Awards & Accreditations

Continually Striving for Excellence

Awards

• 2026 AHA Get with the Guidelines - Stroke Honor Roll Elite and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll Award -- Foothills Hospital
• US News & World Report High Performing Hospital 2026-2027 -- Knee Replacement, Heart Failure, Pneumonia, Heart Arrhythmia
• US News & World Report High Performing Hospital -- Maternity Services
• 2026 Healthgrades Awards
  • Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ (2026)
• 2025 Women's Choice Award Best Hospitals -- Foothills Hospital
• 2025 Best Hospitals for Maternity Care: U.S. News and World Report
• 2025 Healthgrades Awards
  • Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ (2025)
• Newsweek names Foothills Hospital among America’s Best-in-State Hospitals 2025
• Rocky Mountain Equality 2024 Corporate Changemaker Award
• Sarah Meshak, Esq., BCH General Counsel, Boulder Chamber 2024 "Women Who Light the Community" award winner
• 5280 Names 21 BCH Physicians "Top Docs" in the region for 2024
• Honorable mention, Best Physical Therapy Center, Daily Camera People's Choice Awards 2024
• 2024 awards from the American Heart Association for Quality Stroke Care
  • GoldPlus Get with The Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement Award
  • Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Award
  • Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll award
• U.S News & World Report 2024 Best Hospitals for Maternity Care
• 2024 Healthgrades Awards
  • Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ (2024)
• 2024 CareChex Winner
• BCH receives the CMS "birthing friendly" designation
• 2023 5280 magazine's TopDocs (Foothills Hospital)
• 2023 Digital Health Most Wired
• 2023 Evidence-Based Design Touchstone Award - Platinum Category
• 2023 Healthgrades Awards
  • Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ (2023)
  • Gastrointestinal Surgery Excellence Award™ (2024)
• 2023 Women's Choice Award
  • Top 1% of hospitals in patient safety
  • Top 3% of hospitals in obstetrics
  • Top 8% of hospitals in minimally invasive surgery
  • Top 5% of hospitals in cancer care
  • Top 2% of hospitals in breast care
  • Top 4% of hospitals in mammogram imaging
• 2023 Epic 9 Gold Stars
• 2023 Epic Honor Roll Summa Cum Laude
• 2023 HIMSS O-EMRAM Stage 7 for outpatient care
• 2023 HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 for inpatient care
• 2023 Becker's Great Community Hospital
• 2023 Becker’s 100 Hospitals & Health Systems with Great Orthopedic Programs
• 2023 Becker’s 100 Hospitals & Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs
• 2023 Becker's Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Heart Programs
• 2023 CDPHE’s Celebrate 6 Award of Breastfeeding Excellence
• 2023 Gold and Silver Aster Awards for health care advertising excellence
• 2023 CDPHE's gold-level status as a partner of the Colorado Healthy Hospital Compact
• 2023 Becker's Hospital Review 107 community hospital CEOs to know
• 2023 Becker's Hospital Review 126 hospital and health system CFOs to know
• 2023 Becker's Hospital and Health System CNOs to Know
• 2023 Becker's Hospital Review 100 hospitals and health systems with great heart programs
• 2023 Best Medical Center & Hospital in Yellow Scene Magazine's Best of the West 2023: Readers Choice
• 2022 31 BCH Physicians awarded 'Top Docs' by BizWest
• 2022 Digital Health Most Wired Award
• 2022 Best Hospitals for Maternity Care from The Leapfrog Group and Money Magazine
• 2022 Newsweek’s America’s Best Maternity Hospitals
• 2022 Colorado HIE Excellence Leader Award
• 2022 Best Gunbarrel/East BoulderHospital in Boulder Weekly’s annual readers’ poll
• 2022 Healthgrades Awards
  • Americas Awards Top 100 Hospitals for Coronary Intervention Award
  • Joint Replacement Excellence Award
  • Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award
  • Surgical Care Excellence Award
• 2021 U.S. News & World ‘Best Hospitals for Maternity Care’
• 2021 Healthy Hospital Gold Award from Stryker’s Sustainability Solutions, Electrophysiology Lab (EP) at Foothills Hospital
• 2021 awards from the American Heart Association for Quality Stroke Care
  • GoldPlus Get with The Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement Award
  • Target Stroke Elite Honor Roll Award
  • Target Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll award
• 2021 Jackie Attlesey-Pries, BCH VP of Nursing & Operations named a Boulder Chamber “Women Who Light the Community” award winner
• 2021 Best Hospital in Boulder Weekly’s annual readers’ poll
• 2020 Best Medical Facility in Boulder Weekly’s annual readers’ poll
• 2019 Best Medical Facility in Boulder Weekly’s annual readers’ poll
• 2019 Best Medical Center in Yellow Scene's annual readers' poll
• 2018 Best Medical Facility in Boulder Weekly’s annual readers’ poll
• 2018 Best Medical Facility in Daily Camera’s Boulder Gold readers’ poll
• Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence and Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology
• Get With The Guidelines – Stroke Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award and Target Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus Award by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
• Breast Center Recognized as Center of Excellence by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Center

Recognitions

• American Hospital Association Elects Robert Vissers, MD to its Board of Trustees for term beginning January 1, 2025
• 2023 American Heart Association for Quality Stroke Care
  • GoldPlus with Target Stroke Honor Roll Elite and Target Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll The Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement Award
• 2022 Bridge House's "Employer of the Year"
• 2022 Foothills Surgery Center ranked in the top four ambulatory surgery centers in CO
• 2022 All eight BCH primary care clinics were re-certified as patient-centered medical homes from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
• 2022 5-star CMS rating: BCH received an overall quality score of of 5 out of 5 stars from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
• 2022 Family Birth Center Recognitions
  • Leapfrog, Money Magazine 2022 Top Maternity Hospitals: Elite 259
  • Newsweek’s America’s Best Maternity Hospitals: among 161 five-ribbon performers
• BCH Imaging Facilities Designated Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence
  • Only health care system north of Denver to receive DICE
• Foothills Surgery Center among the top 3 ambulatory surgery centers in CO
• BCH Primary Care Clinics received national recognition as Patient-Centered Medical Homes
• BVCN top quality in the state for Medicare Shared Savings Program (ACO)
• Patient Experience
  • Top quartile overall rating (inpatient)
  • Top quartile staff working together to care for you (inpatient)
• Pathways to Success (formerly MSSP) program participant

Accreditations & Designations

• Accredited Breast Center by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), a program of the American College of Surgeons
• Breast Imaging Center of Excellence, a program of the American College of Radiology
• Accredited by the Commission on Cancer (CoC), a program of the American College of Surgeons
• Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence, a designation of the American College of Radiology
• Designated a Surgical Quality Partner, a designation of the American College of Surgeons
• Foothills Hospital's Family Birth Center has Baby-Friendly Designation
• Commission on Cancer Center (CoC) as a National Accredited Program for Breast Center (NAPBC)
• Imaging locations accredited by the American College of Radiology
• Laboratory services accredited by The Joint Commission and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)
• Certified as a patient-centered medical home from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
• Certified Level II Trauma Center
• Full Accreditation by the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons
• Advanced Certification as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission
• 30 consecutive year recipient of National Accreditation for Adult and Child/Adolescent Inpatient Services
• Only nationally-accredited Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehab programs in Boulder County
• Level IIB Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery