Awards & Honors

Centura Health is Colorado's largest health care system and the state's leading provider of heart attack and stroke care. So we're especially proud when our hospitals receive national accreditation, awards and praise for the superior care we offer.

St. Anthony Central Hospital received awards in the following areas:

• 2006 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals for Cardiovascular Care
• 2006 CareScience Select Practice National Quality Leader citation for AMI with PCI
• American Heart Association's Initial Achievement Award for "Get with the Guidelines" Heart Failure and Stroke programs
• American Heart Association's Sustained Achievement Award for "Get with the Guidelines" Coronary Artery Disease program
• The Joint Commission Accreditation for Heart Attack, Heart Failure and Stroke
• American College of Cardiology ranked St. Anthony Central in the 99^th percentile for quality care in cardiac patients.St. Anthony Central scored 983 out of a possible 1,000 on the Leapfrog Hospital Quality and Safety assessment
• Senior Services received award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for exemplary partnership in Medicare Part D outreach
• Department of Health and Human Services National Medal of Honor Award for Organ Conversion
• John Nichols, MD awarded Dr. Valentin E. Wohlauer Award for Physician Excellence in Emergency Medical Services
• Neale Lange, MD, named Physician of the Year by the Colorado Society for Respiratory Care
• June Nowatzke, RRT, named Practitioner of the Year by the Colorado Society for Respiratory Care
• Alan Lazaroff, MD, Director of Geriatric Medicine, named a “Champion in Health Care” by the Denver Business Journal
• Douglas Kirkpatrick, MD, was named president-elect of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• Patricia Santos, RN, CNRN, coordinator of the stroke and neurovascular program at St. Anthony Central was a finalist for Colorado’s 2007 Nightingale Award
• 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors issue named 19 physicians on St. Anthony Hospitals medical staff