St. John's Regional Medical Center (California) - Awards

Awards

In 2003, St. John’s Regional Medical Center and St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital’s community newsletter, which at the time was called Living Well, was presented with the prestigious Bronze award by HMR Publications Group, Inc. at the annual Healthcare Advertising Awards in the "Newsletter" category. Living Well was produced by St. John’s Public Relations and Communications Department and published by Diablo Custom Publishing (DCP).

In 2005, 2006, and 2007, St. John’s Regional Medical Center was a recipient of the HealthGrades Cardiac Care Excellence Award™. Additionally, St. John’s Regional Medical Center was five-star rated for treatment of heart attack by HealthGrades. In 2007, St. John’s Regional Medical Center was honored with the HealthGrades Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award™—given only to the top five percent of hospitals in the nation.

In 2006, in a report released by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), St. John’s Regional Medical Center earned a rating of "Better" in the first mandatory "California Report on Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery 2003 Hospital Data." St. John’s was one of only four hospitals in California, and the only hospital in Ventura County, to earn this designation.

In June 2008, St. John’s Regional Medical Center with Fleishman-Hillard Inc. won a Silver Anvil Award, sponsored by the Public Relations Society of America, which recognizes outstanding achievement in strategic public relations planning and implementation. The award was presented to St. John’s Public Relations and Communications Department as a result of its extensive community outreach effort to inform employees, physicians, patients and their families, neighbors, and the media of plans for the temporary suspension of hospital operations to successfully treat mold at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in August 2007.

In July 2009, St. John’s Regional Medical Center and St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital received a Circle of Life Award® Citations of Honor from the American Hospital Association (AHA).