Northside was honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2020 and 2019, and was the only Georgia hospital to make the list.
Northside was recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in 2020, 2019 and 2018 by workplace culture and compensation monitoring site Comparably. The hospital ranked among all Top Large employers (more than 500 employees) across the U.S. for Best Company Compensation, Best Company Leadership, Best CEOs for Women, Best Company Perks & Benefits, and many additional categories.
Northside hospitals have earned The Joint Commission’s (TJC) Gold Seal of Approval™ for health care quality, receiving select Disease-Specific Care Certifications.
All hospitals have received quality achievement awards from the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines®.
All hospitals also achieved American Heart Association (AHA) Mission: Lifeline® quality achievement awards for commitment and success in implementing exceptional standards of care for heart attack patients.
U.S. News & World Report rated Northside high performing in multiple specialties, procedures and conditions:
Both Northside Hospital Duluth and Northside Hospital Gwinnett have received the Beacon Award for Excellence® from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
The bariatric surgery programs at Northside Hospital Atlanta, Northside Hospital Duluth and Northside Hospital Forsyth are accredited by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program.
Northside hospitals have been recognized by HealthGrades with multiple awards for superior quality care and performance:
For the 11th consecutive year (2009-19), The Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program at Northside Hospital Cancer Institute was recognized as having among the best survival outcomes in the United States for bone marrow transplants, per data reported by Be The Match, which manages the largest and most diverse marrow registry in the world.
The Northside Hospital Breast Care Program is accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (American College of Surgeons), which recognizes centers from around the country that have achieved the highest quality breast care programs.
Northside's Breast Care Centers are designated as Breast Imaging Centers of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR). Northside Imaging Centers have additional ACR accreditations in Breast Ultrasound, CT, Mammography, MRI, Nuclear Medicine, PET, Stereotactic and Ultrasound.
Each of Northside’s Sleep Disorders Center is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
The Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons granted Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation to the Northside Hospital Cancer Institute, as a result of surveys performed during 2019. The Institute received the organization's Outstanding Achievement Award for six consecutive surveys and is the only program to do so.
Northside hospitals in Atlanta, Cherokee and Forsyth have received NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) designation, demonstrating our commitment and continued progress in improving quality, enhancing the patient and family experience.
Northside’s Atlanta campus is recognized as a Pulmonary Hypertension Care Center (PHCC) by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, recognizing the hospital’s special expertise in evaluating and treating patients with the disease.
The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), the nation's leading GI medical society, recognized Northside's GI Endoscopy Units for promoting quality and safety in GI endoscopy. Northside is the only hospital-based endoscopy program in Metro Atlanta to receive this recognition.
Each of Northside’s Laboratories is accredited by the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation of the College of American Pathologists.
The Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at Northside Hospital has achieved national Center of Excellence awards from the major insurance managed-care companies as well as national accreditations including ones from:
All Northside hospitals have received accreditation by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) for providing quality patient care in multiple modalities, including Echocardiography, Vascular Testing, Vein Treatment and Nuclear Cardiology.