Awards & Recognition
Awards & Recognition in the Sutter Health Central Valley Region.
2012 Awards & Recognition
City of Modesto Honors MMC for Waste Reduction and Recycling Efforts
December 21, 2012 – The award honored our efforts to recycle and reduce waste during the 2011 calendar year. The City stated that participating organizations, including MMC, recycled or reduced 36,000 tons of material that otherwise would have been thrown away, helping to keep Modesto in compliance with state regulations.
MMC recognized as top performer in Patient Safety First program
November 14, 2012 – Memorial Medical Center recognized as Patient Safety First top performer for significantly reducing two or more types of hospital acquired infections to zero and maintaining that standard for a full year from April 2011 through June 2012.
STCH recognized as top performer in Patient Safety First program
November 14, 2012 – Sutter Tracy Community Hospital recognized as Patient Safety First top performer for significantly reducing two or more types of hospital acquired infections to zero and maintaining that standard for a full year from April 2011 through June 2012.
MMC Named Consumer Choice Award Winner 11th Consecutive Year
November 9, 2012 – Memorial Medical Center, for the 11th year in a row, has won the prestigious Consumer's Choice Award from the National Research Corporation. Consumers in the Modesto market ranked MMC at the top of the list for Best Overall Quality and Image.
MMC – American College of Cardiology Foundation’s NCDR® ACTION Registry® – GWTGTM Gold Performance Achievement Award
September 27, 2012 – Memorial Medical Center consistently followed the treatment guidelines in ACTION Registry®-GWTGTM for eight consecutive quarters and met a performance standard of 90% for specific performance measures to receive this 2012 award.
MHLB – Top Performer on "Key Quality Measures"
September 19, 2012 – Memorial Hospital Los Banos, part of the Sutter Health network, today 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.
STCH – Top Performer on "Key Quality Measures"
September 19, 2012 – Sutter Tracy Community Hospital, part of the Sutter Health network, today 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.
MMC – Memorial Medical Center Receives Third Institute of Quality® Designation from Aetna
August 24, 2012 – Memorial Medical Center (MMC), part of the Sutter Health network, has again been designated an Aetna Institute of Quality® (IOQ) Bariatric Surgery Facility for treating individuals living with morbid or extreme obesity.
SHCVR – Two Sutter Health Hospitals in the Central Valley Awarded an “A” for Patient Safety by Hospital Safety Score℠
June 20, 2012 – Memorial Medical Center and Sutter Tracy Community Hospital, both part of the Sutter Health network of Northern California hospitals, have been honored with an “A” Hospital Safety Score℠ by The Leapfrog Group.
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2012 – Sutter Health's President's Award for Most Improved Performance
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2012 – Sutter Health President's Award for Quality
2011 Awards & Recognition
MMC Receives STEMI Receiving Center designation by the Mountain-Valley EMS Agency
November 10, 2011 – Memorial Medical Center was designated a STEMI Receiving Center by the Mountain-Valley Emergency Medical Services Agency (MVEMSA), as well as acknowledgement as an Accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI from the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC).
MMC's VNA of the Central Valley named to 2011 HomeCare Elite
October 24, 2011 – Memorial Medical Center’s home health agency, Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of the Central Valley, was named to the 2011 HomeCare Elite™, a compilation of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States.
SGMF Recognized as an Honoree at 2011 AMGA Acclaim Awards
September 18, 2011 – Gould Medical Group was named an Acclaim Award Honoree. The award, granted through AMGA’s philanthropic arm, the American Medical Group Foundation (AMGF).
MMC Named Consumer Choice Award Winner 10th Consecutive Year
September 16, 2011 – Memorial Medical Center, for the 10th year in a row, has won the prestigious Consumer's Choice Award from the National Research Corporation. Consumers in the Modesto market ranked MMC at the top of the list for Best Overall Quality and Image.
MHLB Top Performer on "Key Quality Measures"
September 14, 2011 – Memorial Hospital Los Banos, part of the Sutter Health network of care today 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.
MMC has qualified to receive the January 2011 CHART "Certificate of Excellence".
May 5, 2011 – MMC has qualified to receive the January 2011 CHART "Certificate of Excellence". This means you and the staff of your hospital have achieved above average or superior scores in 5 of the 8 measure sets (or >62.5% of the measure sets for which you qualify) used to determine eligibility for the Certificate. Your hospital has also not received a "below average" or "poor" score on any CHART measure reported through August 2010, you have chosen to report all CHART measure sets for which you qualify, and you can be scored in at least 4 of the 8 measure sets.
MHLB recognized for its efforts to reduce waste
2011 – Memorial Hospital Los Banos was recognized with the California Integrated Waste Management Board’s 2011 WRAP award for its efforts to reduce the waste that goes into local landfills.
MMC's Acute Multi Care Unit awarded the Beacon Award for Excellence, Gold Status
2011 – Memorial Medical Center’s Acute Multi Care Unit (AMCU), was awarded the Beacon Award for Excellence, Gold Status, from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN). The award comes after a nearly three-year, rigorous process of evaluation and improvement in the unit based on multiple measures.
MMC was recognized for its waste reduction and recycling efforts
2011 – Memorial Medical Center was recognized by the City of Modesto for its outstanding waste reduction and recycling efforts.
MMC recognized for its efforts to reduce the waste that goes into local landfills
2011 – Memorial Medical Center was again recognized with the California Integrated Waste Management Board’s 2011 WRAP award for its efforts to reduce the waste that goes into local landfills.
MMC's Carla Mensonides, Healthcare Career Coordinator, named as a finalist
2011 – California Nurse Week Magazine, Carla Mensonides, Healthcare Career Coordinator, named as a finalist in the category of Mentoring for the 2011 Nursing Excellence Awards.
SGMF receives Right Care Initiative’s gold level of achievement
2011 – Right Care Initiative’s gold level of achievement; A public-private collaborative effort to improve clinical quality in three key areas: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and hospital-acquired infections, and to rank among the best in the nation on critical metrics of how well care is being managed.
SGMF voted BEST MEDICAL OFFICE for Best of Lodi
2011 – Sutter Gould Medical Foundation voted BEST MEDICAL OFFICE by readers of The Record newspaper for Best of Lodi 2011.
SGMF recognized for its waste reduction and recycling efforts
2011 – Sutter Gould Medical Foundation was recognized by the City of Modesto for its outstanding waste reduction and recycling efforts.
SGMF – Congratulations to Dr. Elvis Fedalizo (Family Medicine, Ceres Care Center)
2011 – Congratulations to Dr. Elvis Fedalizo (Family Medicine, Ceres Care Center), who was recently voted “Best Physician” by the readers of The Ceres Courier.
STCH recognized for its efforts to reduce the waste that goes into local landfills
2011 – Sutter Tracy Community Hospital was recognized with the California Integrated Waste Management Board’s 2011 WRAP award for its efforts to reduce the waste that goes into local landfills.
STCH Top Performer
2011 – Sutter Tract Community Hospital Top Performer on "Key Quality Measures" from the Joint Commission.