Accreditations & Awards

Money Magazine Best Hospitals in America

Money Magazine partnered with The Leapfrog Group, a health care nonprofit, to compile their list of the Best Hospitals in America for the first time in 2022. UF Health Flagler Hospital was included in the inaugural list aimed at helping patients make educated decisions about which institutions are best for their money.

Leapfrog Awards

The highest performing hospitals on the Leapfrog Hospital Survey are recognized annually with the prestigious Leapfrog Top Hospital award. Top Hospitals have better systems in place to prevent medication errors, higher quality of maternity care, and lower infection rates, among other laudable qualities.

Top General Hospital 2021
Rated A for Safety (4 in a row, Spring 2001 through Fall 2022)

Healthgrades Awards

Healthgrades evaluates hospital quality for conditions and procedures based solely on clinical outcomes to help consumers understand, compare and evaluate hospital performance. Healthgrades measures hospital performance for the most common in-hospital procedures and conditions and adjust for each patient’s risk factors, such as age, gender and medical condition. Their analysis is based on more than 45 million Medicare medical claims records and other select data available from nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide for the most recent three-year period.

Hospital Recognitions

America’s 50 Best Hospitals
America’s 100 Best Hospitals (5 years in a row)
America’s 250 Best Hospitals (9 years in a row)

Cardiac

Five Stars for Valve Replacement
Five Stars for Pacemaker Procedures (6 years in a row, 2019-2024)

Orthopaedics

America's 100 Best Hospitals for Orthopaedic Surgery (5 years in a row, 2020-2024)
America's 100 Best Hospitals for Spine Surgery (3 years in a row, 2022-2024)
Orthopaedic Surgery Excellence Award (5 years in a row, 2020-2024)
Joint Replacement Surgery Excellence Award (7 years in a row)
Spine Surgery Excellence
Named Among the Top 5% in the Nation for Overall Orthopaedic Services
Named Among the Top 10% in the Nation for Overall Orthopaedic Services (4 years in a row, 2020-2024)
Named among the top 10% in the nation for Joint Replacement (7 years in a row)
Named among the top 10% in the nation for spine surgery
Five-star recipient for Total Knee Replacement (9 years in a row, 2016-2024)
Five-star recipient for hip fracture treatment (7 years in a row)
Five-star recipient for Spinal Fusion Surgery (3 years in a row, 2022-24)

Pulmonology

Pulmonary Care Excellence (2 years in a row)
Among the Top 10% in the nation for overall pulmonary services (2 years in a row)
Five-star recipient for treatment of COPD
Five-star recipient for treatment of Pneumonia (20 years in a row)
Treatment of Respiratory Failure

Gastrointestinal

Five-star for Gallbladder Removal Surgery (7 years in a row, 2018-2024)
Gastrointestinal Excellence Award
Five-star for Treatment of GI Bleed
Among the Top 10% Nation for Overall GI Services
Five-star for GI Surgery

Critical Care

Five-star recipient for treatment of sepsis (10 years in a row, 2015-2024)
Five-star recipient for treatment of respiratory (7 years in a row)
Five-star recipient for diabetic hospitalizations (2 years in a row, 2023-24)

Labor and Delivery

Labor and Delivery Excellence (5 years in a row, 2018-2022)
Superior Performance in Labor and Delivery (5 years in a row, 2018-2022)
Top 5% hospitals for Labor and Delivery (4 years in a row, 2019-2022)
Top 10% hospitals for Labor and Delivery (5 years in a row, 2018-2022)
OBGYN Excellence
Five-star for C-Section Delivery (5 years in a row, 2018-2022)
Five-star for Vaginal delivery (8 years in a row, 2015-2022)

Surgical Services

Surgical Care Excellence Award (3 years in a row, 2022-2024)
Top 10% hospitals for Surgical Care (3 years in a row, 2022-2024)
Vascular Surgery Excellence
Appendectomy (8 years in a row)
Bariatric Surgery
Carotid Surgery
Gallbladder Surgery (5 years in a row)

Commission on Cancer Accredited Program

UF Health Flagler Hospital is accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. Our program offers a full range of diagnostic and treatment services, particularly cancer-related clinical research by enrolling patients in cancer-related clinical trials, accessions more than 500 newly diagnosed cancer cases each year. Has been continuously accredited since 2002.

Accredited by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program by the American College of Surgeons & the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery

National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers

The NAPBC standards for accreditation address the full continuum of cancer—from prevention to survivorship and end-of-life care—while addressing both survival and quality of life.

American Heart Association Stroke Award

UF Health Flagler Hospital earned the Get With the Guidelines Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award in 2022 by the American Heart Association. This award recognizes the hospital’s commitment and success in ensuring that stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

UF Health St. JohnsHome Care is recognized by the Joint Commission for Quality

UF Health Flagler Hospital has attained advanced certification by The Joint Commission by meeting high standards in providing home care.

UF Health St. Johns Employee Wellness Program Honored

UF Health St. Johns and its employee wellness program have been honored by the First Coast Worksite Council with the Platinum Level Award. This is the fifth consecutive year that we have earned the highest level (Platinum) of this award. UF Health St. Johnsjoins the ranks of other employers such as Baptist, Guidewell, Humana, Florida Blue, UNF, UF Health Jacksonville, JEA, and others.

Platinum award winners have best-in-class wellness programs and have truly created a culture of health and well-being throughout their organization. They have full leadership support and invest in necessary resources to strategically design, implement and measure programs that show demonstrated improvement in the health and well-being of their employees.

UF Health Flagler Hospital’s Sleep Center is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine

Our sleep center has demonstrated a commitment to the highest quality of care in the treatment and diagnosis of sleep disorders. In order to become accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, sleep centers must comply with the AASM Standards for Accreditation, the gold standard for patient care in the sleep medicine field. These requirements incorporate the latest advances in sleep medicine and guarantee quality care to meet the needs of patients and referring physicians.