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February 18, 2000
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nationally Recognized for Excellence in Nursing Services
Washington, D.C.- The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the nation's leading nursing credentialing organization, has a awarded its Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Services designation to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of Los Angeles, CA, for continued exemplary nursing leadership and quality patient care. The designation to Cedars-Sinai brings the total number of Magnet-recognized facilities to 16.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer Linda Burnes-Bolton, DrPh., RN, FAAN, exclaimed, "We are honored, out of thousands of institutions nationally, to be one of only 16 hospitals to receive Magnet recognition. The award indicates that our colleagues across the nation believe this is an excellent place to work and an excellent place to receive care." Cedars-Sinai Medical Center joins a distinguished list of Magnet designated facilities, which includes Mayo-Rochester Hospital (Rochester, MN), University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle, WA), and Hackensack University Medical Center (Hackensack, NJ).
Since 1990, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been named consecutively by the National Research Corporation (NRC) as Southern California's "gold" standard in healthcare. Los Angeles residents rated Cedars-Sinai "number one" for Best Overall Quality, Most Preferred Hospital Overall, Best Doctors, Most Personalized Care, Best Nurses, and Best Image and Reputation.
The concept of credentialing hospitals based on nursing care had its origin in the 1980s, when nursing groups studied why some hospitals could recruit and retain nurses and others could not. They discovered that nurses were attracted to so-called "magnet hospitals," where they had more time with patients and more control over resources. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's President and CEO Thomas M. Priselac commented, "We are honored to receive the Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Quality of patient care is absolutely central to the Cedars-Sinai mission. A key reason for our high quality of care is our superlative nursing staff, headed by Chief Nursing Officer Linda Burnes-Bolton, whose leadership is inspiring."
ANCC's Magnet status is a process whereby a team of professionals with experience in quality indicators, nursing administration, and nursing care appraises a hospital's nursing services, clinical outcomes, and patient care delivery as defined in the Scope and Standards for Nurse Administrators and outlined by the Congress of Nursing Practice of the American Nurses Association (ANA). The appraisers not only review traditional "nurse-sensitive" indicators, but also conduct extensive interviews that help evaluate the management philosophy and advocacy practices of the Chief Nurse Executive with respect to the patient, family, community, and nursing services.
Thomas F. Zenty, III, Senior Vice President, Clinical Care Services and COO noted, "While we provide the latest high-tech equipment as well as ground-breaking research and clinical techniques to our patients, our nursing staff has never forgotten that personalized, compassionate patient care is what really makes the difference."
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ranks among the top 12 non-university hospitals in the nation for research activities, and is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the UCLA school of Medicine.
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) is the national program that leads the profession of nursing in the number and scope of its certification examinations. ANCC certifies nurses in general and advanced practice specialties and in modular areas of expertise. In addition, ANCC accredits agencies, organizations, health facilities, schools, and others who offer or approve continuing education courses for registered nurses, and it recognizes excellence in nursing service through its Magnet Nursing Services Recognition Program.
The American Nurses Association is the only full-service professional organization representing the nation’s 2.6 million Registered Nurses through its 53 constituent associations. ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.
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