Accolades
Children's Memorial named one of the nation's best in Child Magazine
January 2007 — Children's Memorial Hospital
has been named one of the top 20 children's hospitals in the country according
to Child magazine's 2007 comprehensive survey
of top pediatric hospitals. Children's Memorial ranked number 18
out of seventy-six children's hospitals surveyed, and number 10 in the pediatric
subspecialty, Pulmonary. No other children's hospital in Illinois made the
list.
Children's Memorial Hospital's Web site wins three Greystone awards and two
2006 eHealthcare Leadership awards
November 2006 —The hospital's Web site received five awards
that were announced at the 2006 Tenth Annual Healthcare Internet Conference
held in Atlanta in November.
The three Greystone awards are a “gold” 2006 Greystone.Net Best In Class
Award for Best Web Site Interactivity; a “silver” award for Most
Innovative Use of Technology for a Web Site; and another “silver” for
Most Innovative Web Site .
Children's Memorial's two awards from Health Care Communications are a “gold”
award in eHealthcare Leadership for Best Staff Recruitment among
hospitals in the 200-399 bed range and a “distinction” for Best
e-Business in the same bed range. More here about the awards.
Children's Memorial Named to “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers”
September 2006 —For the second consecutive year Working
Mother magazine has named Children's Memorial Hospital as one of the nation's
“100 Best Companies for Working Mothers” in its annual roundup of family
friendly companies. Children's Memorial is one of nine companies in Illinois to
make the list.
Companies answer a questionnaire covering more than 500 items and are
selected based on items such as flexibility, exemplary company culture, family
friendly programs and number of women in management positions. In its profile of
Children's Memorial, the magazine highlighted the hospital's flexible
scheduling, new parent programs, adoption benefits and child care
assistance.
Children's Memorial accredited by the American College of Radiology
March 2006 — The American College of Radiology
accredited Children's Memorial in MRI and granted re-accreditation in ultrasound
for all sites. Accreditation is achieved through a strenuous application process
which is reviewed by a panel of radiologists (blinded) for quality assurance and
controls. Few sites receive this honor. More about Medical Imaging here.
Children's Memorial again re-designated with Magnet status
November 2005 — Children's Memorial was
reconfirmed as having received this award again for nursing excellence. Less than 3 percent of U.S.
hospitals have achieved and/or maintained this distinction.
Children's Memorial became the nation's first pediatric hospital to receive
the coveted Magnet Award from the American Nurses Credentialing Center in
December, 2001. Magnet status recognizes the high ratio of registered nurses in
the clinical mix, a nurse executive at board level, available education courses,
professional autonomy and a strong clinical career ladder. More here.
Children's Memorial designated a Pediatric Critical Care Center
August 2005 — The Illinois Department of Public Health
(IDPH) and the Illinois Emergency Medical Services for
Children awarded a certificate of recognition to Children's Memorial, which was
designated as a Pediatric Critical Care Center for its high level of specialized
critical care to pediatric patients. There are currently five PCCC hospitals
providing care to Illinois children. More about our Division of Critical
Care here.
Children's Memorial included in Chicago magazine's 25 Best Places to
Work list
October 2004 — Children's Memorial Hospital has been named
as one of the metropolitan area's best employers by Chicago magazine in its 25
Best Places to Work issue. Children's Memorial ranks 9th out of more than 350
companies that applied. Chicago magazine, the largest city monthly magazine in
the U.S., in its October 2004 issue honors 25 companies from a wide geographical
area and a variety of industries that excelled in all of the following areas:
benefits and compensation practices, time off, personnel policies, turnover
data, and an opinion survey of a random sample of employees. “Our placement on
the list is clear proof that we are making real progress toward our goal of
being one of the best places to work in the country,” said Patrick M. Magoon,
president and CEO, Children's Memorial Hospital. “While benefits programs and
human resource policies contribute to making an organization an employer of
choice, our staff's commitment to our patients and our mission truly makes
Children's Memorial special.”
Children's Memorial receives InfoWorld 100 award
January 2004 — Children's Memorial has been recognized as
one of the 2003 InfoWorld 100 thanks to its use of SPSS Inc.'s (NASDAQ:SPSS)
data mining and text mining solutions. The InfoWorld 100 is an annual award that
honors organizations that have demonstrated the most creative use of
cutting-edge technologies to further the achievement of their business goals.
According to Eric Bremer, PhD, director of the brain tumor research program
at Children's Memorial Hospital and associate professor at Northwestern
University's Feinberg School of Medicine, "Leveraging SPSS' data and text mining
tools is helping us to realize one of our main goals, the development of a gene
expression 'knowledge base' for pediatric brain tumors. Ultimately, we hope that
this will result in more effective treatments by enabling us to predict how a
patient may respond to a therapy."
Children's Memorial receives Ruth M.
Rothstein
Outstanding Partner
Award
November 2002 — The Chicago/Cook County Community Health
Council recognized Children's Memorial as an exemplary community partner with
long-standing leadership and commitment to improving the health status of
Chicago and Cook County residents.
Health magazine recognizes Children's Memorial Hospital
July 2002 — Our hospital is named a great place to work,
especially for women Health magazine's July/August issue named Children's
Memorial Hospital among the best companies to work for, especially for women.
The hospital was named as a runner-up to 10 elite firms that go above and beyond
for employees, providing excellent health insurance, adoption assistance, and
helping to balance life and work. One of the benefits cited was the hospital's
employee health program that includes Pilates, Tai Chi, yoga, health seminars
and weight loss programs.
Children's Memorial recognized for child abuse prevention
March 2002 — The Child Maltreatment Awareness Project,
headed by Susan Fuchs, MD, of the Department of Emergency Medicine, and
Emergency Medical Services Coordinator Peter Lazzara, was honored with a Program
Excellence Award by Prevent Child Abuse Illinois in a March ceremony at the
state capitol rotunda in Springfield. The project educates "pre-hospital
providers" such as emergency medical technicians and firemen about how to
recognize child maltreatment and was launched with support from the Office of
Child Advocacy. By raising awareness the project aims to reduce injury and
mortality from abuse and neglect.
Last year, nearly 1,700 pre-hospital providers benefited from this project.
Children's Memorial is now collaborating with the Chicago Department of Public
Health's "Safe Start" initiative to conduct training with the Chicago Police
Department and early childhood providers. Child abuse and neglect is the second
leading cause of child injury and death in the nation for children ages one to
four.
The hospital's PALS training center is named the
best
in the nation for 2001
- 2002
January 2002 — On behalf of the hospital's Pediatric
Advanced Life Support training center, Harriet Hawkins, RN, received an award in
January 2002 from the American Heart Association for being the year's top PALS
training center in the nation.
Children's Memorial Hospital nurses win
prestigious
national Magnet
award
December 2001 —
Children's Memorial Hospital, Department of Nursing, was awarded the designation
as the first ANCC Magnet Hospital in Illinois and the first freestanding
children's hospital in the nation to receive the Magnet Award for Nursing
Excellence. More here.
Children's Memorial Hospital recognized as one of "America's Healthiest
Companies"
August 2001 — Named
as a 2001 Well Workplace Winner, Children's Memorial Hospital is recognized as
one of "America's Healthiest Companies." The "Gold" award recently announced by
the Worksite Wellness Council of Illinois demonstrates senior management's
commitment to wellness, team efforts to plan and develop a program, operations
support and employee response through program participation.