Awards and Recognition
2012
- Scripps Green Hospital was recognized by Thomson Reuters, for the third consecutive year and fifth time overall, as one of the top teaching hospitals in the nation
- Becker’s Hospital Review recognized Scripps President and CEO, Chris Van Gorder, as one of the most powerful people in health care
- Scripps Health was named one of Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Places to Work
- Scripps Health web site ranked second among the 25 best in health care web sites in the nation
- Scripps Health President and CEO, Chris Van Gorder, named volunteer of the year
- Elearning! media group named Scripps one of 60 best companies for learning
2011
Clinical Quality
- U.S. News & World Report’s 2011-2012 Best Hospitals rankings named the combined heart programs of Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and Scripps Green Hospital among the best in the nation for cardiology and heart surgery.
- Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Green Hospital, Scripps Mercy Hospital and Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas were recognized for high performance in 12 specialties in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals metro area rankings.
- Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla was recognized as a top performer on key quality measures by The Joint Commission.
- U.S. News & World Report named 36 physicians from Scripps Health as “Top Doctors.”
- Scripps Green Hospital was named by Thomson Reuters as one of the nation’s top teaching hospitals in their 100 Top Hospitals list.
- Scripps Encinitas and Scripps Green received a Gold Plus award from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get with the Guidelines program.
- Scripps Mercy Hospital’s Chula Vista campus was certified as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission. Now, all five Scripps hospital campuses are certified as Primary Stroke Centers.
- Patients rank Scripps Clinic No. 1 in the San Diego region and No. 2 in the state for overall health care, according to a 2011 report from the California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative (CCHRI). Scripps Coastal Medical Group ranked No. 3 in the San Diego region and No. 8 in the state.
- Scripps Green Hospital become the first civilian hospital in San Diego County to earn accreditation in radiation oncology from the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO).
- The Scripps Cancer Center received a Commission on Cancer re-accreditation (MCIP goal) for three years. Scripps is currently one of only two hospitals in California to have this accreditation and received five areas of commendations.
- Scripps Health Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at Green Hospital received re-accreditation from FACT (Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy)
Clinical Innovation
- Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute received $250,000 grant by the McKesson Foundation to support wireless health monitoring.
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $7.9 million grant to the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) of San Diego and Sangamo BioSciences of Richmond, Calif. to conduct the nation’s first-ever, heart-based “disease in a dish” research.
- For orthopedics, Scripps received the Nicolas Andry Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons. This is for significant contributions to research into how forces are distributed in the knee, via Scripps e-knee research.
Workplace
- Scripps Health was named to Fortune magazine’s list of America’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Scripps ranked No. 37 on this year’s list
- Working Mother – 2011 List of American’s 100 Best Companies
- Scripps was named to Becker’s Hospital Review list of the Best Places to Work in Health Care.
Leadership
- Scripps President and CEO Chris Van Gorder, was named No. 18 on Modern Healthcare’s annual ranking of the nation’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. (Dr. Eric Topol was listed as #69)
Financial Stewardship
- Fitch and Standford & Poors Rating Services upgraded the Scripps Health credit rating to AA- and Moody’s reaffirmed Scripps’ existing A1 rating.
Medical Education
- Scripps Health received its accreditation with commendation as a provider of continuing medical education by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).