Awards and Honors

Best Places to Work

• Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Top 10 Best Places to Work, large employer category, Tanner Health System, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011
• Georgia Trend, Best Places to Work in Georgia, Tanner Health System, 2007, 2011
• Modern Healthcare magazine, one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare,” Tanner Health System, 2008

Community Leadership

• Keep Carroll Beautiful Environmental Excellence Award, 2011
• Georgia Hospital Association, Community Leadership Award, Tanner Health System for its establishment of Willowbrooke at Tanner, 2010

Executive Leadership

• Atlanta Business Chronicle, Annual Healthcare Edition Who’s Who, Loy M. Howard, President and CEO of Tanner Health System, 2007, 2009
• Georgia Hospital Association, Hospital Heroes Award for John H. Burson III, MD, chair, Tanner Medical Center Board of Directors, 2009

Patient Satisfaction

• HealthGrades’ Outstanding Patient Experience Award, for scoring in the top 10 percent of American hospitals for patient satisfaction, Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton and Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, 2011
• Press Ganey Partner of Choice Award, presented to just five hospitals nationwide for outstanding patient, physician and employee satisfaction scores, Higgins General Hospital, 2010

Quality

• Thomson Reuters, 15 Top Health Systems in the nation, Tanner Health System, 2012. Tanner was listed among small health systems, but was the only health system in Georgia on the list in any category – small, medium or large.
• HealthGrades Honors for Orthopedics – Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton offers some of the best orthopedic care in the country, according to the nation’s leading independent source of physician information and hospital quality ratings, HealthGrades. The hospital earned:
  • HealthGrades’ Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award for five years in a row (2008-2012)
  • HealthGrades’ Joint Replacement Excellence Award, 2012
  • Ranked Among the Top 5 percent in the nation for Overall Orthopedic Services for four years in a row (2009-2012)
  • Ranked Among the Top 10 percent in the nation for Joint Replacement, 2012
  • Ranked No. 1 in Georgia for Overall Orthopedic Services for three years in a row (2010-2012)
  • Ranked Among the Top 10 in Georgia for Joint Replacement for four years in a row (2009-2012)
  • Five-Star Rated for Overall Orthopedic Services for five years in a row (2008-2012)
  • Five-Star Rated for Joint Replacement for four years in a row (2009-2012)
  • Five-Star Rated for Spine Surgery for five years in a row (2008-2012)
  • Five-Star Rated for Total Knee Replacement for four years in a row (2009-2012)
  • Five-Star Rated for Total Hip Replacement, 2012
  • Five-Star Rated for Hip Fracture Treatment for eight years in a row (2005-2012)
  • Five-Star Rated for Back and Neck Surgery for five years in a row (2008-2012)

• Georgia Hospital Association Quality Honor Roll, Chairman’s category, Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, 2011
• Georgia Hospital Association Quality Honor Roll, President’s category, Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton and Higgins General Hospital, 2011
• Nation’s Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals, as ranked by the National Rural Health Association (NHRA), Higgins General Hospital, 2011
• Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), Better Performers: Children’s Healthcare of West Georgia, Gastroenterology Associates, Internal Medicine of Carrollton, Primary Care of Bremen, Tallapoosa Family Health Care, Tanner Family Healthcare of Franklin and West Carroll Family Medicine; Tanner Medical Group, 2010