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MultiCare is a leading-edge, integrated health organization made up of four hospitals including Allenmore Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Tacoma General Hospital, numerous primary care and urgent care clinics, multi-specialty centers, Hospice and Home Health services, and many other services. A not-for-profit organization based in Tacoma, Washington since 1882, MultiCare has grown over the years in response to community needs. Today we are the area's largest provider of health care services, serving patients at 93 locations in Pierce, South King, Kitsap and Thurston counties.

At MultiCare, we are committed to providing high-quality, patient-centered care. By identifying and responding to the community’s needs, we have built a health care system that offers skilled and compassionate care to individuals at every stage of life.

Health Care Services Accreditation

•  American Board of Radiology
  
  
• Tacoma General Hospital is identified with Joint Commission's Certificate of Distinction as a Primary Stroke Center

• American Association of Respiratory Care Quality Respiratory Care Recognition
  
  
• American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer
  
  
• American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)
  
  
• Cardiac Rehabilitation Accreditation (American Association of Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation)
  
  
• Chest Pain Center Accreditation (Society of Chest Pain Centers and Providers)

• The Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons

• College of American Pathology (CAP) accreditation program

• Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)

• MultiCare hospitals, Home Health, and Hospice are accredited by the Joint Commission

2010 Awards and Recognitions

• MultiCare Health System has been named one of the nation’s Most Wired health systems according to Health IT magazine. MultiCare is one of only two health systems in Western Washington to earn this distinction.
  
  
• The Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit and the Coronary Care Unit at MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital has been recognized as among the top in the country by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses by being awarded the Beacon Award of Excellence.

• MultiCare Health System’s Regional Cancer Center received the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer’s Outstanding Achievement Award for excellence in providing quality care to cancer patients.

• MultiCare's Healthy@Work program was awarded two Pierce County WorkWell Awards at the 4th Annual Healthy Breakfast Showcase March 23rd, the WorkWell Gold Designation and the Happy Heart Achievement Award.

• Economic Development Board of Tacoma-Pierce County recognized Good Samaritan and the new Tacoma Emergency Departments as significant economic development projects in 2009.

• Linda Wayman-Davis, a long-time nurse with MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, has won the Pierce County Nurses Association Nurse of the Year Award.

• American Council of Engineering Companies of Washington awarded the MultiCare Steam Plant a Silver Award in the Energy category.
  
  
• MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital President, John Long, was named Outstanding Health Care Executive-Puget Sound by Seattle Business Magazine.
  
  

• Bridges: A Center for Grieving Children won a City of Destiny Award from the City of Tacoma for its work with children who experience the death of a parent or sibling.
  

• MultiCare Health System earned the highest ranking among West Coast health systems for its efficiency and integrated health care network and also placed fourth in national rankings on the 2010 Top 100 Integrated Health Networks list.

2009 Awards and Recognitions

• MultiCare placed sixth nationally on an annual listing of integrated health networks (IHN), as compiled by SDI (formerly Verispan). 
  
  
• MultiCare Health System has been awarded the 2009 Commission on Cancer’s (CoC) Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA). MultiCare in one of only two Hospitals in the state of Washington to receive this award.
  
  
• MultiCare earned Best Large Business, while Tacoma General Hospital earned Best Hospital and Best Place to Have a Baby by readers of South Sound Magazine.
  
  
• MultiCare Awarded the HIMSS Davies Organizational Award of Excellence given to just one health care system in the country that effectively uses health information technology, such as electronic health records, to improve the safety and quality of patient care.
  
  
• The National Research Corporation (NRC), has honored Tacoma General with the 2009/2010 Consumer Choice award, based on surveying regional consumers.
  
  
• MultiCare Health System has been named one of the nation’s 100 Most Wired health systems and the 25 Most Wireless health systems, according to Hospital & Health Network magazine. MultiCare is one of the few health systems in the nation to have electronic health records and one of only two health systems in Western Washington to earn this distinction.
  
  
• MultiCare Health System has won the “Silver Award for Best Employee Recruitment Site for a Healthcare System” from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, the premiere national organization that focuses on the ways leading-edge health care organizations use the Internet and technology to achieve their objectives.
  

• MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital has earned the 2009 Award of Excellence in Healthcare Quality from Qualis Health, a national health care quality improvement program.

• MHS President & CEO, Diane Cecchettini, RN, named Outstanding Health Care Executive, Metropolitan Division, by Seattle Business magazine.

2008 Awards and Recognitions

• The National Research Corporation (NRC),  has honored Tacoma General with the 2008/09 Consumer Choice award, based on surveying regional consumers.
  
  
• VHA West Coast Performance Awards Certificate of Recognition:
  
  • Community Benefit, MultiCare Center For Healthy Living
  • Clinical Performance Achievement to Tacoma General, Allenmore and Good Samaritan hospitals
  • Innovation is going to the Mary Bridge Parenting Partnership
    
    
• VHA West Coast Award Trophy Community Benefit and Team Collaboration:
  • The Community Benefit: Nurse Camp
  • The Team Collaboration Trophy Heart Failure Community Transition Program at Tacoma General Hospital

• “Distinction Award for Best Overall Website for a Healthcare System” from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends.
  
  
• The Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce has recognized MultiCare Health System as the “Chamber Member of the Year.”
  
  
• MultiCare Health System recently received national recognition from the American Heart Association as a Gold Level Start! Fit-Friendly Company.

• MultiCare is also one of only 12 companies recognized nationally with the Community Fitness Innovation Award, in addition to achieving the Gold Level recognition.

• Allenmore C Building has been chosen as a Building of America project and will be featured in the upcoming Real Estate & Construction Review-2009 Northwest Edition.
  
  
• MultiCare Health System has received the Hope Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society of Washington.
  
  
• MultiCare won several Aster Awards, which recognize excellence in health care marketing, including two gold medals. Gold medals were received for 2007 Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital transit and newspaper series advertising. MultiCare also won silver and bronze Aster awards for 2007 Gig Harbor MultiCare Medical Park print and television advertising.
  
  
• Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Center’s Vice President & Administrator Mady Murrey, RN, MN is the 2008 recipient of the VHA West Coast Passion Award.
  
  
• MultiCare Health System President and Chief Executive Officer Diane Cecchettini, RN, has received the CEO IT Achievement Award for 2008 from Modern Healthcare Magazine and the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS).
  
  
• Area consumers have once again selected Tacoma General Hospital as the hospital they would choose for their health care. That’s the finding of National Research Corporation (NRC), which has honored Tacoma General with the 2008/09 Consumer Choice award.