Awards and Honors
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Family-Centered Care Award
2010
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), with 14,000 clinician members in 80 countries, has named BIDMC the winner of the 2010 Family-Centered Care Award. The annual award is given to one hospital or ICU from around the world to "recognize innovation that improves the care provided to critically ill and injured patients and their families."
The award recognizes the efforts of the staff of BIDMC’s nine ICUs to develop “person-centered critical care.” Their work includes the creation of an ICU Patient and Family Advisory Council, waiting room improvements, elimination of formal visiting hours to allow more access for families, simulated family meetings to help train medical residents, family pagers in the surgical ICU, transition-out-of-the-ICU work in the CardioVascular Institute at BIDMC, pro-active rounding of chaplains and more. Read more >>
Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM)
Gould Education and Workforce Award
2010
BIDMC is the recipient of the 13th Annual John Gould Education & Workforce Development Award from Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM). AIM is a nonprofit, nonpartisan employer association of 6,000 Bay State businesses and institutions chartered to maintain and improve the Commonwealth’s economic climate in order to make Massachusetts a good place to live and work.
The Gould Award was created by AIM to annually recognize the contributions of individuals, employers, and institutions for their efforts to improve public education and advancement, employability and productivity of the residents of the Commonwealth. In 2000, the award was named for John Gould, upon his retirement as President and CEO of AIM, to recognize his many contributions to improve the quality of public education and workforce training activities in Massachusetts. Read more >>
Premier Health Care Alliance
Premier Award for Quality
2008, 2009, 2010
For the third consecutive year, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has been recognized by the Premier Healthcare Alliance as a winner of the Premier Award for Quality (AFQ), one of 21 hospital winners and three healthcare systems nationwide ranked in the top 1 percent in the nation for patient care. The award recognizes leading healthcare organizations that efficiently provide outstanding patient care and consistently set the standard in clinical excellence. The AFQ’s performance-based criteria, including clinical quality outcomes, resource utilization, and clinical process indicators measures top performers at the overall hospital level. Read more >>
Learn more about BIDMC's Award-winning Quality and Safety efforts >>
Leapfrog Group
Top Hospital
2009
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center was named one of the nation’s top 45 hospitals that lead by example by the Leapfrog Group, which conducts the only national, public comparison of hospitals on key issues including mortality rates for certain common procedures, infection rates, safety practices and measures of efficiency. It was the third time in four years that BIDMC has been recognized for meeting Leapfrog’s stringent criteria revolving around patient safety and quality. To be honored hospitals must:
- Fully meet Leapfrog standards for implementing computer physician order entry (CPOE) systems (which can reduce medication errors by up to 85 percent), and for passing Leapfrog’s test of their system;
- Fully meet stringent performance standards for complex, high-risk procedures (such as heart bypass surgery) done in that particular hospital;
- Fully meet standards for staffing the ICU, shown to reduce mortality by 40 percent or more; and
- Score in the top decile in the country for efficiency – scored by the Leapfrog Hospital Recognition Program incorporating quality outcomes, length of stay, readmission rates, and incidence of hospital acquired conditions and infections.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Medal of Honor for Organ Donation
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
For the fourth year in a row, Beth Israel Deaconess has received the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Medal of Honor for Organ Donation in 2009. BIDMC is the only hospital in Massachusetts to have achieved this honor fives years in a row. Every hospital in the country is considered a donor hospital, but only 90 have received the Medal of Honor for Organ Donation four years in a row. Hospitals and organ procurement organizations earn this designation for consistently achieving adjusted donation rates of 75 percent or higher in a single continuous 12-month period. Donation rates refer to the number of patients who are medically suitable to be considered for donation, who actually become donors. For the past five years, BIDMC has met or exceeded this 75 percent rate. Read more >>
Harvard Pilgrim Hospital
Honor Roll
2009
BIDMC has landed on the 2009 Harvard Pilgrim Hospital Honor Roll. The Hospital Honor Roll names those hospitals whose performance was among the top 25 percent of those measured nationally on a set of composite quality metrics. The quality metrics are based on Hospital Quality Alliance measures, as reported by CMS on Hospital Compare, and Leapfrog patient safety measures. Read more >>
Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals
Cardiovascular Benchmarks
2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center was named one of the Top100 U.S. Hospitals that set the nation’s benchmarks for inpatient cardiovascular care by Thomson Reuters. BIDMC and its CardioVascular Institute earned a spot in the category for its peer group -- teaching hospitals with cardiovascular residency programs. Results show the top 100 hospitals not only provided exceptional inpatient care, but also had significantly better post-discharge outcomes, including lower readmission rates for heart failure and heart attack patients as well as lower 30-day mortality rates for heart attack patients. This means that patients treated in hospitals with balanced high performance in cardiovascular care are more likely to have better results 30 days after discharge. Read more >>
American Hospital Association-McKesson
Quest for Quality Prize Finalist
2009
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center was named the 2009 American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® finalist, one of three hospitals nationally to be recognized for leadership and innovation in quality, safety and commitment to patient care. BIDMC was cited for its goal of eliminating all preventable harm for patients by 2012 and for emphasizing leadership and transparency to help the hospital move toward that important goal. The award noted BIDMC’s strong values of reliability, safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness and equity are reinforced throughout the organization. The award winners were selected by a multi-disciplinary committee of health care quality and patient safety experts based on its culture of quality and efforts to achieve the Institute of Medicine’s six quality aims for health care. Read more >>
US News & World Report
"Best Hospitals"
2008, 2009
US News & World Report’s Best Hospitals rankings for 2009 placed Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center among an elite group of 174 hospitals nationally – only three percent of the nation’s 4,861 hospitals – that rank in at least one of 16 specialty categories. BIDMC ranked in eight specialties: cancer care, cardiac care, digestive disorders, endocrinology (in conjunction with Joslin Diabetes Center), geriatrics, gynecology, kidney diseases and otolaryngology. Read more >>
Stand Up To Cancer
A Cancer “Dream Team”
2009
Lew Cantley, PhD, Director of BIDMC’s Cancer Center and Chief of Signal Transduction, was named in May of 2009 to lead one of five scientific “Dream Teams” funded by Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a high-profile national initiative created last in 2008 with the goal of getting new cancer treatments to patients in an accelerated timeframe. Dr. Cantley’s team received $15 million.
With co-leaders from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Cantley has assembled a prestigious of 25 world-renowned scientists and clinicians that additionally includes investigators from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vall d’Hebron Oncology Research Institute, and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Care Center. Together, they will study the role of the PI3K cancer pathway in women’s cancers, including breast cancer, ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer. Read more >>
Thomson Reuters
Top 100 Hospitals
2009
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center was named one of the Top 100 Hospitals in the United States based on overall organizational performance according to the annual study released in March 2009 by the Health care business of the Thomson Reuters company. BIDMC was the only Massachusetts hospital named in the survey and one of 15 major teaching hospitals named nationwide. The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals National Benchmarks study is based on the 100 Top Hospitals National Balanced Scorecard that evaluates performance in nine areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, patient satisfaction, and adherence to clinical standards of care. Read more >>
Jewish Vocational Services
Business Leadership Award
2009
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center was honored by Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) with the 2009 Business Leadership Award. The award recognizes the medical center’s considerable investment in its employees through initiatives such as BIDMC’s five pipeline programs, which train employees for new jobs in health care, and the Employee Career Initiative, a service providing one-on-one career and academic counseling and free on-site pre-college and college-level science courses. Read more >>
American Heart Association
Gold Start! Fit-Friendly Company
2008, 2009
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center was one of nine Boston-area businesses recognized by the American Heart Association’s “Start! Fit-Friendly Companies Program” for promoting physical activity and health in the workplace. A first time designee, BIDMC was awarded the Gold award. Start! Fit-Friendly Companies Program participants implement various options to encourage physical activity, nutrition and culture enhancements such as on-site walking routes, healthy food options in cafeterias and vending machines, annual employee health risk assessments and online tracking tools. Read more >>
Boston Business Journal
Champion in Health Care
2008
The Boston Business Journal named Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center a 2008 Champion in Health Care Honoree in the employer category. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care nominated the hospital based on BIDMC’s "flexible working environment that respects the different cultural and personal preferences of its 9,000 diverse employees and strives to meet their needs." The nomination form highlighted the medical center’s commitment to employees’ physical, mental and educational wellbeing through initiatives offered at the Tanger Be Well Center as well as Workforce Development’s Pipeline Programs.
Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospital
National Benchmarks for Success
2008
BIDMC is one of only 15 major teaching hospitals in the country, and the only in Massachusetts, honored. The award winners have higher survival rates, keep more patients complication-free and attract more patients – all while maintaining financial stability.
Joint Commission
Accreditation Award
2007
In 2007, BIDMC was awarded accreditation from the Joint Commission (formerly the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health care Organizations) under the Commission's new unannounced, on-site evaluation program. The accreditation award recognizes BIDMC's dedication to complying with the Joint Commission's state-of-the-art standards on a continuous basis.
Joint Commission and National Quality Forum
John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award
2007
BIDMC is being recognized for dramatically improving overall patient safety and quality of obstetric care. BIDMC staff members were able to accomplish this by using Crew Resource Management (CRM) principles in their daily work. The success of this work has been broadly recognized and has influenced similar initiatives. Learn more >>
Foundation for Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT)
Accreditation Award
BIDMC’s stem cell transplant program was the second program in Boston to be accredited by FACT. Founded in 1996, FACT is a non-profit organization co-founded by the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) and the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ASBMT) that promotes high-quality patient care and laboratory performance through voluntary inspection and accreditation in the field of cellular therapy. Accreditation by FACT is now recognized as the gold standard for approval of transplant programs in North America.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA
Health Care Excellence Award (1st recipient): Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
2007
The award was created to recognize exceptional achievement in improving the safety and effectiveness of health care in Massachusetts. More than 40 health care organizations throughout Massachusetts, including teaching and community hospitals, health centers and state agencies, completed nomination papers for the award.
Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals
Performance Improvement Leaders
2007
One of only 15 major teaching hospitals in the country honored. The study revealed that 100 hospitals from all across the nation — the 2007 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders — have shown a clear ability to improve, raising clinical outcomes and efficiency and growing financial strength.
Blue Cross Blue Shield
'Blue Center for Cardiac Care'
2006
BIDMC was named Blue Distinction Center (SM) for Cardiac Care by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA). This national distinction recognizes the exceptional quality of care that patients receive.
Commission on Cancer
Outstanding Achievement Award
2006
BIDMC’s cancer program was the only program in Massachusetts, and one of only 34 in the country, to receive the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Commission on Cancer, a consortium of professional organizations that includes the American Cancer Society, the Society of Surgical Oncology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American College of Radiology, the Oncology Nursing Society and members of the American College of Surgeons.
