awards
2021 recipients of the NDNQI® Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality®
Celebrating the achievements of outstanding institutions
This award honors nursing excellence and recognizes the best-performing hospital in each of seven categories. The analysis considers 17 quality measures to evaluate scores by unit type, develops a standardized score for each unit, and combines scores across the units to produce an overall score. The highest-ranking hospital in each category receives the award.
Award winners
- Ballad Health Woodridge Psychiatric Hospital
- Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron
- Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
- Orthopaedic Hospital at Parkview North
- SEHA – Ghayathi Hospital