Awards History

Below is a brief outline of awards and recognitions received by Sharp HealthCare. For more in depth information about current awards, please visit Awards and Recognitions.

2012

  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Rating — Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center's Birch Patrick Convalescent Center
  • eHealthcare Leadership Silver Award for Best Patient Access and Convenience — mySharp
  • eHealthcare Leadership Gold Award for Best Intranet, Gold Award for Best Overall Internet Site, Gold Award for Best Mobile Communications and eHealth Organizational Commitment Award — Sharp HealthCare and Sharp.com
  • Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine's 2012 Most Wired – Sharp HealthCare
  • American Hospital Association Circle of Life Award – Sharp HealthCare and Sharp HospiceCare
  • Associated General Contractors of America National Design Excellence Award – Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
  • Design-Build Institute of America Regional Award – Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
  • HealthGrades Outstanding Patient Experience Award – Sharp Coronado Hospital
  • American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award – Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • Becker's Hospital Review's "100 Greatest Hospitals" list – Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • HealthExecNews.com's "Most Beautiful Hospital in the World" – Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • Planetree Patient-Centered Hospital – Sharp Memorial Hospital

2011

  • American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Center of Excellence – Women's Imaging Center at Sharp Memorial Outpatient Pavilion
  • HealthCare IT News Where to Work: Best Hospital IT Departments winner – Sharp HealthCare IT Department
  • 2011 Healthcare Internet Hall of Fame Innovative Provider Organization Inductee – Sharp HealthCare
  • eHealthcare Leadership Platinum Award for Best Overall Internet Site, Gold Award for Best Mobile Communications and eHealth Organizational Commitment Winner – Sharp HealthCare and Sharp.com
  • San Diego Society for Human Resources Management's Crystal Winner – Sharp HealthCare's Human Resources Department
  • San Diego Union-Tribune's Best Hospital — Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • San Diego Union-Tribune's Best Medical Group — Sharp Rees-Stealy
  • California Association of Physician Groups Standards of Excellence Elite Status — Sharp Community Medical Group and Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group
  • InformationWeek 500 listing of nation's most innovative users of business technology — Sharp HealthCare
  • The Joint Commission Center of Excellence for total hip and total knee procedures — Sharp Coronado Hospital
  • HealthGrades 2011 Outstanding Patient Experience Award — Sharp Coronado Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • International Board Certified Lactation Consultant Care Award — Sharp Grossmont Hospital's Women's Health Center
  • No. 1 hospital network in California and No. 13 in nation by SDI — Sharp HealthCare
  • ENERGY STAR Award for energy-efficient hospitals — Sharp Coronado Hospital
  • Spirit of Planetree Award — Sharp Memorial Hospital caregivers
  • Press Ganey Top Improver Award — Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • Press Ganey Best Place to Practice Award — Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns

2010

  • American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines® Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award — Sharp Grossmont Hospital
  • eHealthcare Leadership Platinum Award for Best Overall Internet Site, Gold Award for Best e-business Site and finalist for eHealth Organizational Commitment — Sharp.com
  • Greystone.Net and StayWell Custom Communications Best in Class Client Bronze Awards for Best Use of Social Media and Best Method of Driving Traffic to Website — Sharp.com
  • Department of Health and Human Services's Gold Medal of Honor — Sharp Memorial Hospital Organ Transplantation Program
  • Sodexo Spirit of Caring Award — Sharp Grossmont Hospital Landscaping Program
  • San Diego Union-Tribune's Best Medical Group — Sharp Rees-Stealy
  • San Diego Union-Tribune's Best Hospital — Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines Silver Performance Achievement Award for Cardiac Care — Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
  • National Accreditation Program for Breast Center's three-year designation as accredited breast centers — The David and Donna Long Center for Cancer Treatment at Sharp Grossmont Hospital and The Breast Cancer Center at the Sharp Memorial Hospital Cancer Institute
  • InformationWeek 500 listing of nation's most innovative users of business technology — Sharp HealthCare
  • Soliant Health's "Most Beautiful Hospital in America" — Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • American Hospital Association's Circle of Life Citation of Honor — Sharp HospiceCare
  • Planetree Patient-Center Hospital Redesignation — Sharp Coronado Hospital (first in nation)
  • College of Surgeons' Trauma Quality Improvement Program's top 20 percent in categories of mortality — Sharp Memorial Hospital's Trauma Center
  • Anthem Blue Cross and PacifiCare's California's Top-Performing Physician Group — Sharp Rees-Stealy
  • Blue Shield of California's Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care® — Sharp Grossmont Hospital
  • San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)'s Best New Program working to reduce traffic congestion and cut emissions — Sharp's transportation program
  • Certificate of Excellence from California Hospital Assessment and Reporting Task Force — Sharp Coronado Hospital
  • Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence® — Sharp Grossmont Hospital's Medical Intensive Care Unit and Surgical Intensive Care Unit
  • American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines awards for quality care in treating patients — Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, Sharp Coronado Hospital, Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • Blue Distinction Centers for spine surgery and knee and hip replacement — Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • Blue Distinction Center for knee and hip replacement — Sharp Coronado Hospital
  • No. 1 hospital network in California and No. 6 in nation by SDI — Sharp HealthCare
  • American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines—Stroke Silver Performance Award — Sharp Coronado Hospital

2009

  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Award — Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
  • 2009 Press Ganey Best Place to Practice Award — Sharp Coronado Hospital and Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns
  • American Heart Association's Gold Performance Achievement Award — Sharp Grossmont Hospital
  • 7th annual Best in Class Award by Greystone.Net in the following categories: Best Overall Website, Best Redesigned Website, Best Use of Analytics, Best Method of Driving Traffic to Site and Best Use of Cross-Media Approaches — Sharp.com
  • California Construction magazine Award of Merit — Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • No. 189 in InformationWeek magazine's 500 leading users of business technology — Sharp HealthCare
  • California Association of Physician Groups' Elite Status Designation (highest possible) — Sharp Rees-Stealy and Sharp Community medical groups
  • American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines Program's Bronze Performance Achievement Award — Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
  • Healthcare Financial Management Association's High Performance in the Revenue Cycle Award — Sharp Grossmont Hospital
  • The Joint Commission's Stroke Center Certification — Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • The San Diego Union-Tribune readers vote San Diego's "Best Hospital" — Sharp HealthCare
  • Hospitals & Health Networks magazine's "Most Wired" health care systems list — Sharp HealthCare
  • American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines Program Gold Performance Achievement Award — Sharp Grossmont Hospital
  • U.S. News & World Report's 65 Best Community Hospitals — Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • California's Best Places to Work Program — Sharp HealthCare
  • No. 1 hospital network in Southern California and No. 13 in nation by SDI — Sharp HealthCare

2008

  • eHealthcare Leadership Awards: Distinction Award for Best Web 2.0/Rich Media for a Healthcare System and Distinction Award for Best Overall Internet Site for a Healthcare System — Sharp.com
  • Spirit of Planetree awards: Evidence-Based Program Award, Laura Gilpin Kindness Award, Caregiver Award, Physician Champion Award and Pet Therapy Award — Sharp Coronado Hospital
  • Modern Healthcare's Best Places to Work in Healthcare — Sharp HealthCare
  • The San Diego Union-Tribune readers vote San Diego's "Best Hospital" and "Best Health Care Provider" — Sharp HealthCare
  • American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines Program Triple Performance Achievement Award, Gold Awards and Silver Awards — Sharp Grossmont Hospital
  • American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines Program Gold Sustained Performance Award and Bronze Initial Performance Award — Sharp Memorial Hospital
  • Hospitals & Health Networks magazine's "Most Wired" health care systems list — Sharp HealthCare
  • American Nurses Credentialing Center's MAGNET® designation — Sharp Memorial Hospital

2007

  • Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award — Sharp HealthCare
  • eHealthcare Leadership Awards: platinum for best design for a consumer health website, silver for best quality communication — Sharp.com
  • W3 Silver Award winner for creative Web excellence in health care services — Sharp.com
  • The San Diego Union-Tribune readers vote San Diego's "Best Hospital" and "Best Health Care Provider" — Sharp HealthCare
  • Hospitals & Health Networks magazine's "Most Wired" health care systems list — Sharp HealthCare
  • IDG's Computerworld list of "Best Places to Work" for IT professionals — Sharp HealthCare at No. 3
  • No. 1 "Best Integrated Health Care Network" in California and No. 18 nationally by Modern Healthcare magazine — Sharp HealthCare
  • Leapfrog Hospital Quality and Safety Survey's "Excellence in Patient Safety and Health Care Quality" — Sharp Memorial Hospital and Sharp Grossmont Hospital

2006

  • Gold Award from the California Awards for Performance Excellence program (state-level affiliate of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award) — Sharp HealthCare (first health care system recipient)
  • No. 1 "Best Integrated Health Care Network" in California and No. 22 nationally by Modern Healthcare magazine — Sharp Healthcare
  • IDG's Computerworld list of "Best Places to Work" for IT professionals — Sharp HealthCare at No. 13
  • Hospitals & Healthcare Networks magazine's "Most Wired" health care systems list — Sharp HealthCare
  • Press Ganey's Summit Award for sustaining the highest level of excellence in patient satisfaction — Sharp Coronado Hospital Emergency Department
  • The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval™ for stroke care — Sharp Grossmont Hospital
  • Leapfrog Group's "50 Exceptional US Hospitals" in Consumers Digest — Sharp Memorial Hospital at No. 25
  • "Best Overall Web Site" by Greystone.Net — Sharp.com
  • e-HealthCare Strategy and Trends' Silver Award for "Best e-Business Site" — Sharp.com's Online Appointment Center
  • Blue Cross of California's 2006 HMO Quality Scorecard program's top-performing physician group in California — Sharp Rees-Stealy

2005

  • Hospitals & Health Networks magazine's "Most Wired" health care systems list — Sharp HealthCare
  • San Diego Society for Human Resource Management's Workplace Excellence Award — Sharp HealthCare
  • California Awards for Performance Excellence program's Silver Award (state-level affiliate of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award) — Sharp HealthCare

2004

  • California Awards for Performance Excellence program's bronze-level Eureka Award (state-level affiliate of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award) — Sharp HealthCare
  • Hospitals & Health Networks magazine's "Most Wired" health care systems list — Sharp HealthCare
  • San Diego Better Business Bureau's Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics — Sharp HealthCare
  • Health Care Communicators of San Diego's Gold Award for Best Web Site Redesign — Sharp.com
  • San Diego Business Journal's "Best Large Company to Work for in San Diego" — Sharp HealthCare

2003

  • Hospitals & Health Networks magazine's "Most Wired" health care systems list — Sharp HealthCare
  • Greystone.Net's "Best in Class Spanish Web Site" — Sharpenespanol.com
  • Greystone.Net's "Best in Class Online Physician Finder" — Sharp.com
  • Press Ganey's Compass Award for Improvements in Patient Satisfaction — Sharp Coronado Hospital
  • One of top 10 places in the U.S. to have a baby by FitPregnancy magazine — Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns