Fortune Magazine’s Most Admired Company
HMA was honored in 2007 by being recognized as Fortune Magazine’s Most Admired Hospital Company in the Health Care: Medical Facilities category. The Most Admired list is the definitive report card on corporate reputations, and HMA was chosen as the best by a survey of 10,000 executives, directors and analysts.
Hospital Accolades
In February 2007, HMA's 105-bed Lake Norman Regional Medical Center, located in Mooresville, North Carolina achieved Magnet designation for excellence in nursing services by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program. The Magnet Recognition Program recognizes health care organizations that demonstrate excellence in nursing practice and adherence to national standards for the organization and delivery of nursing services. Applicants undergo a rigorous evaluation that includes extensive interviews and reviews of nursing services.
Research shows there are clear benefits to hospitals that are awarded Magnet status and to the communities they serve:
- Healthcare consumers have more confidence in the overall quality of a hospital if it has achieved the level of excellence established by the Magnet Recognition Program.
- Magnet designated facilities consistently outperform other facilities in recruiting and retaining nurses resulting in greater stability in patient care and patient satisfaction
- The high quality nursing, in turn, attracts high caliber physicians and specialists which benefits our entire facility and community
Recognized in 2007 for exemplary patient outcomes, patient safety, efficiency and quality, Toppenish Community Hospital, located in Toppenish, Washington, was named to the Thomson 100 Top Hospitals®: NationalBenchmarks for Success List. The award honors hospitals that consistently perform well — achieving the highest national scores (benchmarks) on a set of measures that represent hospital-wide performance. The typical 100 Top Hospitals award winner produces solid patient outcomes, has good patient safety, and provides efficient care at a reasonable cost, compared with other hospitals like it across the country. Top 100 Hospitals are well-managed and have growing numbers of people seeking care in its inpatient, emergency, ambulatory surgery, and outpatient areas.
More HMA hospitals were recognized by Thomson Heallthcare in 2007 as Brooksville Regional Hospital, located in Brooksville, Florida, Spring Hill Regional Hospital, located in Spring Hill, Florida and Walton Regional Medical Center, located in Monroe, Georgia were named among the nation's 100 Top Performance Improvement Leader Hospitals. This award recognizes the boards, executive management teams and medical staff whose leadership has “achieved the fastest five-year rate of consistent annual organization-wide improvement in the healthcare industry.” According to Thomson Healthcare, “hospitals that win this award have leaders who are poised to succeed in today’s healthcare market…where educated consumers place a premium on hospitals that provide value to their communities.”
In 2006, three HMA hospitals were awarded the Gold Seal of Approval from Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, which is the nation’s largest and oldest standards setting and accrediting body in health care. HMA hospitals earning this distinction in 2006 were:
- Lake Norman Regional Medical Center and the Lake Norman Home Health Agency in Mooresville, North Carolina
- Lehigh Regional Medical Center in Lehigh Acres, Florida and
- Rankin Medical Center in Brandon, Mississippi.
The Lehigh Acres and Brandon hospitals were first-time recipients of the award. Contributing to the success of these hospitals were substantial investments in facility renovations, advanced medical equipment and proprietary information systems, which HMA made following the acquisition of these facilities.
- The laboratory at Highlands Regional Medical Center in Sebring, Florida, received two commendations for superiority in standards and practices; one each by the College of American Pathologists and the American Association of Blood Banks.
- Midwest Regional Medical Center, a 255-bed hospital in Midwest City, Oklahoma, was awarded the “2006 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™” by HealthGrades®, the nation’s leading independent health care ratings company. It was the only hospital in the Oklahoma City metro area that was ranked among the top 5% in the nation in terms of mortality rates and complication rates for 26 procedures and diagnoses.
- Pasco Regional Medical Center, a 120-bed hospital in Dade City, Florida, was ranked among the top 5% of all hospitals in the nation for general surgery by HealthGrades®.
- Peace River Regional Medical Center, a 212-bed hospital in Port Charlotte, Florida, garnered a number of awards in 2006, including the HealthGrades® Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ for the second consecutive year (less than 3% of the nation’s approximate 5,000 hospitals earned this award two years in a row); a 5-Star rating for clinical excellence in maternity care from HealthGrades®; and a Primary Stroke Center Certification from Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration. It also received a certificate of need to build a 7-bed neonatal unit to accommodate the growing number of births at this hospital, which now exceeds 100 a month.
- Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center’s Cancer Treatment Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, was awarded a three-year national accreditation from The Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons.
- Riley Hospital’s Rehabilitation Center, a 20-bed, Medicare certified in-patient rehabilitation facility in Meridian, Mississippi, received a three year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilitations.
- Santa Rosa Medical Center in Milton, Florida, conducts a diabetes education program that was awarded recognition through 2009 by the American Diabetes Association.
- Sebastian River Medical Center, a 129-bed hospital in Sebastian, Florida, was named one of the nation’s top 100 hospitals by Solucient, Inc., the nation’s leading source of health care information products.
- Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center, a 128-bed hospital in Crystal River, Florida, was ranked among the top 10% of hospitals nationwide for treatment of coronary artery disease, heart failure, and stroke by the American Heart and Stroke Associations.
- Summit Medical Center, a 103-bed hospital in Van Buren, Arkansas, received its third annual award from the State of Arkansas for performance improvement measures related to pneumonia, congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction and surgical infection prevention. It is just one of two hospitals in the state to receive this award for three years running.
- Venice Regional Medical Center, a 312-bed hospital in Venice, Florida, was ranked among the top 10% of hospitals nationwide for clinical excellence in general surgery by HealthGrades®.