Awards and Accomplishments

St. Joseph's was presented its third consecutive large-company Gold Award at the sixth annual 2008 Arkansas Governor's Work-Life Balance Awards ceremony. The ceremony annually honors Gold, Silver and Bronze award winners in three different employee-size categories - large (over 500 co-workers), medium (50 to 500 co-workers) and small (under 50 co-workers) - that provide resources and support in helping employees balance the needs of both work and family.

At its most recent annual meeting, the Institute for Helathcare Improvement selected St. Joseph's as Arkansas' first adult acute care mentor institution. St. Joseph's has earned mentor hospital status in the deployment of rapid response teams and prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia.

The McAuley Center, a Hot Springs Village-based facility that houses one of St. Joseph's three Express Care Clinics, was presented the Senior Center Best Practice Award at the 27th annual Arkansas State Aging Conference. The award - given for innovative programming that leads to the enhancement of senior centers - was presented to St. Joseph's for its creation of a new community-based senior services delivery model.

The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons awarded the Mercy Cancer Center another three-year Comprehensive Community Cancer Program recertification. The three-year approval, which this time around came with a commendation, followed a physician surveyor's successful on-site visit of the Center, which has held the prestigious CoC accreditation since 1992.

MultiPlan, Inc., the nation's oldest and largest independent PPO network, awarded St. Joseph's Mercy Health Foundation a 2007 Rural Health Outreach Grant for $3,000. St. Joseph's is using the grant money to assit its Mercy Mammography Outreach Program, therefore increasing the probability of early breast cancer detection for low-income and or uninsured women in South Central Arkansas.

In the latter stages of 2007, St. Joseph's Mercy Sleep Center was granted full program accreditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). To receive the organization's prestigious five-year accreditation - the gold standard by which both the medical community and public evaluates sleep medicine services - a sleep center must meet or exceed all standards for professional health care as designated by the AASM.

St. Joseph's Mercy Home Health program was named among the 2007 HomeCare Elite, a compilation of the most successful Medicare-certified home health care providers in the United States. The annual HomeCare Elite review identifies the top 25 percent of agencies throughout the nation, ranked by an analysis of performance measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance.

St. Joseph’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Services Program is nationally certified by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). The association’s certification recognizes rigorously reviewed programs nationwide that have been found to meet outlined essential requirements for standards of care.

Please view these web sites that contain information on Quality Care:

Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care

The Joint Commission

Institute for Healthcare Improvement