Awards and Recognitions
*Corporate/Enterprise Wide
** PIH Health Hospital - Whittier
*** PIH Health Hospital - Downey
****PIH Health Physicians
PIH Health Awards/Designations/Accreditations Received In Past Years:
2014 Healthgrades America’s 100 Best Hospitals Award**
2014 Healthgrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence**
2013 Truven Health Analytics’ Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals**
2013 American Stroke Association’s Get With The GuidelinesSM–Stroke (GWTG–Stroke) Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and Target: Stroke Honor Roll Recipient**
2013 Davis Lee MD named as a Winner of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) Award*
2013 PIH Health Physicians Achieves Elite Status in the California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) Standards of Excellence Survey****
2013 Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals **
2013 Most Wired Award by Hospitals and Health Networks
2013 NRC Picker Path to Excellence Award**
2013 Integrated Healthcare Association’s Pay for Performance (P4P) Most Improved Award
2012 Gold Recipient for the Third Annual Healthyroads Fit Company Award**
2012 Bronze Medal of Excellence in Organ Donation by The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ** PIH Health has received a bronze medal for achieving an organ donation conversion rate of 75 percent or more.
2012 Passed Certification for Disease-Specific Care Certification Manual by The Joint Commission**
2012 NRC Picker Path to Excellence Award **
2012 A+ Credit Rating along with a Stable Outlook by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Rating Services**
Rating is for the year -to-date (YTD) financial statements, as of May 31, 2010, patient volume and statistics, as well as PIH’s latest five-year long range plan.
Accreditation by The Joint Commission**
2012 Best Hospitals in the Los Angeles Metro area by U.S. News & World Report**
PIH is ranked 22 on the list of 140 hospitals.
2012 A+ Hospital Safety Score**the Hospital Safety Score uses 26 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single score representing
a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from infections, injuries and medical and medication errors.
2012 Bright Health Physicians Achieves Elite Status in the California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) Standards of Excellence Survey****
2012 Franklin Award of Distinction by The Joint Commission and the American Case Management Association (ACMA)**
2012 American Stroke Association’s Get With The GuidelinesSM–Stroke (GWTG–Stroke) Gold Performance Achievement Award**
2011 NRC Picker Path to Excellence Award**
2011 American Stroke Association’s Get With The GuidelinesSM–Stroke (GWTG–Stroke) Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award**
2011 Best Hospitals in Los Angeles by U.S. News & World Report**
PIH is ranked 18 on the list of 44 hospitals.
2011 CIO 100 Award *
CIO magazine has named Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital (PIH) as a recipient of the 2011 CIO Award. This award, under the leadership of PIH’s Chief Information Officer Brian Smolskis, recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology.
2011 Accreditation for Breast MRI to the Patricia L. Scheifly Breast Health Center by the American College of Radiology**
2010 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons to the Ruby L. Golleher Comprehensive Cancer Program**
This PIH program is one of a select group of 90 currently accredited cancer programs across the U.S. to receive this award.
2010 NRC Picker Path to Excellence Award **
2010 American Stroke Association’s Get With The GuidelinesSM–Stroke (GWTG–Stroke) Gold Performance Achievement Award**
The award recognizes PIH’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.
2010 Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation to the Ruby L. Golleher Comprehensive Cancer Program **
Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the AmericanCollege of Surgeons (ACoS)
2010 A+ Credit Rating along with a Stable Outlook by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Rating Services**
2010 Safe Lifting Leadership Award**
The award recognizes PIH’s commitment and dedication to the advancement of safe lifting practices and caregiver injury prevention and as a national leader in best practices.
2010 VHA National Leadership Award for Community Benefit Excellence**
2010-2011– Designated as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology**
