Awards and Accreditations of Baptist Health Paducah

Baptist Health Paducah is a member of Baptist Health, Kentucky’s largest healthcare system. We are proud of the following awards and accreditations:

• The American College of Cardiology – Certified in:
• National Distinction of Excellence – HeartCARE Center
• Chest Pain with Primary PCI and Resuscitation
• NCDR Performance Achievement Award for Chest Pain – MI Registry
• Heart Failure -With Outpatient Services (accreditation)
• Cardiac Cath Lab – PCI
• Transcatheter Valve (certification)

• American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR)
  • Cardiac Rehab
    
• Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC)
  • Vascular Ultrasound
  • Echocardiography
• American Stroke Association/American Heart Association –
• Get With the Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus award with Target: Stroke Elite Honor Roll
• Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll quality achievement award for for stroke care.
• Get with the Guidelines™ - Resuscitation Gold Plus Award for heart attack.
• U.S. News & World Report Recognized – High Performing Hospital for:
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Heart attack
• Heart failure
  

• Baptist Health Medical Group Bariatric and General Surgery programs is accredited under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®), a joint program of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for meeting the highest standards for patients safety and quality of care
  
• Recognized by Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Kentucky as a Blue Distinction Plus Center for Maternity Care – a distinction held by only 489 hospitals nationwide, 2021.

• American College of Radiology (ACR):
  • Radiation Oncology department
  • Lung Cancer Screening Center Designation
  • Breast Imaging Center of Excellence
  • PET/CT Scan
  • MRI
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Ultrasound
  • Gold seal in mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy and breast ultrasound
• Heartflow
  • CT Coronary Angiography Quality Award
• Gold Seal of Approval as an Advanced Primary Stroke Center, awarded by The Joint Commission for the fourth consecutive cycle
  
• U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals #6 in Kentucky, 2019.
• Pathway to Excellence® designation awarded by American Nurses Credentialing Center: 2017, 2019, 2023
  
• Healogics (manages 600 centers nationwide)
• Center of the Year East Division, 2021, 2019
• President’s Circle Award 2017 -2022
• Center of Distinction – 2016 -2023

Surgical Review Corporation:

• • Center of Excellence in Robotic Surgery
• GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer
  • Lung cancer screening
• EON – Silver
  • Lung cancer screening

• Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology
• American College of Surgeons -
  • Commission on Cancer (accreditation) since 2001

• 5-Star Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rating for providing high quality care.