Awards and Recognition

• Banner Health
• Arizona
• Alaska

• Colorado
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• Wyoming

• Individual and team achievements

Banner Health

• One of Top 10 Health Systems in the U.S.
• 2009 recipient of the Gallup Great Workplace Award
• Named as One of the Best Places to Work for three consecutive years.
• One of Top Ten of Integrated Health Networks
• One of Top 25 Connected Facilities
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Banner Alzheimer's Institute 

• Pierre Tariot MD, of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, published in the The New England Journal of Medicine on  possible Alzheimer’s medications.
• Eric Reiman, MD, of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, published in Science on genes and memory.
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Banner Baywood Medical Center

Banner Boswell Medical Center

• Stroke Center nationally certified
• Recognized for preventing mortality
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Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center

• Recognized for preventing mortality
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Banner Desert Medical Center 

• Named to the 2009 Community Value Index® Five-Star hospitals list.
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Banner Estrella Medical Center

Banner Gateway Medical Center

• Ranked number one among small hospitals by Ranking Arizona.
• Won an Award of Excellence for Healthcare Design from Modern Healthcare magazine
• Received green award from Ascent Healthy Hospitals
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Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center

• Received Magnet™ status from American Nurses Association.
• Named one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report in Diabetes and Endocrinology, Gastrology, Geriatrics, Heart Care and Surgery, Gynecology and Kidney Disease.
• Received Joint Commission certification as a Primary Stroke Center
• Named one of the Top 100 Hospitals to Work For by Nursing Professionals magazine.
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Banner Heart Hospital

• Named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® for cardiovascular care by Thomson Reuters for three years in a row.
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Banner Thunderbird Medical Center

• Received 2008 WestMarc
  award for for Level III NICU
• Received the United Blood Services Hero Award – Valentine for Life Award
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Page Hospital

• Expansion and remodel received RED -Real Estate and Development award 
• 2009 Premier Supply Chain Excellence
• 2008 United Way Community Partner
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McKee Medical Center  

• Received the national Premier Award for Quality for outstanding patient care and setting the standard in clinical excellence nationwide.
• Named an Epicenter for robotic surgery
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North Colorado Medical Center  

• Received Magnet Status from the American Nurses Association.
• Intensive Care Unit receives national recognition 
• Received National Bariatric Center of Excellence Designation from the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
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East Morgan County Hospital

• Named Business of the Year by the Brush Area Chamber of Commerce.
• Earned the state’s highest ranking in Colorado HCAHPS
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Fairbanks Memorial Hospital

• Received the 2007 Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Care Achievement Award
• Received the 2008 Vista Award for its new outpatient imaging center.
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Ogallala Community Hospital

• Received the Recognition of Quality Award from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska in 2007,  2008 and 2009.
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Banner Churchill Community Hospital

• Most improved hospital in acute myocardial infarction care -- Nevada Hospital Association, 2008.
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Community Hospital

• Received the Commitment to Quality Award from the Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Care Foundation.
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Platte County Memorial Hospital

• Received the Quality Achievement Award from the Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Care Foundation.
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Individual Achievements 

• Banner Health President and CEO Peter S. Fine named IT CEO of the Year
• Joseph Rogers, Ph.D., a researcher and founder of the Banner Sun Health Research Institute, who awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Research award. 
  Ron Bunnell, Banner CFO and Executive Vice President,  named CFO of the year.
• Marilyn Schock named Woman of Distinction
• Carol Vanetti, MD, received national medical leadership award
• Dave Dexter, CEO of Laboratory Sciences of Arizona/Sonora Quest, was recognized with Arizona Corporate Excellence Award.
• Banner's employee Web site received a Silver Award from ehealthcare Strategy and Trends.