Home Awards & Honors
- Named one of “America’s 50 Best Hospitals” for 2008, 2009 and 2010 by HealthGrades, the only recipient in Colorado and the top 1 percent in the nation.
- Recipient of the HealthGrades 2010 Pulmonary Care and Critical Care Excellence Awards
- Recipient of the HealthGrades 2007, 2008 and 2009 Gastrointestinal Care Excellence, Critical Care Excellence and Pulmonary Care Excellence Awards.
- Recipient of HealthGrades 2009-2010 & 2010-2011 Women's Health Excellence Award
- Named a 2009 Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care
- Awarded 2008-2009 CIGNA Healthcare Top Quality Designation
- HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence for the past six years places PSF among the top 5 percent of all acute-care hospitals in the country.
- Winner of Premier Healthcare Alliance 2009 Premier Award for Quality, one of 23 winners from 3,796 eligible.
- Named to Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals® list for 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006, including one of Thomson Reuters 100 Cardiovascular Hospitals® in the United States. The annual Thomson Reuters award for cardiovascular services objectively measures performance on key criteria at the nation’s top-performing, acute-care hospitals.
- Named a Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals® performance improvement leader, recognizing U.S. hospitals that achieve the fastest rate of consistent, annual, clinical and organizational improvement during a five-year period (1999–2003).
- Selected to U.S. News and World Report’s “America’s Best Hospital’s” list in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
- Penrose Hospital is the only facility in southern Colorado designated as a Bariatric Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery.
- Recipient of the American College of Cardiology Foundation’s NCDR ACTION Registry–Get with the Guidelines Gold Performance Achievement Award for 2009 – one of only 121 hospitals nationwide
- Received a 2007 UnitedHealth Premium® Total Joint Replacement Specialty Center designation, reflecting national recognition of the quality of care provided.
- Only organization in Southern Colorado to receive the 2007 and 2008 American Heart Association’s “Fit Friendly Employer” Award.
- 2004 J.D. Power and Associates Distinguished Hospital Award for service excellence.
- Penrose Cancer Center is accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and is the only facility in Colorado accredited for radiation therapy by the American College of Radiology.
- Penrose Cancer Center is the only facility in Colorado named to participate in a multi-million dollar National Cancer Institute (NCI) pilot project that is bringing state-of-the-art treatment to local community hospitals.
- PSF’s inpatient rehabilitation unit has the highest level of accreditation from the Commission for the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.
- The pulmonary rehabilitation program at PSF is accredited as a program of excellence by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
- PSF’s Diabetes and Renal Care Center is fully accredited by the American Diabetes Association.
- National Research Corporation awarded Penrose-St. Francis the 2005/2006 Consumer Choice Award, recognizing the system as having highest quality and image in its market and serving the needs of the community in an exemplary fashion.
