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis

• For the 14th time in a row, Baptist Memphis won a Consumer Choice award because a majority of Memphis-area residents named the facility as their hospital of choice in a national survey.
• According to the 2009 Leapfrog Hospital Survey, Baptist Memphis was among the Memphis-area hospitals that led the nation in certain areas of quality and was recognized for heart bypass, aortic valve replacement, pancreatic resection and esophageal resection.
• Earned the second consectutive HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence Award™, putting it among the top 5 percent of hospitals in the nation for overall quality.

Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto

• The Baptist DeSoto inpatient rehabilitation program ranked in the top 1 percent in the nation for quality in a report based on 2009 performance outcomes.
• According to the 2009 Leapfrog Hospital Survey, Baptist DeSoto was among the Memphis-area hospitals that led the nation in certain areas of quality and received recognition in heart bypass.