OhioHealth Grant Medical Center Receives Fifth Consecutive Magnet® Designation

OhioHealth Grant Medical Center has attained Magnet recognition for the fifth consecutive time, a testament to its continued dedication to high-quality nursing practice. The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program® distinguishes health care organizations that meet rigorous standards for nursing excellence. This credential is the highest national honor for professional nursing practice.

Only 9.6% of hospitals in the United States have earned Magnet designation and only 1%  have earned the designation five times or more.  OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital and OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital also currently hold Magnet designation. 

Grant Medical Center first received Magnet designation in 2005.

“Grant’s nurses are empowered to advance nursing excellence and provide outstanding, evidence-based care to all patients,” said Le-Ann Harris, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Grant’s Chief Nursing Officer. “Excellence is at the core of our Grant culture, and this external acknowledgement of our dedication to patient care is an esteemed honor.  This recognition may have been led by nursing, but all Grant associates helped make this happen.  Magnet recognition is a point of pride for all of us.”

“To earn Magnet recognition once was a great accomplishment and an incredible source of pride for our nurses,” said Shellie Scribner, MSN RN NPD-BC, Grant’s Manager of Nursing Excellence and Magnet Program Director.  “But to have achieved this credential five times underscores the foundation of excellence and values that drive our caregivers to provide exceptional care for all through experiences that earn a lifetime of trust.”

Research demonstrates that Magnet recognition provides specific benefits to health care organizations and their communities, such as:

• Higher patient satisfaction with nurse communication, availability of help and receipt of discharge information
• Lower risk of 30-day mortality and lower failure to rescue rate
• Higher job satisfaction among nurses
• Lower nurse reports of intentions to leave their positions

Magnet recognition is the gold standard for nursing excellence and is a factor when the public judges health care organizations. U.S. News & World Report’s annual showcase of “America’s Best Hospitals” includes Magnet recognition in its ranking criteria for quality of inpatient care.

To achieve initial Magnet recognition, organizations must pass a rigorous and lengthy process that demands widespread participation from leadership and staff. This process includes an electronic application, written patient care documentation, an on-site visit and a review by the Commission on Magnet Recognition.

Health care organizations must reapply for Magnet recognition every four years based on adherence to Magnet concepts and demonstrated improvements in patient care and quality. An organization reapplying for Magnet recognition must provide documented evidence to demonstrate how staff members sustained and improved Magnet concepts, performance and quality over the four-year period since the organization received its most recent recognition.

About OhioHealth   
Based in Columbus, Ohio, OhioHealth is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit, charitable, healthcare outreach of the United Methodist Church.   

Serving its communities since 1891, OhioHealth is a family of 35,000 associates, physicians and volunteers, and a network of 15 hospitals, three joint-venture hospitals, one managed-affiliate hospital, 200+ ambulatory sites and other health services spanning a 50-county area. For more information, visit ohiohealth.com. 

About ANCC’s Magnet Recognition Program
The Magnet Recognition Program — administered by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the largest and most prominent nurses credentialing organization in the world — identifies health care organizations that provide the very best in nursing care and professionalism in nursing practice.

The Magnet Recognition Program serves as the gold standard for nursing excellence and provides consumers with the ultimate benchmark for measuring quality of care. For more information about the Magnet Recognition Program and current statistics, visit www.nursingworld.org/magnet.