RECOGNITIONS

Medical Center of Plano:

• Recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center with the prestigious MAGNET hospital designation for excellence in nursing care.

• Received the Gallup Award for Healthcare Excellence.

Medical City of Dallas:

• Recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center with the prestigious MAGNET hospital designation for excellence in nursing care.
• Earned the 2006 Texas Award for Performance Excellence (TAPE), the state’s highest honor for quality and organizational performance
• Received the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility.  This award honors employers nationally and locally for the exemplary use of workplace flexibility to meet both business goals and employee needs.
• Listed in Texas Monthly as one of the “50 Best Companies to Work for in Texas”

• Denton Regional Medical Center
• Las Colinas Medical Center
• Medical Center of McKinney
• Medical Center of Plano
• Plaza Medical Center

Recognized by the Texas Medical Foundation’s Quality Awards:

• Las Colinas Medical Center
• Medical Center of McKinney
• Plaza Medical Center

Recognized by The Dallas Business Journal  as “Best Places to Work”:

• Denton Regional Medical Center
• Medical City of Dallas
• Medical Center of Plano
• Plaza Medical Center 
   

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Accredited Chest Pain Centers: 

• Denton Regional Medical Center
• Las Colinas Medical Center
• Medical Center of McKinney
• Medical Center of Plano (Cycle II with PCI)
• Medical City Dallas (Chest pain accredited ER
• North Hills Medical Center (First Cycle II Chest Pain Center in the U.S)
• Plaza Medical Center (Chest pain accredited ER)

Joint Commission certified programs:

• Medical Center of Plano (Primary Stroke certification and Disease-Specific Care certification for Acute Myocardial Infarction {heart attack} and Congestive Heart Failure)
• Plaza Medical Center (Joint Commission certified   AMI program and First Joint Commission Certified Joint-Replacement Program in Texas)
• Medical Center of McKinney (Joint Commission Advanced Primary Stroke Center)

Get With the Guidelines:

• Denton Regional Medical Center (American Heart Association’s Award for Cardiac and Stroke)
• Medical Center of Plano (Stroke Performance Achievement Award and American Heart Association’s Acute Myocardial Infarction certification)
• Medical Center of McKinney Triple Recognition (American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA) - one of only 25 hospitals across the United States participating in all three modules – Coronary Artery Disease, Stroke and Heart Failure
  * Gold Performance Award for Coronary Artery Disease
  * Silver Performance Award for Stroke
  * Bronze Performance Award for Heart Failure

Medical Center of Plano:

• Level III Trauma Center.
• UT Southwestern Transplant Services Center Leadership Circle Award
• Joint Commission National Quality Award
• Texas Department of Health Ten-Step Hospital
• Johnson & Johnson Best Place To Have a Baby

• Echocardiography Laboratory accreditation by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL)

Plaza Medical Center

• Recipient of US Health and Human Services Medal of Honor for Organ Donation
• Twice named Top 100 Heart Hospital by Solucient

Medical City of Dallas

• Heart Transplant Program, one of the busiest, most successful such programs in North Texas
• Only hospital in North Texas to offer adult and pediatric stem cell transplantation (FACT accredited)
• First hospital in the southwest United States to perform open heart bypass surgery using robotic technology.
• Hosted the first worldwide live Internet broadcast of a beating heart surgery with opportunities for audience participation.

Medical City Children’s Hospital

• National Center for Coordinating Pediatric Nephrology Studies.
• Only non-university affiliated hospital for the pediatric Oncology Group (studies on rare tumors).

Green Oaks Medical Center

• Commended by the Dallas Police Department
• Awarded Professional of the Year by NAMI Collin County 2007 and 2008

North Hills Medical Center

• Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery