Awards & Recognition

TOP TEN HEART CENTER

Texas Heart® Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital named a top ten Cardiovascular Center for eighteen consecutive years by U.S.News & World Report. HealthGrades, a leading healthcare evaluation company that provides ratings and profiles of hospitals and physicians to consumers, corporations, health plans and hospitals, annually recognizes hospitals with Specialty Excellence Awards, given to facilities that perform in the top 10 percent in the nation in specialty categories. St. Luke's received the Stroke Care Excellence Award™ for the sixth year in a row in 2007. Other recognitions received in 2007 are the Pulmonary Care Excellence Award™, the Gastrointestinal Care Excellence Award™ - both given to St. Luke's for the fourth time in a row - and, for the first time, the Vascular Surgery Excellence Award™.

FIRST MAGNET HOSPITAL IN TEXAS

Recognized in 2001 and 2005 as a Magnet Hospital for Excellence in Patient Care - the first in Texas - by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

BEST PLACE TO WORK

Named one of the Best Place to Work in Houston by the Houston Business Journal.

GOLD SEAL OF APPROVAL™

St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital has earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ for stroke care by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), whose standards are regarded as the most rigorous in the industry.

TOP CARDIAC CENTER FOR WOMEN

Included in Good Housekeeping's list of "44 Top Cardiac Centers for Women." St. Luke's is the only hospital in Texas honored by Good Housekeeping's designation.

CONSUMER CHOICE AWARD

Recognized by Consumer Choice Award as one of the hospitals consumers choose as having the highest quality and image in over 100 markets throughout the U.S.

TOP 50 HOSPITAL

Named one of the nation's "50 Top Hospitals in the U.S." by Modern Maturity Magazine.

PATHWAY TO EXCELLENCE

St. Luke's The Woodlands Hospital has achieved The Pathway to Excellence™ Designation by The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

AARP

Texas Heart® Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital was named where docs were "most likely" to send patients with extremely difficult cases.