Medical City Children’s Hospital Accreditations

• A National Center for Coordinating Pediatric Nephrology Studies.
• The only nonuniversity-affiliated hospital for the Pediatric Oncology Group, which performs studies on rare tumors.

Medical City Children’s Hospital Honors

• Medical City Children’s Hospital pediatric oncology nurses have assumed national leadership positions with the Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Nurses (APHON) and the National Institute of Health (NIH)–funded Children's Oncology Group (COG).
• Medical City Children’s Hospital nurses have received several first-place recognition awards for their national presentations of clinical practice and educational achievements.
• Medical City Children’s Hospital Hematology and Oncology Center nurses have received prestigious recognition as one of the Top 100 contributors to the practice of nursing in the North Texas area.

Recognition for Medical City that includes Medical City Children’s Hospital

• Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in December 2003 and again in April 2008. Medical City was the first hospital in North Texas to earn this recognition. And less than one percent of hospitals in the United States have twice met these rigorous standards for patient care, nursing excellence and innovation.
• Ranked eighth among the Best Companies to Work for in Texas, large company category, in 2009. Medical City was the top-ranked hospital in Texas and the only ranked hospital in North Texas. Winners were profiled in Texas Monthly. Medical City was previously listed 15th in 2006.
• Ranked first among “Best Places to Work” by Dallas Business Journal in 2004. Second in the large-company category in 2003.
• Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility, which honors employers nationally and locally for exemplary use of workplace flexibility to meet both business goals and employee needs.
• 2006 Texas Award for Performance Excellence (TAPE), which is the state’s highest honor for quality and organizational performance.
• Named the Outstanding Employer of 2002 by Dallas County Workforce System. Also awarded the WorkSource Futures Excellence Award and the WorkSource Partner Award in 2003.
• 2003 Dallas Chamber Women’s Covenant Award.
• Named the Top Employer in Dallas/Fort Worth for Family Friendly Workplace by DallasChild magazine.
• The Clinical Decision Unit of the Medical City Emergency Department was recognized by the Health Care Advisory Board in Washington as Best Practice for Observation Medicine.
• Awarded highest honors by The Joint Commission in 1991, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2007.
• Medical City Heart Transplant Center was recognized by the Department of Health and Human Services as one of the top heart transplant programs in the country.
• The Transplant Center was also awarded top honors in the 2002 Client Choice Awards by the United Resource Networks, the largest transplant referral source in the United States.
• Medical City, the only hospital in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex that offers both adult and pediatric stem cell transplantation, is one of only a few hospitals nationwide to earn full accreditation in both adult and pediatric stem cell transplant services from the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT).
• First program in Dallas with cardiovascular specialists who treat congenital heart disease in both pediatric and adult patients on the same campus.
• Cardiac catheterization program was among the first to specialize in closure of defects with a hole between chambers of the heart.