About

Awards & Recognitions

2024


2023


2022


2021


2020


2019


2018


2017


    2016

    • Baptist Health Care is recognized as a Platinum Level Recipient and for Community Innovation by the American Heart Association's Fit-Friendly Worksites Recognition program. Baptist is the only business to earn the Platinum designation locally
    • Baptist Health Care has been recognized as a Platinum-Level Recipient and for Community Innovation by the American Heart Association Fit-Friendly Worksites Recognition program. Physical activity and team member wellness are important priorities and Baptist is committed to providing the best workplace environment possible.

    2015

    • The Heart & Vascular Institute’s Cardiovascular Diagnostics Department has been granted full accreditation for Nuclear Cardiology by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission for Baptist Hospital, Gulf Breeze Hospital and Baptist Medical Park – Nine Mile.

    2014

    • Baptist Health Care on Becker’s ‘150 Great Places to Work’ List
    • Baptist Hospital receives Stroke Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award.
    • Gulf Breeze Hospital receives Stroke Silver-Plus Quality Achievement Award.
    • First robotic sleeve gastrectomy in the Pensacola area is performed at Baptist Hospital.
    • Baptist Hospital’s operating room (OR) team was recognized for their outstanding performance and presented with an Operating Room of the Year award from LifeNet Health of Florida.
    • Baptist Hospital is honored as an Outstanding Partner in Education by the Escambia County School District for working with the students of Pensacola High School Health Academy.
    • Baptist Health Care is recognized as a Platinum Level Recipient of the American Heart Association’s Fit-Friendly Worksites Recognition.
    • Baptist Hospital earns High-Performing Specialty recognition for gynecology from the U.S. News & World Report ranking of Best Regional Hospitals.
    • Baptist Hospital receives the 2014 Healthgrades Bariatric Surgery Excellence Award™ in recognition of consistently performing bariatric surgeries with little to no complications after surgery.
    • Intersocietal Accreditation Commission Accredited Facility for Echocardiography graphic logoThe Heart & Vascular Institute’s Cardiodiagnostics Department was granted full accreditation for Echocardiography in the areas of Adult Transthoracic and Adult Stress by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission. This accreditation was received for Baptist Hospital, Gulf Breeze Hospital, and Baptist Medical Park – Nine Mile.
    • Baptist Health Care (BHC) along with Sacred Heart Health System (SHHS) received the Community Benefit Achievement Award from the Florida Hospital Association.
    • Baptist Hospital receives the 2014 Healthgrades Bariatric Surgery Excellence Award™
    • BHC hospitals received Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Awards
    • Baptist Health Care was listed on Becker’s 100 Integrated Health Systems to Know

    2013

    • Baptist Health Care was recognized as Training Magazine’s No. 39 out of the top 125 corporate institutions in the U.S. for team member training and people development. This is the 12th consecutive year the organization has achieved this national recognition.
    • President and CEO, Mark T. Faulkner is the recipient of this year’s Pensacola Area Commitment to Excellence (PACE) Award Business Leader of the Year.
    • The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association awarded Baptist Health Care the Gold Plus award and placed the organization on the Target Stroke Honor Roll for achieving 85 percent or higher for 24 consecutive months on the Get with the Guidelines® achievement measures.
    • Baptist Hospital receives Stroke Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award.
    • In August Baptist Health Care was named a Silver winner of the ninth-annual Health at Work Awards sponsored by ComPsych and its HealthyGuidance® program. This award was based on the comprehensiveness, delivery, promotion, participation rates and results achieved by BHC's wellness program, Healthy Lives™.
    • Baptist Hospital received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® Silver Receiving Quality Achievement Award. The award serves to recognize Baptist Hospital’s commitment and success in implementing an exceptional standard of care for heart attack patients.
    • Baptist Health Care was voted Independent News Best of the Coast.
    • BHC was named a Silver winner of the ninth-annual Health at Work Awards sponsored by ComPsych and its HealthyGuidance® program.
    • Baptist Health Care Recognized as an American Heart Association Fit-Friendly Worksite
    • Gulf Breeze Hospital was named one of Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals® for delivering higher quality and more efficient care than other hospitals of similar size or teaching status
    • Baptist Health Care was recognized as Training Magazine’s No. 39 out of the top 125 corporate institutions in the U.S. for team member training and people development.
    • Baptist Health Care is listed on Becker’s 100 Integrated Health Systems to Know, a list based on health systems’ range and coordination of health care services.

    2012

    • Baptist Medical Group receives an Award of Merit for their website BaptistMedicalGroup.org and a Silver Award for their April 2011 Bella magazine advertisement promoting their primary care physician network from the Healthcare Marketing Report’s 29th Annual Healthcare Advertising Awards competition.
    • Baptist was one of 28 VHA member hospitals to receive a Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence from The Voluntary Hospital Association, Inc
    • Baptist Hospital was the first and only hospital in the region to receive the American College of Cardiology Foundation’s Platinum Performance Achievement Award for sustaining high standards and excellence in cardiovascular care
    • Baptist Hospital was recognized by VHA Inc. among 28 hospitals who were recipients of the Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence Award. The hospitals achieved top performance on core measures and patient satisfaction (HCAPHS) scores nationally
    • Baptist Health Care was voted “Best Place to Work” in the Pensacola News Journal 2012 Best of the Bay
    • Gulf Breeze Hospital was named one of Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®
    • Baptist Health Care was recognized as Training Magazine’s No. 25 out of the top 125 corporate institutions in the U.S. for team member training and people development
    • Baptist Health Care Receives 2012 VHA Quality Award

    2011

    • Baptist and Gulf Breeze hospitals both earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™ for accreditation by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety in hospitals.
    • FMQAI, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Florida, presented Gulf Breeze Hospital with a 2008-2011 Patient Safety Award in recognition of the hospital’s unwavering commitment to quality improvement in patient safety.
    • Baptist Hospital was the first and only hospital in the region to receive the American College of Cardiology Foundation’s Gold Performance Achievement Award for sustaining high standards and excellence in cardiovascular care
    • Baptist Health Care achieved “Best of the Coast” as a best place to work and awarded by Independent News
    • Baptist Hospital, Inc. and Gulf Breeze Hospital Joint Commission Top Performers.
    • Baptist Health Care Receives 2012 VHA Quality Award.

    2010

    • Baptist Health Care is voted as "Best Place to Work" in The Pensacola News Journal Best of the Bay reader survey.
    • Baptist Health Care is voted as one of the "Top Places to Work" awarded by St. Petersburg Times to Gulf Coast Enterprises.
    • Baptist Health Care is awarded employer of the year by Virginia College of Pensacola.
    • Sperduto and Associates ranks Baptist Health Care No. 1 out of 15 health care organizations that conduct employee surveys. BHC facilities held the top four spots for employee morale.
    • Baptist Health Care is included in Training Magazine’s Top 125 for commitment to employee training and career development.
    • James Andrews, M.D., earns Pace Award for his contribution to health in the community through the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine.
    • Press Ganey Associates, Inc. recognizes Gulf Breeze Hospital with the Summit Award for sustaining the highest level of customer satisfaction.
    • Baptist Health Care receives a gold standard of laboratory accreditation in the nation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP).
    • Baptist Hospital receives the American College of Cardiology Foundation’s Silver Performance Achievement Award for sustaining high standards and excellence in cardiovascular care.

    2009

    • Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine achieved the Florida Press Association award for first place in Special Section - Best Historical Program or Anniversary for newspapers with a circulation less than 100,000. Pensacola News Journal nominated the Institute for the section “Andrews Institute – A Year of Community Excellence.”
    • Baptist and Gulf Breeze Hospitals were awarded the 2008 Jean Byers Award for Excellence in Cancer Registration by the Florida Cancer Data System. The award recognizes both hospitals’ timeliness and completion of reporting cancer cases. It also marks Baptists’ 13th consecutive year of excellence in cancer registration honors.
    • Press Ganey Associates, Inc. recognized Baptist Health Care facilities –Jay Hospital, Gulf Breeze Hospital and Baptist Medical Park – Nine Mile Surgery Center – with Summit Awards for sustaining the highest level of customer satisfaction.

    2008

    • Baptist Health Care CEO Al Stubblefield Receives American Hospital Association Award Of Honor Baptist Health Care’s first chief executive officer (CEO), Pat Neff Groner, is inducted into the national American College of Healthcare Executives’ Health Care Hall of Fame for his lifelong leadership and extraordinary contributions to the health care field.
    • Gov. Charlie Crist presents Baptist Hospital with a Florida Exceptional Employer Award for its support of Project Search of Lakeview Center, a workplace training program for high school students with developmental disabilities. Selected by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, Baptist Hospital is recognized for providing job opportunities to Project Search students. Lakeview Center launched Project Search at Baptist Hospital in October 2007.
    • Baptist Hospital, Gulf Breeze Hospital, Baptist Medical Park – Nine Mile Surgery Center and Jay Hospital were honored with Summit Awards. Hospitals that sustain the highest level of patient satisfaction scores for three or more consecutive years are honored with Summit Awards. Baptist Health Care has consistently ranked in the 99th percentile since 1996 for patient satisfaction.

    2007

    • Baptist Health Care Named Merit Winner in the Fall/Winter 2007 World Wide Web Health Awards
    • Fortune Magazine Lists Baptist Health Care Among America’s Best Companies to Work For
    • Baptist Facilities Win National Accolades for Patient Satisfaction
    • Baptist Health Care Wins 2007 BEST Award For Excellence In Training and Development Programs

    2006

    • Baptist Hospital is selected as one of the nation’s 100 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals by a study featured in Modern Healthcare magazine. More than 860 U.S. hospitals were evaluated, using information from Medicare cost reports and data on nearly 12 million hospitalized Medicare patients.
    • Baptist Health Care celebrates its fifth consecutive year as one of FORTUNE magazine’s "100 Best Places to Work For," placing 18th on the annual list.
    • The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations awards its Primary Stroke Center designation to Baptist and Gulf Breeze hospitals. The designation, which comes with the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval, certifies that the hospitals meet stringent national standards in their provision of stroke care.
    • Baptist Health Care receives Ochsner Health System’s equivalent of the Oscar, the "Ochsner," for assistance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. More properly known as the Spirit of Leadership Award, the bronze statue of Dr. Alton Ochsner is presented to Baptist during the New Orleans–based health system’s annual awards banquet.
    • Baptist Hospital Wins 2006 VHA Leadership Award For Clinical Excellence- for national performance standards through implementation of Rapid Response Teams.
    • Baptist Facilities Win National Accolades for Patient Satisfaction
    • Baptist’s Website Wins eHealthcare Leadership Award

    2005

    • Baptist Hospital among the Nation’s 100 Top Hospitals for Cardiovascular Care
    • Healthcare Alliance Recognizes Baptist Health Care for Operational Excellence
    • Baptist Hospital, Inc., Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Goes
    • Baptist Health Care is a winner of the CIO Web Business 50 Award

    2004

    • President George W. Bush presents the 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award to Baptist Hospital Inc., which includes Baptist Hospital, Gulf Breeze Hospital and Baptist Medical Park – Nine Mile.

    2003

    • Baptist Health Care once again is included on Fortune magazine’s list, "America’s 100 Best Companies to Work For."
    • Baptist Health Care launches Women’s HeartAdvantage with the national health cooperative, VHA.
    • Baptist Health Care is included in Training magazine’s list of "Training’s Top 100" companies for providing employees with the training they need to advance in their careers.
    • Baptist Health Care CEO Al Stubblefield and Lakeview Center’s recently retired chief executive, Dr. Morris Eaddy, are named winners of the PACE Award given by the Pensacola Area Chamber of Commerce for contributions to northwest Florida. Stubblefield received the "Business Leader of the Year" honor, and Eaddy received the "Spirit of Pensacola" honor.

    2002

    • Baptist Health Care ranks 10th on Fortune magazine’s list, "America’s 100 Best Companies to Work For." Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush is among the first to send congratulations.
    • Baptist Health Care is awarded the Employer of Choice designation by the nationally recognized authorities on employee retention and workplace trends.

    2001

    • Press, Ganey Associates presents Baptist Health Care with its inaugural Preceptor Award for improving healthcare leadership across America. Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush is among those attending the ceremony.

    2000

    • Baptist Health Care is named a recipient of RIT/USA Today Quality Cup Award.

    1990s

    • 1999 Gulf Breeze Hospital continues to lead the nation in the Press, Ganey Associates survey of patient satisfaction through 48 consecutive months. Baptist Hospital ranks in top five nationally
    • 1998 Gulf Breeze Hospital continues to rank first in the nation in Press, Ganey patient satisfaction survey. Baptist Hospital in 99th percentile.
    • 1997 Baptist Hospital and Gulf Breeze Hospital shared the 1997 Voluntary Hospitals of America Leadership Award for organizational management in recognition of the hospitals’ patient satisfaction initiative.
    • 1997 Baptist Hospital receives the 1997 Marriott Service Excellence Award sponsored by Marriott Health Services and Modern Healthcare Magazine
    • 1997 Gulf Breeze Hospital was ranked number one in patient satisfaction among more than 600 hospitals nationwide consecutively for 24 months.