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 third 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.
ECU Health System Awards
GOLD PLUS
Get With the Guidelines
ECU Health Medical Center: Heart Failure
GOLD
Get With the Guidelines
ECU Health Medical Center: Mission Lifeline NSTEMI
GOLD
Get With the Guidelines
ECU Health Medical Center: Mission Lifeline STEMI
SILVER PLUS AND TARGET
Get With the Guidelines
ECU Health Medical Center: Stroke Honor Roll
SILVER
Get With the Guidelines
ECU Health Medical Center: Resuscitation
BRONZE
Get With the Guidelines
ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital: Stroke
BRONZE
Get With the Guidelines
ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital: Stroke
BRONZE
Get With the Guidelines
ECU Health Duplin Hospital: Stroke
The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval
Advanced Certification for Comprehensive Stroke Centers
Surgical Review Corporation Center of Excellence
ECU Health Medical Center – Robotic Surgery and Minimally Invasive Surgery
Press Ganey Human Experience Guardian of Excellence
ECU Health Bertie Hospital
National Accreditation – Commission on Cancer
ECU Health Medical Center
National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers
ECU Health Medical Center
Intersocietal Accreditation Commission
ECU Health Medical Center Echocardiography Laboratory – 20-year Bronze Accreditation
Silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence
Great 100 Nurses
Heart Check-mark
Advanced Certification for Comprehensive Stroke Centers
ACRP Innovation in Workforce Development Award
Society of Thoracic 3-Star Rating
HEALTHCAREfirst
Hospice Honors
Past Awards
- Rho Rho Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.: Annual Achievement Award — ECU Health Family Medicine-Windsor
- Get With The Guidelines Awards
- ECU Health Beaufort Hospital: Stroke Gold Plus and Target Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- ECU Health Chowan Hospital: Stroke Gold Plus and Target Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- ECU Health Duplin: Stroke Silver Plus and Target Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- ECU Health Edgecombe: Hospital Stroke Gold Plus and Target Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- ECU Health North: Stroke Silver Plus and Target Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital: Stroke Gold Plus and Target Stroke Honor Roll and Target Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- Outer Banks Health Hospital: Stroke Gold Plus and Target Stroke Honor Roll Elite
- The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Public Health: North Carolina Maternity Center Breastfeeding-Friendly Designation — ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie and ECU Health Duplin Hospital in Kenansville
- Joint Commission: Primary Stroke Center — ECU Health North Hospital Designated
- Health Grades: Top 100 hospital for general surgery — ECU Health Medical Center
- Lifeline STEMI, Lifeline NSTEMI Awards from American Heart Association — ECU Health Medical Center
- Get With The Guidelines awards — ECU Health Medical Center — Silver: Adult Resuscitation, Gold Plus and Target: Stroke Honor Roll, Gold Plus and Target: Heart Failure, Gold: Pediatric Resuscitation
- 2019-2020 Employer of Excellence by AAPA’s Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management — ECU Health Medical Center
- Magnet® Recognition — ECU Health Medical Center
- Advanced Certification for Comprehensive Stroke Centers — ECU Health Medical Center
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses: Silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence — ECU Health Medical Center Neuroscience Intermediate Unit
- Becker’s Healthcare: Top 100 hospitals for specialized neuroscience and spine programs — ECU Health Medical Center neurosurgical team
- Home Health and Hospice receives Hospice Honors award from Hospice Honors
- The National Committee for Quality Assurance — Patient-Centered Care: ECU Health Physicians
- Acute Stroke Ready certification — ECU Health Beaufort, ECU Health Chowan, ECU Health Edgecombe and ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan hospitals
- American Heart Association awards — ECU Health Medical Center earns Gold Plus Achievement and Honor Roll for heart failure; Silver Achievement – Resuscitation; Silver Receiving – STEMI; and Silver – NSTEMI
- American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program — ECU Health Medical Center
- American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® awards – ECU Health Duplin Hospital, ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital, ECU Health Medical Center, and ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital
- Innovation in Workforce Award
- Top Agency of the 2017 ABILITY | HomeCare Elite – Home Health and Hospice offices in Washington and Windsor
- Excellence in Breastfeeding — ECU Health Women’s Care—Tarboro
- 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-accreditation
- 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