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Awards & Recognition

2012 awards and recognition

  • Best Places to WorkNamed a "Best Place to Work" for the seventh time by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal

  • St. Joseph's Hospital is named to the list of 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals in the U.S. by Truven Health Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters)

  • Woodwinds Health Campus named one of the 2012 Top 100 Hospitals in the U.S. by Truven Health Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters)

  • HealthEast recognized for excellence by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners and International Lactation Consultant Association

2011 awards and recognition

  • Woodwinds ranked a “Best Hospital” in the Twin Cities by U.S. News Media & World Report’s 2011-12 Best Hospitals rankings

  • 2011 HealthPartners Innovation in Health Care Awards:
    • Bethesda Hospital: Ventilator Liberation, An Innovative Interdisciplinary Model for Patient Care
    • HealthEast Kidney Stone Institute: Successful Outpatient Management of Kidney Stone Disease
    • St. John's Hospital: Late Pre-Term Infant Program
  • HealthEast Physician Services received 2011 Partners in Excellence Award by HealthPartners

  • HealthEast Kidney Stone Institute recognized by Medica’s 2011 "Raising the Bar: Rewarding Innovation in Transformational Care Delivery"

  • Woodwinds received HealthGrades 2011 Outstanding Patient Experience Award™

  • Bethesda Hospital received 2011 Innovation Award by National Association of Long-Term Hospitals for Ventilator Liberation

  • St. Joseph's received Patient Safety Excellence Award by HealthGrades

  • St. John’s awarded a "Best Practice" certificate from the Advisory Board Company for communications that effectively bring essential information to nurses

  • HealthEast Clinics received Bridges to Excellence awards sponsored by Buyer's Health Care Action Group

  • Bethesda Hospital received Celebrate Business Success Award from the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce

  • Bethesda Hospital's Respiratory Care program received Quality Respiratory Care Recogntion from the American Association for Respiratory Care

  • HealthEast Care System received the 2011 Gallup Great Workplace Award

  • Best Places to Work –  from the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

    HealthEast achieved the award based on:
    • Great results from hundreds of employees who completed the Business Journal's survey
    • Low employee turnover rate
    • High employee, patient and physician satisfaction rates

2010 awards and recognition

2009 awards and recognition

  • HealthEast was named one of the "Top 10 U.S. Health Systems" by Thomson Reuters

  • Innovation of the Year in Patient Care award from the Minnesota Hospital Association - for HealthEast Maternity Care's successful Perinatal Safety program

  • Woodwinds was named a 2009 Best Minnesota Hospital Workplace by the Minnesota Hospital Association for it's holistic model of care and healing environment for staff and patients

  • 2009 Eleven Who Care – Prestigious KARE 11 award to Kelly Moore for her outstanding  contributions at St. John’s.

  • 2009 Eleven Who Care – Prestigious KARE 11 award to John Mastel for his outstanding volunteer contributions at Bethesda and St. Joseph’s.

  • Eric Nussbaum, MD, chair of the neurovascular division at the National Brain Aneurysm Center based at St. Joseph's Hospital was awarded the 2009 BrainLAB Community Neurosurgeon Award

  • Best Places to Work – from the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal.

  • Top 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare – For two consecutive years, Modern Heathcare named HealthEast one of the Top 100 "Best Places to Work in Healthcare" — in the nation. In 2009, HealthEast was one of just two health care organizations in theTwin Cities to receive this honor. 

2008 awards and recognition

  • 25 Women to Watch in the Twin Cities – bestowed upon Cathy Barr, Bethesda CEO, from Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal

  • 2008 Excellence in Medical Marketing Aster awards – bronze award for cancer care collateral

  • 2008 Health Care Hero Award – bestowed upon Dr. David Hale, Woodwinds Emergency Care Medical Director, by Twin Cities Business Magazine

  • American Heart Association and American Stroke Association – recognizing St. John’s and St. Joseph’s hospitals for outstanding performance in treating heart and stroke patients

  • American Psychological Association – best practices honor for Bethesda’s BRAVOe program, an employee engagement program

  • Eleven Who Care – Prestigious KARE 11 award to Eleanor Jahnke for outstanding volunteer contributions at Bethesda

  • Healthcare Marketing Report Merit Award for employer of choice ads and silver award for great place to work ads; merit award for maternity care collateral

  • Leading With Faith Award – bestowed upon Roger Green, Vice President of Strategy, Policy and Communications, from the Catholic Spirit newspaper

  • Minnesota Community Measurement and Bridges to Excellence – recognition to HealthEast Cottage Grove and Maplewood clinics for performance in care for coronary artery disease; recognition to Maplewood, Oakdale and Midway clinics for optimal diabetes care; recognition to Midway, Woodbury and Oakdale clinics for optimal vascular care

  • Minnesota Hospital Association 2007 Patient Safety Improvement: Pressure Ulcers award

  • MP Publishing’s Top 100 Most Influential Leaders in Health Care includes HealthEast CEO Tim Hanson; St. Joseph’s Hospital Medical Director Robert Moravec, MD; National Brain Aneurysm Center Chair Eric Nussbaum, MD; HealthEast Clinics Vice President and Executive Medical Director Steve Kolar, MD; Medical Director of Behavioral Health and Brain Injury Services at Bethesda Robert Sevenich, MD; and Medical Staff President Robert Weber, MD

  • National Association of Long Term Hospitals Goldberg Innovation Award for Bethesda’s integrated model of care

  • Service Industry Advertising Awards – merit award for career nursing ads

  • Top 100 Best Places to Work – Modern Healthcare Magazine

  • White Bear Area Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year Award for St. John’s Hospital