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By Brian Zimmerman for Becker’s Hospital Review
Healthgrades named the 250 recipients of its 2018 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence Jan. 23.
Hospitals recognized with this award performed among the top 5 percent in the nation for at least 21 of 32 inpatient conditions and procedures analyzed by Healthgrades.
“Consumers should prioritize hospitals and health systems that achieve high marks in clinical quality,” said Healthgrades CMO Brad Bowman, MD. “We commend these organizations for their commitment to driving better patient outcomes and high quality care.”
Below is a state-by-state breakdown of the 250 hospitals awarded Healthgrades’ 2018 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence. For some hospitals, Healthgrades included more than one facility in its analysis. These facilities are denoted in italics below the recognized hospital.
Arizona
Banner Baywood Medical Center (Mesa)
Dignity Health-Chandler Regional Medical Center
Dignity Health-Mercy Gilbert Medical Center
Dignity Health-St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (Phoenix)
Flagstaff Medical Center
Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix)
California
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center-Summit (Oakland)
California Pacific Medical Center-Pacific Campus (San Francisco)
Including: California Pacific Medical Center-California Campus (San Francisco)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
Eden Medical Center (Castro Valley)
Hoag Hospital Newport Beach
John Muir Medical Center-Walnut Creek
Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center (Oakland)
Includes: Kaiser Permanente Richmond Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Anaheim Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center
Memorial Medical Center (Modesto)
Mercy San Juan Medical Center (Carmichael)
Methodist Hospital of Southern California (Arcadia)
Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame)
Includes: Mills Health Center (San Mateo)
Mission Hospital-Mission Viejo
Includes: Mission Hospital-Laguna Beach
Northridge Hospital Medical Center
PIH Health Hospital-Whittier
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center (Mission Hills)
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center (Burbank)
Providence Tarzana Medical Center
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles)
Scripps Green Hospital (La Jolla)
Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas
Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla
Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego
Includes: Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista
St. Jude Medical Center (Fullerton)
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Sutter Roseville Medical Center
UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica
UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus (San Francisco)
Includes: UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion (San Francisco)
Washington Hospital (Freemont)
Colorado
Denver Health Medical Center
Good Samaritan Medical Center (Lafayette)
Lutheran Medical Center (Wheat Ridge)
Porter Adventist Hospital (Denver)
Poudre Valley Hospital (Fort Collins)
Saint Joseph Hospital (Denver)
St. Anthony Hospital (Lakewood)
St. Anthony North Hospital (Westminster)
University of Colorado Hospital-Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion (Aurora)
Connecticut
Hartford Hospital
Middlesex Hospital (Middletown)
Norwalk Hospital
Saint Francis Care (Hartford)
The Hospital of Central Connecticut at New Britain
Includes: The Hospital of Central Connecticut at Bradley Memorial (Southington)
Yale-New Haven Hospital
Includes: Yale New Haven Hospital Saint Raphael Campus
Delaware
Christiana Care Health System-Christiana Hospital (Newark)
Includes: Wilmington Hospital
Florida
Cape Coral Hospital
Delray Medical Center (Delray Beach)
Flagler Hospital (St. Augustine)
Florida Hospital Orlando
Includes: Celebration Health, Florida Hospital-Altamonte, Florida Hospital-Apopka, Florida Hospital East Orlando, Florida Hospital Kissimmee and Winter Park Memorial Hospital
Lee Memorial Hospital (Fort Myers)
Includes: HealthPark Medical Center (Fort Myers)
Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville)
NCH Downtown Naples Hospital
Includes: NCH North Naples Hospital
Orange Park Medical Center
Georgia
Athens Regional Medical Center
Emory University Hospital (Atlanta)
Emory University Hospital Midtown (Atlanta)
Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital (Atlanta)
Northeast Georgia Medical Center (Gainesville)
Piedmont Fayette Hospital (Fayetteville)
Idaho
St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center
Includes: St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center
St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center (Twin Falls)
Illinois
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital (Downers Grove)
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge)
AMITA Health Alexian Brothers Medical Center Elk Grove Village
Carle Foundation Hospital (Urbana)
Evanston Hospital
Includes: Glenbrook Hospital (Glenview), Highland Park Hospital
Northwest Community Hospital (Arlington Heights)
Palos Community Hospital (Palos Heights)
Presence Resurrection Medical Center (Chicago)
Riverside Medical Center (Kankakee)
AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center Hoffman Estates
Indiana
Franciscan Health Indianapolis
Franciscan Health Lafayette East
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital (Muncie)
Iowa
Great River Medical Center (West Burlington)
Mercy Iowa City
St. Luke’s Hospital (Cedar Rapids)
UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital (Waterloo)
Kansas
Providence Medical Center (Kansas City)
Stormont Vail Health (Topeka)
The University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City)
Via Christi Hospital St. Francis (Wichita)
Louisiana
East Jefferson General Hospital (Metairie)
Ochsner Medical Center (New Orleans)
Includes: Ochsner Health Center-Elmwood (New Orleans and Ochsner Medical Center-West Bank Campus (Terrytown)
Maryland
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Holy Cross Hospital (Silver Springs)
Howard County General Hospital (Columbia)
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (Baltimore)
MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center (Baltimore)
MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital (Baltimore)
Peninsula Regional Medical Center (Salisbury)
The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center (Towson)
Massachusetts
Baystate Medical Center (Springfield)
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (Burlington)
Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford
Includes: Melrose-Wakefield Hospital
MetroWest Medical Center-Framingham Union Hospital
Includes: Leonard Morse Hospital (Natick)
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Saint Vincent Hospital (Worcester)
Southcoast Hospitals Group-Charlton Memorial (Fall River)
Includes: Southcoast Hospitals Group-St. Luke’s (New Bedford) and Southcoast Hospitals Group-Tobey (Wareham)
UMass Memorial Medical Center (Worcester)
Including: UMass Memorial Medical Center-Hahnemann (Worcester) and UMass Memorial Medical Center-Memorial Campus (Worcester)
Michigan
Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak Campus
Beaumont Hospital-Troy Campus
Henry Ford Allegiance Health (Jackson)
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital (Clinton Township)
Holland Hospital
Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor)
Providence-Providence Park Hospital, Southfield Campus
Includes: Providence-Providence Park Hospital, Novi
Spectrum Health Medical Center-Butterworth Hospital (Grand Rapids)
Includes: Spectrum Health-Blodgett Hospital (Grand Rapids)
St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor (Ypsilanti)
Minnesota
Abbott Northwestern Hospital (Minneapolis)
AllinaHealth-Mercy Hospital (Coon Rapids)
AllinaHealth-Unity Hospital (Fridley)
Fairview Ridges Hospital (Burnsville)
Fairview Southdale Hospital (Edina)
HealthEast Care System-Saint John’s Hospital (Maplewood)
Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato
Mayo Clinic Hospital-Saint Mary’s Campus (Rochester)
Includes: Mayo Clinic Methodist Hospital (Rochester)
Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital (St. Louis Park)
Regions Hospital (St. Paul)
St. Cloud Hospital
Missouri
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Mercy Hospital St. Louis
Mosaic Life Care (St. Joseph)
Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
Nebraska
Faith Regional Health Services-West (Norfolk)
Includes: Faith Regional Health Services-East (Norfolk)
New Jersey
AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center-Atlantic City
Includes: AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center-Mainland (Pomona)
Morristown Medical Center
Overlook Medical Center (Summit)
New Mexico
Presbyterian Hospital (Albuquerque)
New York
John T. Mather Memorial Hospital (Port Jefferson)
Lenox Hill Hospital (New York City)
NYU Winthrop Hospital (Mineola)
Rochester General Hospital
Stony Brook University Hospital
Vassar Brothers Medical Center (Poughkeepsie)
North Carolina
Alamance Regional Medical Center (Burlington)
Carolinas Medical Center-Mercy (Charlotte)
Duke Regional Hospital (Durham)
Mission Health (Asheville)
Novant Health Matthews Medical Center
Pardee UNC Healthcare (Hendersonville)
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital (Greensboro)
Includes: Annie Penn Hospital (Reidsville), Cone Health-Women’s Hospital (Greensboro) and Wesley Long Hospital (Greensboro)
Vidant Medical Center (Greenville)
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston Salem)
Includes: Davie Medical Center (Bermuda Run) and Davie Medical Center-Mocksville
Ohio
Atrium Medical Center (Middletown)
Bethesda North Hospital (Cincinnati)
Blanchard Valley Hospital (Findlay)
Christ Hospital (Cincinnati)
Cleveland Clinic
Fort Hamilton Hughes Memorial Hospital
Good Samaritan Hospital (Dayton)
Mercy Health-Fairfield Hospital
Mercy Health-West Hospital (Cincinnati)
Miami Valley Hospital (Dayton)
Mount Carmel St. Ann’s (Westerville)
ProMedica Flower Hospital (Sylvania)
ProMedica Toledo Hospital
Southwest General Health Center (Middleburg Heights)
Summa Akron City Hospital
The Jewish Hospital (Cincinnati)
University Hospitals Case Medical Center (Cleveland)
University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center
University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center (Chardon)
West Chester Hospital
Oklahoma
Saint Francis Hospital (Tulsa)
Oregon
Adventist Medical Center (Portland)
Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center (Clackamas)
Providence Portland Medical Center
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center (Portland)
Salem Hospital
Pennsylvania
Aria-Jefferson Health-Torresdale (Philadelphia)
Includes: Aria-Jefferson Health-Bucks County (Langhorne and Aria-Jefferson Health-Frankford (Philadelphia)
Bryn Mawr Hospital
Chambersburg Hospital
Chester County Hospital (West Chester)
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center (Wilkes Barre)
Jeanes Hospital (Philadelphia)
Lancaster General Hospital
Lankenau Medical Center (Wynnewood)
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Paoli Hospital
PinnacleHealth Harrisburg Hospital
Includes: PinnacleHealth Community General Osteopathic Hospital (Harrisburg)
Reading Hospital (West Reading)
Riddle Memorial Hospital (Media)
St. Luke’s Hospital-Bethlehem Campus
Includes: St. Luke’s Hospital-Allentown Campus
Temple University Hospital (Philadelphia)
Includes: Temple University Hospital-Episcopal (Philadelphia)
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital-Jefferson Health (Philadelphia)
Includes: Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience-Jefferson Health (Philadelphia) and Methodist Hospital-Jefferson Health (Philadelphia)
UPMC McKeesport
Rhode Island
Miriam Hospital (Providence)
Rhode Island Hospital (Providence)
South Carolina
Bon Secours St. Francis Health System-St. Francis Downtown (Greenville)
McLeod Health-McLeod Regional Medical Center (Florence)
Roper Hospital (Charleston)
South Dakota
Sanford USD Medical Center (Sioux Falls)
Tennessee
Indian Path Medical Center (Kingsport)
Texas
Houston Methodist Hospital
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (Houston)
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System-Southwest (Houston)
Includes: Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital (Houston), Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital (Houston) and Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital (Shenandoah)
Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center (Houston)
St. David’s Medical Center (Austin)
Includes: Heart Hospital of Austin and St. David’s Georgetown Hospital
Utah
University of Utah Health Care (Salt Lake City)
Includes: University Orthopaedic Center (Salt Lake City)
Vermont
University of Vermont Medical Center (Burlington)
Virginia
Augusta Health (Fishersville)
Bon Secours-Mary Immaculate Hospital (Newport News)
Bon Secours-Memorial Regional Medical Center (Mechanicsville)
Bon Secours-St. Francis Medical Center (Midlothian)
Carilion New River Valley Medical Center (Christiansburg)
Henrico Doctors’ Hospital (Richmond)
Includes: Parham Doctors’ Hospital (Richmond) and Retreat Doctors’ Hospital (Richmond)
Inova Alexandria Hospital
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital (Fairfax)
Inova Fairfax Hospital (Falls Church)
Inova Loudoun Hospital (Leesburg)
Sentara Leigh Hospital (Norfolk)
Sentara Obici Hospital (Suffolk)
Sentara Princess Anne Hospital (Virginia Beach)
Sentara RMH Medical Center (Harrisonburg)
Washington
EvergreenHealth Medical Center-Kirkland
Harborview Medical Center (Seattle)
Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center (Vancouver)
Swedish Medical Center-First Hill Campus (Seattle)
Includes: Swedish Medical Center-Ballard Campus (Seattle)
Valley Medical Center (Renton)
Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle)
West Virginia
CAMC General Hospital (Charleston)
Includes: CAMC Memorial Hospital (Charleston) and CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital (Charleston)
Thomas Memorial Hospital (South Charleston)
Wisconsin
Aurora Saint Luke’s Medical Center (Milwaukee)
Including: Aurora Sinai Medical Center (Milwaukee) and Saint Luke’s Medical Center (Cudahy)
Columbia Saint Mary’s Hospital Milwaukee
Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Ozaukee (Mequon)
Froedtert Community Memorial Hospital (Menomonee Falls)
Froedtert Health-Froedtert Hospital (Milwaukee)
Meriter Hospital (Madison)
St. Agnes Hospital (Fond Du Lac)
St. Mary’s Hospital (Madison)
Waukesha Memorial Hospital