While our focus at John C. Lincoln Health Network is exclusively on meeting the unique needs of our local community, experts have repeatedly put us in a league with the nation's best.
From nursing care to community service to business ethics and more, we've been honored by experts with awards for practically every aspect of what we do. Awards we have received most recently include:
Award Archives:
2008 - 2011 | 2005 - 2007 | 2002 - 2004
Beacon Award for Excellence in Critical Care
2012
The Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) at John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital earned a silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence in Critical Care from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
The AACN created the Beacon Award to recognize individual units that distinguish themselves by improving every facet of patient care. The silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence earned by the CVICU signifies continuous learning and effective systems to achieve optimal patient care.
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Magnet Nursing Hospital
2009, 2004
On April 13, 2009, the nation's foremost authority on the quality of patient care, the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on the Magnet Recognition Program, announced they had unanimously redesignated North Mountain as Magnet.
Magnet status is based on the 14 Forces of Magnetism, which are measurable criteria for patient care. Magnet designation is considered the nation's gold standard for nursing quality. Only about 4 percent of the nation's 6,000-plus hospitals have earned Magnet status. Less than half that group have earned redesignation.
In December 2004, John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital became the first in the Valley to receive Magnet status, which must be renewed every four years in order to retain the designation. ... Full story in News & Events
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Chest Pain Center Accreditation
2010, 2008 and 2007
John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital again earned the highest level of accreditation as a Chest Pain Center from the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC), an international organization dedicated to eliminating heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death for Americans.
Because SCPC criteria have become more rigorous since Deer Valley Hospital first earned SCPC's highest level of accreditation in 2007, the new certification reflects an even higher level of achievement. To earn the newest and highest level of accreditation as a Chest Pain Center, the clinical staff at Deer Valley Hospital engaged in a demanding and detailed SCPC evaluation of their ability to assess, diagnose and treat patients who might be experiencing a heart attack.
In November 2008, John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital became an accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention, also known as angioplasty) by the SCPC. ... Full story in News & Events
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Heart Failure Centers
2011
John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital and John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital were the first in Arizona to earn full accreditation as Heart Failure Centers from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. Our hospitals meet or exceed national standards for congestive heart failure patients in addition to holding the highest state and national certifications for heart attack care.
Accreditation as Heart Failure Centers completes our hospitals' designation as the places where heart patients can get the most comprehensive high quality care. SCPC's goal is to help facilities manage the heart failure patient more efficiently and improve patient outcomes.
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Primary Stroke Center
2011
DNV Healthcare, an international certifying agency approved by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, certified John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital as a Primary Stroke Center.
North Mountain Hospital demonstrated that its stroke care program follows national standards and guidelines that can significantly improve outcomes for stroke patients.
DNV Primary Stroke Center certification is based on submitted documentation and a site visit by DNV surveyors, during which the hospital staff demonstrates its commitment to excellence. DNV's PSC Certification program incorporates elements from federal CMS hospital standards as well as requirements from the guidelines of the Brain Attack Coalition and recommendations of the American Stroke Association.
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U.S. News and World Report's Best Hospitals
2012
John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital has been ranked 12th in the state and 10th in the Valley in this year's U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals edition. U.S. News & World Report's annual listing of top hospitals is among the most respected of all national rankings.
The report ranked six services at North Mountain as "High Performing" compared with hospitals nationwide: diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology and urology
Eleven physicians on staff at North Mountain were selected based on a peer nomination process and included on the list of U.S. News Top Doctors. Patient satisfaction at North Mountain also significantly exceeded state and national averages.
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Arizona Foothills' Best of Our Valley
2013
Arizona Foothills magazine and AZFoothills.com named John C. Lincoln Health Network as the Best Hospital Group in the Health & Self category and The Gold Ball as the Best Annual Gala in the Arts & Entertainment category for its 2013 Best of Our Valley list, as picked by readers.
Readers vote on their favorite people, businesses and hidden treasures in the Valley.
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Breast Imaging Center of Excellence
2011
John C. Lincoln's Breast Health and Research Center was designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR), the national professional organization for physicians who specialize in medical imaging.
When the Breast Health and Research Center received the honor, just 633 of the nation's 8,600 breast imaging centers had earned the Centers of Excellence designation. Likewise, the center became just the ninth in Arizona to earn the designation.
By awarding facilities the status of a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence, the ACR recognizes breast imaging centers that have earned accreditation in all of the College's voluntary, breast-imaging accreditation programs and modules, in addition to the mandatory Mammography Accreditation Program. The breast imaging services at John C. Lincoln's breast Center are fully accredited in mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy, breast ultrasound and ultrasound-guided breast biopsy.
Peer-review evaluations, conducted in each breast imaging modality by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field, have determined that this facility has achieved high practice standards in image quality, personnel qualifications, facility equipment, quality control procedures, and quality assurance programs. ... Full story in News & Events
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Best Workplaces for Women Awards
2012, 2011 and 2009
AZ magazine, a publication of The Arizona Republic, named John C. Lincoln Health Network as one of Top 25 Workplaces for Women in Arizona.
Winners were selected based on strengths in a number of areas: percentage of women in management, efforts to move women into leadership roles and policies to help working women care for their families.
Arizona Woman magazine, the predecessor to AZ magazine, named John C. Lincoln Health Network one of the top 25 places for women to work in Arizona for 2009.
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Best Places to Work — Valley of the Sun
2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2003
In December 2010, John C. Lincoln Health Network was named one of the "Best Places to Work in the Valley," in the Extra Large Workplaces category, by Phoenix Business Journal.
John C. Lincoln came in fourth in the category, which surveys Greater Phoenix businesses with more than 3,000 employees. 2010 marked the fifth year in a row — and the sixth year overall — in which John C. Lincoln was ranked.
The "Best Places to Work" list, which was started in 2003, recognizes Valley companies that — through a third-party-administered employee satisfaction survey — are ranked as being the best places to work. Various parts of employee life are surveyed, including workplace environment, leadership direction, culture and management practices. ... Full story in News Events
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Sylvia Moss Brown Award of Excellence
2013
Shelly Diana, RN, CCRN, ICU charge nurse; Jodi Todd, RN, ICU nurse; Amanda McFarren, RN, BSN, ICU nurse; and Kari Johnson, RN, APRN-BC, MSN, clinical nurse specialist, critical care, all from John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital, received the national Sylvia Moss Brown Award for Excellence and a $10,000 grant for their work on early recognition of delirium in trauma patients and improving care of trauma patients.
American Excess Insurance Exchange (AEIX) sponsored the national 2012 Risk Management Awards, and the project with the most committee votes received the Award for Excellence in addition to one of five grants. AEIX is affiliated with Premier, an alliance of hospitals and health care networks who work together to reduce costs while providing the highest quality of health care.
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Lifetime Achievement Award
2012
David Lincoln and the Lincoln family were honored with AZ Business magazine's first Lifetime Achievement Award in its 2012 Healthcare Leadership Awards in a ceremony in Phoenix.
The Lincolns are more than the namesake of the John C. Lincoln Health Network. The Lincoln family has nurtured an organization that grew out of a church mission to help Sunnyslope's neediest residents in the 1930s into today's locally owned, not-for-profit health care network.
David Lincoln has been on the John C. Lincoln Health Foundation Board for 33 years and recently became an emeritus board member of the John C. Lincoln Health Network board, marking 45 years of service there. Now in his 80s, he continues to take his day-to-day board responsibilities seriously, reading every document and offering sound advice and wisdom on the future of the Network.
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Trace3 IT Outlier Award Finalist
2012
Robert Slepin, the vice president and Network chief information officer, was named a finalist for the Trace3 IT Outlier Award for 2012 by CIO magazine.
The program honors technology executives who have demonstrated exceptionality in such areas as innovation, technological performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Finalists are selected by an independent panel of judges.
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UnitedHealth Premium Total Joint Replacement Specialty Center
2012
UnitedHealthcare has designated John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital a UnitedHealth Premium Total Joint Replacement Specialty Center in recognition of its quality and outcomes.
UnitedHealthcare developed the UnitedHealth Premium specialty center program to give its members information and access to hospitals meeting rigorous quality criteria for conscientious, reliable total joint replacement care. Deer Valley's quality assessment was three stars, the highest rating.
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Dr. Daniel T. Cloud Outstanding Practice Teen Award
2012
Desert Mission Community Health Center received the 2012 Dr. Daniel T. Cloud Outstanding Practice Teen Award from the Arizona Partnership for Immunization (TAPI) for its 97 percent immunization rate for patients between 11 and 15 years old.
The award recognizes practices and clinics that show leadership and dedication in the field of immunization by reaching 90 percent or higher in immunization coverage levels for children they serve. It's named for Daniel T. Cloud, MD, a pediatric surgeon and past president of the American Medical Association who served as the chairman of the board for TAPI from its beginning until he passed away in 2010.
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Gold Medal for Organ Donor Registrations
2012
John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital received a gold medal for the Most Registrations for organ donations via DonateLifeAZ.org in the Hospital Donor Registry Challenge.
North Mountain tied with the University of Arizona Medical Center. During April, National Donate Life Month, 54 hospitals and health care facilities in Arizona competed against each other in the second annual Hospital Donor Registry Challenge.
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MVP Award, Most Valuable Phoenician
2012
For her work and dedication to the community of Sunnyslope, Christina Plante received an MVP Award for being a Most Valuable Phoenician.
As the neighborhood relations manager for the John C. Lincoln Health Network, Plante is involved in many activities that improve the community, including the Sunnyslope Art Walk, held in the fall and the spring each year.
Mayor Greg Stanton noted her dedication to the success of the Sunnyslope Art Walk as key in her recognition.
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Silver Achievement Award for Stroke Care
2012
Stroke care at John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital has earned the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Silver Quality Achievement Award.
The award recognizes North Mountain's commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations.
The hospital's excellence in treating stroke patients rapidly and effectively led to North Mountain's certification last year as a Primary Stroke Center by DNV Healthcare, an international certifying agency approved by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Aces of Hearts Award
2012
Network Prehospital coordinator Tracy Moroney, RN, BSN, BCEN, has been honored with a 2012 Aces of Hearts Award from the Arizona Emergency Medical Systems.
Moroney was nominated for the EMS recognition award, presented annually to individuals who have provided outstanding service in EMS or Trauma for the Central Arizona Region, by the Mayer Fire District. In her role, she reaches out to the EMS community and assists rural EMS agencies based at Deer Valley in a partnership to improve patient care.
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Commitment to Care Award
2012
Nelson Faux, MD, EmCare Regional Medical Director and North Mountain Director of Emergency Medicine, was named the Commitment to Care Award winner for 2012 out of more than 7,000 EmCare physicians in the United States.
EmCare bestows the Commitment to Care Award each year on a single, outstanding emergency medicine physician. Faux is described as a role model for being an emergency physician as he focuses on what is best for the patient.
EmCare works with hundreds of hospitals nationwide to provide physician recruiting, credentialing, scheduling, leadership, training and education, and billing.
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MAP Award for High Performance in Revenue Cycle
2012
In recognition of its top performing Revenue Cycle Department, John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital is one of eight hospitals in the United States to receive a 2012 MAP Award for High Performance in Revenue Cycle from the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Hospitals must be in the top 10 percent across the country in Revenue Cycle performance to even be considered for the award, and only 170 hospitals applied. Deer Valley is the only Arizona hospital being recognized.
This recognizes Deer Valley's best practices in achieving excellence and ensuring patients are cared for and the hospital has a sustainable financial performance as well as innovation and effective practices that look at the future.
North Mountain did not apply as the rules for hospitals with trauma care are different; however, the same standards are upheld throughout the Network with all Revenue Cycle practices.
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Forty Under 40 Class
2012
Ann-Marie Alameddin, JD, Network attorney, has been chosen as part of the 2012 Forty Under 40 class for Phoenix.
She was selected from nearly 300 candidates based on professional and community achievements, commitment to making a difference and leadership both in her professional life as in-house counsel and director of Government Relations at John C. Lincoln Health Network and on a personal level for starting free legal clinics at St. Vincent De Paul and Mountain Park Health Center.
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Grassroots Advocacy Champion Award
2012
The American Hospital Association (AHA), in partnership with the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (AzHHA) has awarded Bruce Pearson, senior vice president and CEO of John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital, with the American Hospital Association Grassroots Advocacy Champion Award.
As a 2012 Grassroots Champion, Pearson is being recognized for his exceptional leadership in generating grassroots and community activity in support of the hospital mission and for his tireless championing of patients' access to quality health care.
The award is presented annually to one individual from each state with winners being chosen by the state hospital association.
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Midas+ Platinum Quality Award
2012
John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital has been recognized as a top performing hospital in the Midas+ Platinum Quality Award program.
This award is based upon Deer Valley's 2011 performance ranking in the top 5 percent of hospitals tracked in the Midas+ National Comparative Database in several key areas of clinical performance including acute care readmission rates within 30 days.
Midas+ tracks more than 654 hospitals that use either the Midas+ CPMS or DataVision to track data.
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