Achieving Excellence

St. Francis - Emory Healthcare has earned disease-specific certifications from The Joint Commission for Advanced Primary Stroke Care; Total Hip Replacement Care; Total Knee Replacement Care; and Perinatal Care (the first hospital in Georgia to earn such certification).

St. Joseph Regional Medical Center Named U.S. News & World Report “2024 Maternity Care Access Hospital,” one of 73 such hospitals recognized across the country for providing quality care to expectant parents ‒ who would not otherwise have access to maternity care ‒ and serving communities that would otherwise be maternity care deserts. For the second consecutive year, U.S. News and World Report also named SJRMC as one of the “Best Hospitals for Maternity Care.”

Southwestern Medical Center was named to Newsweek’s list of “America’s Best-In-State Hospitals 2024” and in Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals U.S. rankings (announced in 2022). Southwestern received Healthgrades’ 2024 Outstanding Patient Experience Award in March of 2024, an honor attained by only 15% of the approximately 4,500 eligible hospitals across the country. The hospital was one of 100 included in the in the 2024 Becker’s Hospital Review listing of “Great Community Hospitals” and was also included in the 2023 Becker’s listing of “Great Community Hospitals.” Southwestern Medical Center also earned an A grade for safety during The Leapfrog Group’s most recent (Spring 2024) rating period and received four consecutive Leapfrog Group “A” grades for safety up until the Spring 2022 ratings, when it was the only “A”-rated facility in southwest Oklahoma. In addition, Southwestern was designated a Purple Heart Hospital in October 2023 for its support of veterans, making it the only hospital in Oklahoma and the only civilian hospital in the nation to earn the distinction.

Watertown Regional Medical Center is one of less than 2% of hospitals nationwide to be recognized by Healthgrades in 2024 for both Outstanding Patient Experience and Patient Safety Excellence, a feat the hospital also accomplished in 2023. The hospital was also included in The Chartis Center for Rural Health’s 2024 listing of the “Top 100 Rural and Community Hospitals,” another accolade it also achieved in 2023. Watertown was one of 100 hospitals included in the 2024 Becker’s Hospital Review listing of “Great Community Hospitals” and was also included in the 2023 Becker’s listing of “Great Community Hospitals.” Watertown earned an “A” grade from The Leapfrog Group for the fall 2023 rating period and was named to U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 High-Performing Hospital list for Maternity Care.