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• MultiCare GI labs recognized for promoting quality

  Posted on Mar 29, 2012
  

  The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), a leading gastrointestinal medical society, has recognized MultiCare Health System’s gastrointestinal labs as part of its program specifically dedicated to promoting quality in endoscopy. MultiCare Health System is one of 400 endoscopy units to be granted the recognition.

• 'Green' Dally Tower is first hospital in state to earn LEED Gold

  Posted on Feb 7, 2012
  

  MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital's Dally Tower is the first inpatient hospital facility in Washington state to receive the Green Building Certification Institute's LEED Gold award.
  

• Mary Bridge recognized for low infection rate

  Posted on Feb 2, 2012
  

  MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital has been working hard to keep kids in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit safe from infections.

  That work was recognized recently when the Tacoma hospital received the highest rating of any pediatric hospital in Washington in a Consumer Reports story about preventing infections in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

• Chamber recognizes Good Samaritan Hospital for innovation

  Posted on Jan 26, 2012
  

  The Puyallup/Sumner Chamber presented the 2012 Business Innovations award to MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital for the new family medicine residency training program at East Pierce Family Medicine.

• MultiCare No. 1 integrated health system in state, No. 10 in U.S.

  Posted on Jan 23, 2012
  

  The Tacoma-based not-for-profit MultiCare Health System is the top-ranked health care system in Washington state in a list of the most efficient and integrated networks, coming in at No. 10 on the national list of top 100 integrated health care systems -- the fifth consecutive year that MultiCare has ranked among the top 10 in the United States.

• MultiCare.org honored with national website award

  Posted on Dec 13, 2011
  

  MultiCare Health System's website was honored among the best health care Internet sites in the nation at the 2011 eHealthcare Leadership Awards.

• Award honors CEO's vision, leadership, dedication

  Posted on Oct 25, 2011
  

  The Washington State Hospital Association presented this year's Joe Hopkins Memorial Award to MultiCare Health System President and CEO Diane Cecchettini, RN.

• Mary Bridge, Good Samaritan win WSHA 'Best Hands on Care Award'

  Posted on Oct 18, 2011
  

  Two MultiCare hospitals have earned the 2011 "Best Hands on Care Award" from the Washington State Hospital Association. Above, Olympic snowboarder Shaun White demonstrates the "gel in, gel out" hand-sanitizing technique while visiting patients in February at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & Health Center in Tacoma.

• MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital wins Consumer Choice Award

  Posted on Oct 17, 2011
  

  Consumers in Pierce County have once again chosen MultiCare Tacoma General as a top destination for receiving health care, according to the largest and most comprehensive consumer study of U.S. health care.

• MultiCare Health System successfully demonstrates health record

  Posted on Oct 3, 2011
  

  MultiCare Health System is among the first in Washington to show that its electronic health record, called MultiCare Connect, meets the requirements of a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service incentive program, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

• State award honors lifesaving newborn heart screening program

  Posted on Sep 19, 2011
  

  For their pioneering work in screening newborns for heart defects, MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital's Family Birth Center and the MultiCare Mary Bridge Pediatric Heart Center have been chosen to receive the 2011 Warren Featherstone Reid Award for Excellence in Health Care

• Two MultiCare physicians named 'Best Doctor' by KOMO

  Posted on Sep 1, 2011
  
  What do Pacific Grill, Top of Tacoma, The Grand Cinema and MultiCare's Dr. Daniel Ginsberg have in common? In addition to being stylish and smart, they're also among the "Best of Tacoma." Additionally, MultiCare's Dr. Daryl Austin was named "Best Doctor" in Auburn.

• New services, technology improve cancer patient experience

  Posted on Aug 30, 2011
  

  MultiCare Regional Cancer Center has been recognized by the Association of Community Cancer Centers with the 2011 Innovation Award for improving the patient experience.

• MultiCare among nation's 'Most Wired'

  Posted on Aug 9, 2011
  

  MultiCare Health System is honored for the third year in a row for its complete electronic health record that connects all hospitals and clinics..

• Dr. Krilich honored among Business Examiner's 40 Under 40

  Posted on Aug 8, 2011
  

  Dr. Chad Krilich, a Regional Medical Director for MultiCare Medical Associates, was honored this week as one of the Business Examiner newspaper's "40 Under Forty."
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