Awards and Honors
Women's Choice Award for Obstetrics
2025
Wound Care Center For Distinction
2023
General Surgery, #1 Hospital in the State
2024
General Surgery, Top 10% Hospital – South
2023
Overall Surgical Care, Top 10% Hospital in the State
2023
Overall Surgical Care, Top 10% Hospital – South
2023
Overall Surgical Care, Top 10% Hospital in the State
2023
Overall Surgical Care, #1 Hospital in the State
2023
Best Hospitals, Emergency Care
2023
The award signifies that KDMC is in the Top 3% of 4,729 U.S. hospitals
offering emergency care services.
Best Hospitals, Patient Safety
2023
The award signifies that KDMC is in the top 5% of 4,729 U.S. hospitals
for patient safety in safe surgery practices and lower rates for complications and infections.
‘A’ Grade Hospital Safety Score
Spring/Fall 2021, Spring/Fall 2022, Spring 2023
King’s Daughters Medical Center receives an A Grade from Leapfrog
Agency for Hospital Safety.
www.hospitalsafetygrade.org
KDMC a Top Performing CQM Network Hospital
2022
KDMC is among the highest performing Network Hospitals for the initial
measurement year, emphasizing clinical quality and outcomes. Read the
press release.
CDC Full Recognition for Diabetes Prevention Program
2021
This designation is reserved for programs that have effectively delivered
a quality, evidence-based program that meets all of the standards for
CDC recognition.
KDMC Wound Care, Center of Excellence, Distinction
2016, 2017, 2019
The King’s Daughters Wound Care Center has achieved patient satisfaction
rates higher than 92 percent and a healing rate of at least 91 percent
in less than 30 median days to heal, for a minimum of two consecutive
years. The Center was awarded this prestigious honor by Healogics, the
nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. Out of
340 eligible Centers, 268 were honored with this award.
Baby-Friendly Certification
2019-2024
King’s Daughters Medical Center has received prestigious international
recognition as a Designated Baby-Friendly birth facility. This award recognizes
hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimal level of care for
breastfeeding mothers and their babies. Based on the
Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, this prestigious international award recognizes birth facilities that
offer breastfeeding mothers the information, confidence, and skills needed
to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their babies.
Best Places to Work – Modern Healthcare
2012-2015, 2017-2020, 2022
In 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022 King’s
Daughters Medical Center was named a Modern Healthcare Best Places to
Work. The magazine’s annual Best Places to Work in Healthcare program
recognizes employers for creating workplaces in health care that enable
employees to perform at their optimum level to provide patients and customers
with the best possible patient care and services.
HealthCare’s Most Wired® Winner
2016, 2017
The 2016/2017 Most Wired® survey and benchmarking study is a leading industry barometer measuring
information technology (IT) use and adoption among hospitals nationwide.
The survey of 680 participants, representing an estimated 2,146 hospitals—more
than 34 percent of all hospitals in the U.S.—examines how organizations
are leveraging IT to improve performance for value-based health care in
the areas of infrastructure, business and administrative management, quality
and safety, and clinical integration.
DNV-GL ISO 9001 Certification
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
DNV-GL, KDMC’s accrediting organization, presented the hospital with
the ISO 9001, an internationally recognized certification that is also
known as the Gold Seal for KDMC’s quality program.
Hurst Gold Standard of Nursing
2017
King’s Daughter’s Medical Center is a winner of the Hurst Gold
Standard of Nursing Award for achieving excellence in quality nursing.
This award is given to hospital nursing staffs that achieve top tier weighted
scores, significantly above the national average on key quality indicators
from HCAHPS surveys specific to hospital nursing services.
Best Hospital, Orthopedics
2017
The Women’s Choice Award recipients for Best Hospitals for Orthopedics
are determined first by identifying hospitals that provided comprehensive
orthopedic services, indicating a minimum number of arthroscopy, joint
replacement and spine surgery services, as well as offering onsite MRI
and physical therapy. Those full service hospitals were then judged on
their HCAHPS results for patient recommendations and postoperative recovery
instructions, measures that are very important to women in choosing a hospital.
Best Hospital, Obstetrics
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Best Hospital, Patient Experience
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Patient Safety Excellence Award – Healthgrades
2015
