One Award-Winning Health System. So Many Ways to Excel.

Our Memorial Health System colleagues pursue excellence every single day. We deliver comprehensive patient care, learn important new skills and certifications and recruit top-performing professionals. We receive a number of prestigious awards and recognitions because of our passion and commitment to quality patient care.

Leadership Development Recognition

Association for Talent Development BEST Award
Memorial Health System was recognized with a BEST award from The Association for Talent Development. The prestigious award recognizes employee talent development practices that affect enterprise-wide success. Featured areas include: excellence in talent development as a strategic business tool, learning opportunities for colleagues, learning links to individual and organizational performance and investment in talent development and performance initiatives.

Chief Learning Officer Magazine’s LearningElite Gold Award
Memorial Health System was recognized for the fifth year in a row with a LearningElite Gold Award from Chief Learning Officer. The award recognizes organizations that surpass benchmark standards for putting workforce learning and development strategies into practice. Memorial was ranked seventh in the nation in a field of several hundred applicants and also received the award for Best Mid-Sized Company.

The National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) honored Memorial Health System with the 2018 biennial recognition as a BOLD Organization. BOLD – Best Organizations for Leadership Development – honors organizations that are using research-informed practices to develop their leaders and improve health and healthcare in their communities. MHS received its first BOLD award in 2016.

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Top 100 Most Integrated Health Network

Memorial Health System has been named one of the top 100 most integrated health networks in the country. MHS is one of only six health systems in Illinois to make the annual list for 2009, compiled by SDI, a healthcare analytics company. SDI's list evaluates healthcare organizations on their performance and degree of integration in eight categories: integration, integrated technology, contractual capabilities, outpatient utilization, financial stability, services and access, hospital utilization and physicians.

Lincoln Silver Award for Progress Towards Excellence

Memorial Health System received a second Silver Award for Progress Towards Excellence from the Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence. This marks the third time that the Lincoln Foundation has recognized the health system. MHS received its first Silver Award in 2005 and earned the Lincoln Bronze Award for Commitment to Excellence in 2003. The Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence is a not-for-profit organization that assists Illinois organizations striving for performance excellence through the planning and implementation of sound management processes. Each year a Lincoln board of examiners reviews and assesses award applications; a panel of judges determines which applicants have earned recognition.

Fivefold Rehabilitation Accreditation

Memorial Medical Center received a rare fivefold accreditation for its rehabilitation services from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). Memorial is one of only four healthcare organizations in the world – and the only one in Illinois – to receive full, three-year accreditations from CARF for five program areas for rehabilitation services: inpatient rehabilitation, adults and children; brain injury inpatient rehabilitation, adults and children; spinal cord system of care, adults and children; multiple service outpatient medical rehabilitation, adults and children; and stroke inpatient specialty.

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Magnet Recognition Status for Nursing Excellence for Memorial Medical Center

In Nov. 2006, Memorial Medical Center became one of only 225 hospitals nationwide to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Services from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Recognized as the gold standard for nursing excellence, Magnet status is the highest level of recognition awarded to organized nursing services in the United States. The ANCC's Magnet Recognition Program honors healthcare organizations that demonstrate excellence in nursing practice and adhere to national standards for the organization and delivery of nursing services.

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MHVI Performance Achievement Award

In January 2009, Memorial Medical Center was one of less than a hundred hospitals across the nation to be recognized by the American College of Cardiology Foundation for its commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients. The award – the National Cardiology Data Registry's Action Registry-Get With the Guidelines Silver Performance Achievement Award – recognized "Memorial Medical Center for our commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients," Drew Early, cardiovascular administrator for Memorial Medical Center, said. Guidelines include aggressive use of medication, including cholesterol-lowering drugs, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, aspirin and anticoagulants in the hospital. The guidelines had to be achieved for 12 consecutive months.

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