Awards

Always Out in Front with the Best Care
With six major facilities and more than 7,300 employees, including associates from St. Elizabeth Physicians, St. Elizabeth Healthcare is not only the largest healthcare provider in Northern Kentucky, but also continually recognized as one of the nation’s best. Time and again, our organization has been lauded for exceptional care by an array of respected sources. These awards and accolades only help to show that St. Elizabeth Healthcare and our community really are better together.

HealthGrades cited St. Elizabeth as a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence and was ranked among the top 5% nationally for clinical excellence for the tenth year in a row (2003 – 2012). We were also named one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals by HealthGrades (2007 - 2012) six years in a row with key distinctions coming in the areas of cardiology, orthopaedics, stroke treatment, pulmonary services, gastrointestinal care, critical care, emergency medicine and women’s health services.  Best in Greater Cincinnati awards for 2011 were given for overall cardiac services, cardiac surgery, joint replacement and spine surgery.

St. Elizabeth was named a “100 Top Hospital” by Thomson Reuters (1998, 2007 - 2011) six times including five years in a row.

St. Elizabeth was also the first in Greater Cincinnati to achieve Magnet ™ designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) in 2006 and was re-designated in 2010 (St. Elizabeth Covington, Edgewood, Grant).

St. Elizabeth has been voted a “Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati” by the Cincinnati Business Courier three times (2005, 2007, 2008) and has been a finalist two times (2006, 2009).  St. Elizabeth was also inducted into the Business Courier’s Hall of Fame category in 2008.

Awards & Recognitions

• Top 5% in the Nation for Emergency Medicine (St. Elizabeth Edgewood) -
  HealthGrades, '10, '11, '12
  
• America’s 50 Best Hospitals (St. Elizabeth Edgewood) – HealthGrades, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09,‘10, '11, '12
  
• 100 Top Hospital (St. Elizabeth Covington, Edgewood and Grant) – Thomson Reuters ‘98,‘07, ‘08, ‘09,‘10 , '11
  
• Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence – HealthGrades, 2003 to 2011 at St. Elizabeth Edgewood
  
• Region’s first Magnet™ Hospital 2006; Re-designated 2010 - ANCC (at St. Elizabeth Edgewood, Covington, and Grant)
  
• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence® re-designation 2009 - 2012
• Premium Specialty Center for Total Joint Replacement & Spine Surgery – United Healthcare ‘10
  
• America’s Best Hospitals for Respiratory Care - U.S. News & World Report ‘09
  
• Greater Cincinnati’s Best Place to Work - Cincinnati Business Courier
  Winner - 2005, 2007, 2008
  Finalist - 2006, 2009
  Hall of Fame Inductee - 2008
  
• Patient Safety Excellence Award – HealthGrades,‘09
  
• Top 50 U.S. hospitals for endocrinology - U.S. News & World Report ‘07
  
• Accreditation with commendation for Cancer Care at St. Elizabeth Edgewood & Ft. Thomas - Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons (ACOS) '10
  
• Primary Stroke Certification, Gold Seal of Approval™ for stroke care ’06; Re-designated ’10- Joint Commission
  
• Top 3.4 percent of U.S. hospitals for physician satisfaction ‘07
  
• Cardiac Center for Excellence - United Healthcare ‘05
  
• Hospital Quality Improvement Excellence Award – Health Care Excel ‘05
  
• One of best U.S. respiratory, neurology & neurosurgery hospitals - U.S. News & World Report ’04

Key HealthGrades Distinctions

Best in Greater Cincinnati
• Overall orthopaedics, ’09,’10, '12
• Overall cardiac services and cardiology, ’09,’10, '11
• Cardiac Surgery, '11
• Joint replacement and spine surgery, ’09,’10, '11 

Cardiology
• No. 1 in state for cardiology ‘10
• Highest rating for treatment of heart attack and heart failure, 2003-2010

Critical Care
• Critical Care Excellence Award, '11
• No. 1 in state for overall critical care, ‘10
• Top 5 percent nationally for critical care, '12
• Top 10 percent nationally for critical care, ’09,’10, '11

Gastrointestinal
• No. 1 in state for gastrointestinal services and medical treatment, ‘10, '12
• Top 5 percent nationally for overall gastrointestinal services, ‘10

Orthopaedics
• No. 1 in state for overall orthopaedic services, joint replacement and spine surgery, ‘10, '12
• Top 5 percent nationally for overall orthopaedic services, ’07,’08,’09,’10, '12

Pulmonary
• Pulmonary Care Excellence Award, '11
• No. 1 in Kentucky for overall pulmonary services, ‘10, '11
• Top 5 percent nationally for overall pulmonary services, 2004-2011

Spine
• Spine Surgery Excellence Award, ’09, ‘10, '11
• No. 1 in Kentucky for spine surgery, '11
• Top 10 percent nationally for spine surgery, ’09, ‘10, '11, '12

Stroke
• Stroke Care Excellence Award, '11
• No. 1 in Kentucky for treatment of stroke, '11
• Top 10 percent nationally for stroke treatment, ‘10, '11

Women’s
• Women’s Health Excellence Award ’09, ‘10, '11
• Top 5 percent nationally for women's health, '11, '12
• Five Star Rated in Women’s Health ‘10