Awards and accreditations.

By assuring exemplary clinical performance and exceptional care, the team at ECU Health delivers award-winning service every day. Driven by our mission, teams of talented and caring professionals gather every day across our system with you in mind. Our common purpose and passion is centered on you and your health care needs.
With laser focus, we work tirelessly to ensure that you have access to safe, effective and high-quality care when you need it. This list of awards and accreditations illustrates our unwavering commitment to our mission of improving the health and well-being those we serve.
Featured Award

Magnet Recognition Program®
For the second time, ECU Health Medical Center has earned Magnet Recognition — the highest national honor for nursing excellence. The Magnet Recognition Program®, a designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), means the very best care, delivered by nurses who are supported to be the very best they can be.
Past Awards
- Get With the Guidelines: Silver: Resuscitation – ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital
- AAAHC Re-accreditation- East Carolina Endoscopy Center
- Top 500 of the 2016 HomeCare Elite
- Vizient Excellence: Quality Leadership Performance
- 1in9 Grant
- U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” – ECU Health Medical Center ranked “high performing” in diabetes & endocrinology, gastroenterology & GI, nephrology, pulmonology and urology
- Gold-Level Beacon Award for Excellence – Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville, NC
- AASM Sleep center Program Re-accreditation – ECU Health Medical Center Sleep Center
- Quit-Tobacco Gold Star
- Nutrition Gold Apple Award
- Physical Activity Golden Medal
- NC Prevention Partners Excellence Recognition
- NCBCE Teachers@Work Program Partnership
- Get With the Guidelines: Gold Plus: Heart Failure – East Carolina Heart Institute at ECU Health Medical Center
- HEALTHCAREfirst Hospice Honors Elite Award – ECU Health Home Health and Hospice
- Board Quality Leadership Award
- MBSAQIP Comprehensive Center Re-accreditation – ECU Health Medical Center
- CMS Five-Star Patient Experience – ECU Health Home Health and Hospice
- NCQC Administrative Leader Patient and Family Advisor Champion Award – Kathy Dutton
- Outstanding Patient Family Advisory Award – Dave Galloway and Dorothea Handron
- Get With the Guidelines: Platinum Performance Achievement Award – ECU Health Medical Center
- Primary Stroke Center Recertification – ECU Health Medical Center
- NAPBC Cancer Center Full Accreditation Designation – Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center (LWJCC)
- UHMS Wound Healing Center Accreditation – ECU Health Wound Healing Center – Greenville
- BFHI Baby Friendly USA Birth Facility – ECU Health Medical Center
- ACLF: Community Hospital Center of Excellence- Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center (LWJCC)
- CEO Cancer Gold Standard Re-accredidation
- STS Three Star Rating for Coronary Artery Bypass and Aortic Valve Surgeries – The East Carolina Heart Institute at ECU Health Medical Center
- NANN Navigator Award – Dr. Shakira Henderson
- SCPC Chest Pain Center Accreditation – ECU Health Medical Center
- “Most Wired” Health Systems – ECU Health
- Mother-Baby Award for Outpatient Healthcare Clinics – ECU Health Women’s Care – Edenton, ECU Health Women’s Care – Edenton (Broad Street) and ECU Health Pediatrics – Edenton
- NCIOM Appointment
- School Nurse Program 20th Anniversary – ECU Health Medical Center
- Infant Safe Sleep Hospital Model of Excellence – The ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital at ECU Health Medical Center
- HealthStream Excellence through Insight Award for “Overall Patient Experience in Outpatient—Same Day Surgery Unit” – ECU Health SurgiCenter
- American Association for Respiratory Care Presentation – Respiratory Care Services at ECU Health Medical Center
- HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model: Stage 6 Designation – All ECU Health Physicians physician practices and clinics
- 2014 – HealthStream Excellence through Insight Award for “Overall Patient Experience in Outpatient—Same Day Surgery Unit” – Vidant Health SurgiCenter
- 2014 – American Association for Respiratory Care Presentation – Respiratory Care Services at ECU Health Medical Center
- 2012 – HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model: Stage 6 Designation – All ECU Health Physicians physician practices and clinics