Key Accomplishments
Magnet Award for Excellence in Nursing
St. Luke's Hospital was designated a Magnet nursing facility by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) in Fall 2009, becoming the first and only hospital in Cedar Rapids, and just the sixth in Iowa to receive the Magnet award. Magnet designation is awarded to hospitals that meet rigorous national and international standards for nursing care and professional performance. Of the nearly 6,000 hospitals in the United States, less than five percent have achieved Magnet recognition.
CARF Accreditation
St. Luke's is the first rehabilitation program in Iowa to receive the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) Inpatient Rehabilitation Stroke Specialty Program accreditation. In addition, St. Luke's Brain Injury Program also received accreditation and St. Luke's Inpatient Rehabilitation unit received a three-year accreditation - the twelfth consecutive three-year accreditation for the unit.
Top 100 Hospital - A three-time winner, St. Luke’s has been rated as one of the nation’s Top 100 Hospitals by Thomson Reuters, the nation’s leader in healthcare information. The award evaluates nearly 3,000 hospitals and recognizes the top 100 that have achieved excellence in patient outcomes, patient safety, treatment standards, patient satisfaction, efficiency and financial stability. St. Luke’s is one of only two hospitals in Iowa to receive this honor.
Overall Hospital:
Chest Pain Accreditation - St. Luke's received Chest Pain Center Accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC), an international organization dedicated to eliminating heart disease as the number one cause of death worldwide.To become an Accredited Chest Pain Center, St. Luke's engaged in rigorous evaluation by SCPC for its ability to assess, diagnose, and treat patients who may be experiencing a heart attack.
IRPE Award - St. Luke's received a silver Iowa Recognition for Performance Excellence (IRPE) award in 2009, which recognizes organizations that have completed a strenuous review and evaluation of their leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, measurement, analysis and knowledge management, human resource focus, process management and results. This is the third consecutive year St. Luke's earned this designation.
Press Ganey Success Story - St. Luke's Hospital was selected by Press Ganey, a national patient and physician satisfaction survey company, to receive its Success Story Award for 2007. Only six hospitals across the country receive this recognition.
Most Wired - St. Luke's Hospital and the Iowa Health System were named among the nation's Most Wired hospitals. The Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study measures the nation's hospitals on their use of information technologies to improve quality, customer service, public health and safety, business processes and workforce issues since 1999. St. Luke's has held this award four consecutive years.
Best Hospital in the Corridor - St. Luke's Hospital was voted Best Hospital in the Corridor in a recent Corridor Business Journal survey.
2009 Best of Business Award - Business services category - Iowa Health System received this award which recognizes the best of small businesses throughout the country. Using consumer feedback and other research, the SBCA identifies companies that have demonstrated what makes small businesses a vital part of the American economy.
People's Choice Award
Each year, the National Research Corporation (NRC) publicly recognizes the nation's top hospitals with their prestigious Consumer Choice Award. For five consecutive years, St. Luke's was identified as a hospital that "healthcare consumers have chosen as having the highest quality and image."
Nursing:
Beacon Award - The Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence is an award given by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and specifically designated to recognize the nation's top hospital critical care units. Critical care units that receive the Beacon Award will have exhibited high quality standards, exceptional care of patients and their families and healthy work environments.
Heart & Stroke:
Top 100 Heart Hospital - St. Luke's Hospital was named one of the nation's Top 100 Heart Hospitals in 2004, 2007 and 2008. This means heart patients at St. Luke's have fewer complications, better outcomes and higher survival rates.
Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care - St. Luke's was selected by Blue Cross Blue Shield for demonstrating a commitment to quality care, resulting in better overall outcomes for cardiac patients.
Get With the Guidelines Award - In 2010, St. Luke's has received the Get With The Guidelines - Heart Failure Gold Performance Achievement Award from the American Heart Association and the Get With the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Performance Achievement Award from the American Stroke Association.
Top Heart Hospital - American College of Cardiology Gold Performance Achievement Award - St. Luke's received the American College of Cardiology Foundation's NCDR ACTION Registry-GWTG Gold Performance Achievement Award for 2009 - one of only 121 hospitals nationwide to do so.
Rehabilitation, Joints & Hip:
Premium Total Joint Specialty Center - St. Luke's Hospital is proud to be selected as a UnitedHealth Premium Total Joint Specialty Center. UnitedHealthCare evaluated our associates, services and procedures using specific quality criteria and guidelines based on nationally recognized standards and expert advice.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
Certification is awarded by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), which evaluates and accredits nearly 17,000 health-care organizations and programs in the United States. St. Luke's met all of the standards in all areas of evaluation. JCAHO has also accredited St. Luke's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Home Health.
St. Luke's has earned the Gold Seal of Approval for Disease-Specific Care Certification from The Joint Commission for its heart failure, and hip and knee replacement programs. St. Luke's has also been recertified as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission.
Birth Care:
Family Centered Care
St. Luke's Women's and Children's Center is the first birth care center in the nation to receive the national award for outstanding Family Centered Maternity Care. Family Centered Maternity Care is an approach to providing care for women and their families that integrates pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and infant care into the continuum of the family life as normal, healthy life events.
First NICU Family Support Site in Iowa
The March of Dimes has selected St. Luke's NICU as Iowa's first and only site to house a new program called March of Dimes NICU Family Support. The project's purpose is to provide information and emotional support to families of critically ill newborns being cared for in a neonatal intensive care unit.
Other Accreditations
