Awards and Designations


Joint Commission Certifications

Several programs at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital were awarded Joint Commission Disease-Specific Certifications in September 2011. These include:

Consumer Choice Awards

Healthcare consumers ranked Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and Carilion New River Valley Medical Center as the “most- preferred” hospitals in the Roanoke and New River valleys, respectively, earning 2011-12 Consumer Choice Awards from the National Research Corporation. Of the 3,200 hospitals named by consumers, CRMH and CNRV were among the 300 that received awards.

Magnet Status Hospital

Carilion Roanoke Memorial and Community hospitals are designated as Magnet facilities by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Magnet designation is widely accepted as the gold standard of nursing and patient care. Learn more about Magnet >

Other Awards and Designations

  • 2011 - Top 100 Integrated Healthcare Networks (47th) by SDI Health
  • 2011 Quality of Care awards from Professional Research Consultants:
    • Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital: five stars, inpatient cardiac/telemetry services
    • Carilion New River Valley Medical Center: five stars, inpatient OB/GYN services
    • Carilion Giles Community Hospital: four stars, emergency department services
  • 2011 Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence - American Association of Critical Care Nurses (Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital)
  • 2011 Most Wired healthcare organizations - Hospital & Health Networks
  • 2010 Gold Seal of Approval by The Joint Commission for stroke care and orthopaedics (Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital)
  • 2010 Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence - American Association of Critical Care Nurses (Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital)
  • 2010 Most Wired and Most Wireless - Hospitals & Health Networks
  • 2010 HomeCare Elite™ award (top 25 percent of home care providers)
  • 2010 Top 20 list of Most Beautiful Hospitals (Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital)
  • 2008/2009 Consumer Choice Award for Most Preferred Hospital (Carilion Roanoke Memorial and Carilion Roanoke Community hospitals) by the National Research Corporation
  • 2009 Most Wired -- Hospitals & Health Networks -- read news release >
  • 2009 CIO 100 Awards - CIO magazine
  • 2009 CEO-IT Achievement Award -- Modern Healthcare magazine
  • 2008 HHS Medal of Honor for Organ Donation
  • 2008 Thomson Reuters Top 100 Performance Improvement Leader Award (Carilion New River Valley)
  • 2008 Premier Annual Supply Chain Excellence Awards
  • 2008 Training Top 125 (Superior Workforce Training)
  • 2008 Baxter -- AACN Excellence in Patient Safety
  • 2007 Top 50 hospitals for orthopaedic care -- U.S. News and World Report
  • 2006-07 HomeCare Elite (Radford and Tazewell)
  • Top 100 Integrated Delivery Systems -- Verispan (as published in Modern Healthcare)
  • 2006 Most Wired and Most Wireless -- Hospitals & Health Networks
  • 2005 Solucient Top 100 Performance Improvement Leaders Award (Carilion New River Valley)
  • 2002 National Quality Healthcare Award – National Quality Forum (formerly the National Committee for Quality Healthcare)
  • Blue Centers for Bariatric Surgery

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