Awards & Recognition
Magnet™ Recognition
Beacon Award
Joint Commission Gold Seal
Joint Commission Top Performers
Healthcare IT News BEST Hospital IT Departments
Kentucky Hospital Association Quality Award
Best Places to Work in Kentucky
Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility
Frankfort Regional Medical Center receives several local, state, and national awards and honors annually which reflect the hospital's dedication to excellent healthcare and service. To find out more, browse through the awards below earned by our caring, highly qualified team of healthcare professionals and staff.
National Awards and Honors
Magnet™ Recognition
Frankfort Regional Medical Center has received Magnet™ designation, the nation's highest recognition in nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Only five other hospitals in Kentucky and 5% nationwide have achieved this distinction.
Widely recognized as the "gold standard" of nursing excellence, Magnet-designated hospitals provide patients and their families with a benchmark by which to measure the quality of care they can expect to receive. This status creates a flywheel at hospitals-it shows the great value that the hospital sees in nursing excellence, and in turn attracts the best nurses who help to drive the hospital even further in its journey to be the best.
For more information on the The Magnet Recognition Program® or AACN, click here.
Beacon Award
Frankfort Regional Medical Center's Intensive Care Unit received the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence, an award given by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), in 2009 and 2010. The award is specifically designated to recognize the nation's top pediatric, progressive, and adult critical care units across a multitude of hospitals. The recognition represents extraordinary commitment to high-quality critical care standards, and dedication to the exceptional care of patients and their families.
The AACN launched the Beacon Award in the Fall of 2003, and the first recipients were announced in the Spring of 2004. Since then, 315 units (5%) of the estimated 6,000 Intensive Care Units in the United States have been recognized for excellence by this award. Fourty-three units have received the award twice, putting Frankfort Regional's ICU in the top 1% of ICU's. Frankfort Regional's ICU is one of only three hospitals in Kentucky to receive the designation.
For more information on the Beacon Award or AACN, click here.
The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval
Frankfort Regional Medical Center is proud to acknowledge our hospital staff, physicians and administration for achieving the maximum three-year accreditation awarded by The Joint Commission during their 2008 survey of the hospital.
The Joint Commission evaluates the quality and safety of care delivered in over 17,000 health care organizations across the country, and their standards are regarded as the most rigorous in the industry. Frankfort Regional Medical Center demonstrated full compliance with all of the 2008 National Patient Safety Goals.
The hospital's success in passing the survey means we offer our patients exceptional quality care across a broad range of inpatient and outpatient services. It also means that we're on track with our mission to meet the healthcare needs of our community.
For information concerning a public notice for The Joint Commission survey, click here.
The Joint Commission Top Performers on Key Quality Measures
Frankfort Regional Medical Center was named one of the nation's top performers on key quality measures by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in America.
As a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures, Frankfort Regional is among 405 hospitals being recognized for 2010, which represent the top 14% of Joint Commission accredited hospitals.
Frankfort Regional was recognized for the following measure sets:
- Heart Failure
- Pneumonia
- Surgical Care
For information about The Joint Commission's Top Performers on Key Quality Measures, click here.
Healthcare IT News "Where to Work: BEST Hospital IT Departments"
Frankfort Regional Medical Center’s Information Technology & Services (IT&S) department was recognized by Healthcare IT News in the “Where to Work: BEST Hospital IT Departments” in the Medium Hospital (101-350 beds) size category. Healthcare IT News will be profiling the Best Hospital IT Departments nationwide in its December 2011 Special Supplement Report.
This was Healthcare IT News’ first-ever “Where to Work: BEST Hospital IT Departments” project, and it’s goal was to determine what characteristics distinguish the best departments from all the rest. Employees graded their IT departments across seven categories: day-to-day work, IT team, management, hospital leadership, workplace culture, training and development and compensation.
For more information about Healthcare IT News list of winners, click here.
State Awards and Honors
Kentucky Hospital Association Quality Award
Frankfort Regional Medical Center received the 2011 Kentucky Hospital Association Quality Award in the 100-250 bed size category. KHA's Quality Award is presented to honor hospital leadership and innovation in quality, safety, and commitment in patient care. The hospital also received the award in 2009.
The goals of this award are to:
- Raise awareness of the need for an organization-wide commitment to highly reliable, exceptional quality, patient-centered care
- Reward successful efforts to develop and promote improvements in quality of care
- Inspire organizations to systematically integrate and align their quality improvement efforts throughout the organization
- Communicate successful programs and strategies to the hospital field
- Facilitate Kentucky hospitals' alignment of quality initiatives with national initiatives
For more information about the Kentucky Hospital Association, click here.
Best Places to Work in Kentucky
Frankfort Regional Medical Center was chosen as one of the best places to work in Kentucky in 2012 for the sixth consecutive year. In 2009, the hospital was selected as the overall best place to work in the state among large-sized companies (250 employees or greater).
The awards program was created in 2005 and is a project of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Kentucky SHRM Council and Best Companies Group. The selection process is based on an assessment of employee policies, procedures and benefits, as well as the results from an internal employee survey.
The Best Places to Work in Kentucky initiative is based on FORTUNE magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" list. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Kentucky has more than 17,000 privately-owned establishments with 20 or more employees. The goal of Best Places to Work in Kentucky is to raise the bar among the state's employers and create excellence and employee satisfaction in the workplace that will attract talented people for years to come.
For more information about the Best Places to Work in Kentucky, click here.
Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility
Frankfort Regional Medical Center has been selected as a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility for 2011. Frankfort Regional's innovative workplace practices include self-scheduling, flexible hours, and job sharing for staff members. Frankfort Regional also received the award in 2009 and 2010.
The Sloan Awards honor organizations of all sizes and all types in Central Kentucky and across the country that are using workplace flexibility as a strategy to increase workplace effectiveness and yield positive business results.
The Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility are part of the When Work Works project, an ongoing initiative of Families and Work Institute, the Institute for a Competitive Workforce (an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce), and the Twiga Foundation. Through When Work Works, these partner organizations provide research, resources, and recognition to employers nationwide. The project shares the results of research on creating effective and flexible workplaces that meet the needs of the 21st century.
For more information about the Sloan Awards, click here.