Awards, Accreditations & Affiliations

Quality Awards

• Forbes and Statisa Best Employer in State 2024
• Healthgrades
  • 2023 and 2022 Patient Safety Excellence Award
  • 2023 and 2022 Outstanding Patient Experience Award
  • 2023 America's Best Hospitals for Prostate Surgery Award
• 2024 Women's Choice Awards, Best Hospital Award and Best Hospital Awards for:
  • Comprehensive Breast Care
  • Orthopedics
  • Mammogram Imaging 
  • Stroke Care
• The Boston Globe and The Women's Edge:  2023 Top 100 Women-Led Business from 2017 - 2024
• 2024, 2023 and 2022 Best Maternity Hospital by Newsweek
• 2024 Boston Magazine Top Doctors (65 Emerson Doctors)
• 2023 Human Experience Guardian of Excellence Award® (Emerson Endoscopy & Digestive Health Center)
• The College for Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME): 2023 Most Wired Hospital Level 8
• Massachusetts Department of Public Health 2023 Breastfeeding Achievement Award
• Mass General Network Excellence Award for Stroke Care

Quality Designations 

• Blue Cross Blue Shield's Blue Distinction Center+
  • Maternity Care
  • Bariatric Surgery
  • Knee and Hip Replacement
• American Heart Association:
  • Stroke Gold Plus Designation
  • Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award
• Designated a Primary Stroke Center by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health 
• Coverdell Hospital National Acute Stroke Program Awards:
  • Achieving Door to CT scan <= 25 minutes for at least 75% of stroke patients
  • Documentation of Modified Rankin Scale greater than or = to 95%
  • Coverdale Stroke Systems of Care Partnership Award
• Baby-Friendly USA Designation
• American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) Certified Program
• Optum Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence
• Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses  Center of Excellence in Surgical Safety: Smoke Evacuation.
• 2023 Breast Feeding Achievement Award

Accreditations

• The Joint Commission:
  • ​Hospital and Home Care Accreditation
  • Primary Stroke Center Advanced Certification
• American College of Surgeons:
  • National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC)
  • Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP)
• American College of Radiology:
  • Breast Imaging Center of Excellence
  • CT Scan
  • MRI: General MRI, Head, Spine, Body, MSK, MRA and Breast MRI
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • PET
  • Ultrasound: Breast Ultrasound, General Ultrasound, Obstetrical, Gynecological, Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy
  • Mammography: General Mammography and Stereotactic Breast Biopsy
• American Association of Blood Banks
• College of American Pathologists
• Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Accreditation Review
• Intersocietal Accreditation Commission: Superficial Venous Evaluation and Management, Extracranial Cerebrovascular, Peripheral Venous and Peripheral Arterial Testing

​Affiliations

Emerson Health is proud to hold clinical collaborations with:

Massachusetts General Hospital | Mass General Brigham

• Cardiology: Electrophysiology
• Endocrine Surgery
• Mass General Cancer Center at Emerson Hospital – Bethke
  • Medical Oncology
  • Radiation Oncology
• Neonatology
• TeleNeurology/TeleStroke
• Thoracic Surgery
• Urogynecology
• Minimally Invasive Gynecological Surgery

Brigham and Women's Hospital | Mass General Brigham

• Gynecologic Oncology
• Perinatology
• Genetic Counseling

Massachusetts Eye and Ear  | Mass General Brigham

• Otolaryngology (ear, nose, and throat)
• Audiology

MassGeneral Hospital for Children | Mass General Brigham

• Cardiology
• Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology
• Nephrology
• Pulmonology

Care Dimensions

• Palliative Care and Hospice Care

Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

• Neurosurgery

Tufts Medical Center

• Nephrology

Shields Health

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• PET-CT