Awards and Accreditations
Emerson health is proud to have high quality and patient safety scores that reflect our commitment to the best possible patient care.
Quality Awards
- Forbes and Statisa Best Employer in State 2024
- Healthgrades
- 2025 America’s Best Hospitals for Prostate Surgery Award
- 2025 Outpatient Prostate Care Excellence Award
- 2023 and 2022 Patient Safety Excellence Award
- 2023 and 2022 Outstanding Patient Experience Award
- 2024 Women’s Choice Awards, Best Hospital Award and Best Hospital Awards for:
- Comprehensive Breast Care
- Orthopedics
- Mammogram Imaging
- Stroke Care
- The Boston Globe and The Women’s Edge: Top 100 Women-Led Business from 2017 – 2024
- 2024, 2023 and 2022 Best Maternity Hospital by Newsweek
- 2025 Boston Magazine Top Doctors (87 Emerson Doctors)
- Human Experience Guardian of Excellence Award® (Emerson Endoscopy & Digestive Health Center)
- The College for Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME): 2024 Most Wired Hospital Level 8
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health Breastfeeding Achievement Award
- Mass General Network Excellence Award for Stroke Care
Quality Designations
- Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Blue Distinction Center+
- Maternity Care
- Bariatric Surgery
- Knee and Hip Replacement
- American Heart Association:
- Stroke Gold Plus Designation
- Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award
- Designated a Primary Stroke Center by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Coverdell Hospital National Acute Stroke Program Awards:
- Achieving Door to CT scan <= 25 minutes for at least 75% of stroke patients
- Documentation of Modified Rankin Scale greater than or = to 95%
- Coverdale Stroke Systems of Care Partnership Award
- Baby-Friendly USA Designation
- American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) Certified Program
- Optum Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence
- Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses Center of Excellence in Surgical Safety: Smoke Evacuation.
Accreditations
- The Joint Commission:
- Hospital and Home Care Accreditation
- Primary Stroke Center Advanced Certification
- American College of Surgeons:
- National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC)
- Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP)
- American College of Radiology:
- Breast Imaging Center of Excellence
- CT Scan
- MRI: General MRI, Head, Spine, Body, MSK, MRA and Breast MRI
- Nuclear Medicine
- PET
- Ultrasound: Breast Ultrasound, General Ultrasound, Obstetrical, Gynecological, Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy
- Mammography: General Mammography and Stereotactic Breast Biopsy
- American Association of Blood Banks
- College of American Pathologists
- Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Accreditation Review
- Intersocietal Accreditation Commission: Superficial Venous Evaluation and Management, Extracranial Cerebrovascular, Peripheral Venous and Peripheral Arterial Testing
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