The Excellence Award is the highest level of recognition presented to organizations that have demonstrated management excellence through their practices and achievements. Winners at this advanced level are outstanding examples of high performance organizations, exhibiting world-class processes that serve as role models for others. The program uses the Criteria for Performance Excellence established by the Baldrige National Quality Program as the evaluation tool.

For more information on the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence , contact Katie Rawls , president, at the organization’s Nashville office at (800) 453-6474 or katie.rawls@tncpe.org.

For more information about Mountain States Health Alliance contact Tamera Fields, Director of Quality at (423) 431-6104 or fieldsta@msha.com.

The nation’s 100 Most Wired hospitals show better outcomes in four key areas: mortality rates, patient safety measures from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), core measures from Hospital Compare and average length of stay. Based on analysis of the ninth annual Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study results, hospitals are embracing technology as a key tool for healthcare quality improvements.

The Most Wired Survey is conducted annually by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, which uses the results to name the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems. It focuses on how the nation’s hospitals use information technologies for quality, customer service, public health and safety, business processes and workforce issues.

Magnet Hospital designation is the prestigious award for recognition of nursing excellence presented by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a division of the American Nurses Association.

On its first attempt, Johnson City Medical Center (JCMC) has earned international recognition by being named a Magnet Hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), an arm of the American Nurses Association. JCMC is the first hospital in Tennessee to have earned the award. JCMC is the flagship hospital in the eight-facility Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA) system.