Awards & Accreditations
Central Peninsula Hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission. We voluntarily submit to evaluations of our compliance with nationwide hospital standards on a continuing basis. Joint Commission accreditation is your assurance that Central Peninsula Hospital practices continuous quality monitoring to provide you with quality health care.
The Joint Commission is the nation’s leading and most widely recognized healthcare performance improvement organization, responsible for setting quality standards, evaluating an organization’s performance, and providing an educative experience designed to foster continuous improvement. More than 22,000 health care programs worldwide are accredited and certified.
The Gold Seal of Approval® is a nationally recognized distinction voluntarily earned by a select set of healthcare providers. An organization that achieves The Gold Seal of Approval® shows its commitment to holding itself accountable to a high bar for quality and safety for those they serve.
CPH Bone & Joint Center has three Joint Commission Certifications:
- Spine Surgery (May 2023),
- Joint Replacement – Knee (Recertified March 2024)
- Joint Replacement – Hip (Recertified March 2024).
The Sleep Lab is accredited through the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). Since 1977, the AASM Standards for Accreditation have been the gold standard by which the medical community and the public evaluate sleep medicine facilities. Achieving AASM accreditation demonstrates a sleep medicine provider’s commitment to high quality, patient-centered care through adherence to these standards, ensuring that the highest quality of care is delivered to patients with sleep disorders.
LifeCenter Northwest Honors Central Peninsula Hospital with Two 2023 Achievement Awards:
The Honoring Donor Decisions Award and the Collaborative Family Support Award.
The Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation program at Central Peninsula Hospital is certified by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). Founded in 1985, AACVPR is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the mission of reducing morbidity, mortality and disability from cardiovascular and pulmonary disease through education, prevention, rehabilitation, research and disease management. Central to the core mission is improving the quality of life for patients and their families. Learn more about AACVPR at www.aacvpr.org.
American College of Radiology Accredited
When you see the gold seal of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Accreditation prominently displayed in our Imaging Department our patients can be sure that we’re a facility that meets the highest level of imaging quality and radiation safety. To achieve the ACR Gold Standard of Accreditation, our facility’s personnel qualifications, equipment requirements, quality assurance and quality control procedures have gone through a rigorous review process to meet specific benchmarks. It is important for our patients to know that every aspect of the ACR Accreditation process is overseen by board-certified, expert radiologists and medical physicists in advanced diagnostic imaging. The ACR is the largest and oldest imaging accreditation body in the United States and a professional organization of 34,000 physicians.
Get With the Guidelines:
The Get With the Guidelines – Rural Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Silver for 2024.
The American Heart Association presents the Get With The Guidelines® – Coronary Artery Disease Rural Recognition Silver award for implementation of quality treatment, care coordination for heart attack patients.
The Get With The Guidelines – Coronary Artery Disease Rural Recognition award is earned by hospitals that demonstrate a commitment to treating patients according to the most up-to-date research-based guidelines for STEMI care as outlined by the American Heart Association.
The Get With the Guidelines – Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Referring Bronze.
The American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® – Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Referring Center Bronze recognition for its commitment to offering rapid, research-based care to people experiencing a specific type of heart attack known as an ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), known to be more severe and dangerous than other types of heart attacks.
Recognition as a STEMI Referring Center is designed to showcase hospitals of every size on the front lines of care that do not have 24/7 cardiac catheterization lab availability but work in collaboration with emergency medical services to ensure patients receive guideline-directed STEMI and NSTEMI care.
