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

• Georgia Hospital Association, Hospital Heroes Award, Nancy Pollard, Ed.D., patient advocate at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, and Wayne Senfeld, Ed.S., LPC, administrator of Willowbrooke at Tanner, 2012
• Georgia Hospital Association, Hospital Heroes Award, John H. Burson III, MD, chair, Tanner Medical Center Board of Directors, 2009
• Atlanta Business Chronicle, Annual Healthcare Edition Who’s Who, Loy M. Howard, President and CEO of Tanner Health System, 2007, 2009

Information Technology

• One of only six healthcare organizations in the state named in the 2012 "Most Wired" report by the American Hospital Association and Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton was included in the report's "Most Improved" category for the progress it has made in implementing new technology.

Patient Satisfaction

• Healthgrades’ Outstanding Patient Experience Award, for scoring in the top 5 percent of American hospitals for patient satisfaction, Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton and Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, 2011-2012
• 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.
• Georgia Trend's list of Top Georgia Hospitals, Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica and Higgins General Hospital, 2012
• 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 six years in a row (2008-2013)
  • Healthgrades’ Joint Replacement Excellence Award, 2012
  • Ranked No. 1 in Georgia for Overall Orthopedic Services for four years in a row (2010-2013)
  • 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 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 six years in a row (2008-2013)
  • Five-Star Rated for Joint Replacement for five years in a row (2009-2013)
  • Five-Star Rated for Spine Surgery for six years in a row (2008-2013)
  • Five-Star Rated for Total Knee Replacement for five years in a row (2009-2013)
  • Five-Star Rated for Total Hip Replacement, for two years in a row (2012-2013)
  • Five-Star Rated for Hip Fracture Treatment for nine years in a row (2005-2013)
  • Five-Star Rated for Back and Neck Surgery (spinal fusion) for six years in a row (2008-2013)

• The Joint Commission's Top Performers on Key Quality Measures, Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, Higgins General Hospital, 2012
• Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) Core Measures Honor Roll, Chairman’s category, Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, Higgins General Hospital, 2012
• Leapfrog Group "A" Rating for Patient Safety, Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, 2012
• Georgia Hospital Association’s (GHA) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) Safety Leaders Circle, which recognizes hospitals’ improvements in patient care, Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, 2012
• HomeCare Elite Top 500 list of home health service providers, Tanner Home Health, 2012
• 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