Mission's heart surgery program earns the highest rating by the STS, for its level of quality. Approximately 15% of hospitals nationwide received the three-star rating.
2009: Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care given by North Carolina Blue Cross and Blue Shield. To be eligible of Blue Distinction designation, a hospital must perform a required volume of percutaneous coronary interventions and coronary artery bypass graft surgeries, and provide a full range of services, including cardiac rehabilitation.
2009: Silver Performance Award for excellent care of heart attack patients awarded by the American College of Cardiology Foundation for excellent care of heart attack patients.
2009: Mission Hospital received full accreditation as a Chest Pain Center from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. The designation of an accredited Chest Pain Center establishes Mission Hospitals as a premier hospital for acute cardiac care in this area. It communicates that the hospital offers a full-spectrum emergency cardiac care program, offering rapid diagnosis and fast track treatment, often preventing a severe heart attack from occurring.
2008: Named UnitedHealth Premium Cardiac Specialty Center for 2007 - 2009.
Mission is specifically cited by UnitedHealth for its cardiac rhythm management, such as implantation of pacemakers and implantable defibrillators; cardiac care, including emergency care and interventional services; and cardiac surgery.
2008 AACN Beacon Award
Mission's Cardiovascular Critical Care and Recovery Units received the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence from the American Association of a Critical Care Nurses. The Beacon Award is given twice yearly for units that exhibit the highest quality standards in nurse recruitment and retention, patient outcomes, staff training, healthy work environments, leadership and evidence-based practice and research.
2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 and 2000: A Top 100 Heart Hospital
For each of these years, Mission Hospital's heart program was named among the nation's top 100 in the "Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success" study made by Thomson Healthcare (formerly Solucient), a provider of comprehensive health care information. The Cardiovascular 100 Top Hospitals® award recognizes hospitals that have set national clinical and management benchmarks for full-service cardiovascular programs during a single year. In 2006 and 2007 Mission was the only hospital in North or South Carolina to receive the designation.
According to Thomson, if all acute care heart hospitals in the nation performed at the same level as Mission and the other top 100 heart hospitals, more than 7,000 lives would be saved, and nearly 750 medical complications avoided each year.
2007: CMS top performer in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. Mission earned a $230,000 quality award for this designation from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare. In 2006 Mission received a $336,000 quality bonus from CMS for performance in both congestive heart failure and total joint replacement.
2006 and 2005: Received Premier Quality Award for treatment of heart failure and acute myocardial infarction
The Premier awards for Quality are based on quality and cost data regularly submitted to Premier for reporting and benchmarking purposes. The Premier awards are distinguished by being based on performance-based criteria, including clinical quality outcomes, clinical process indicators and resource utilization outcomes. Mission was recognized for treatment of both congestive heart failure and acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) in 2006, and for treatment of heart failure in 2005.
2003: Ranked among Top 50 heart hospitals by U.S.News & World Report
Mission was ranked among the top 50 hospitals in the entire nation for heart and heart surgery services by U.S.News & World Report Magazine in its annual health care edition.
Stroke Services
2010: Mission received the Stroke Gold Plus award. The award recognizes that Mission has sustained quality performance measures for 12 months - greater than 75% for 6 of the 10 stroke quality measures. This builds on our previous awards. Mission received Silver Awards in 2007 and 2008, and the Gold Performance Achievement Award in 2009.
2009: Mission received the Stroke Gold Performance Achievement Award
2007 & 2008: Stroke Silver Performance Achievement Award 
The Stroke Program of Mission Hospital was recognized in the recent annual "best hospitals" edition of U.S.News & World Report for making sure that our stroke patients consistently get the treatment and care proven to give them the best possible chance of survival and recovery. Mission is named as one of the hospitals in the nation which has received a Silver Performance Achievement Award from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for meeting criteria set by their joint "Get With The Guidelines" program. To achieve the silver award, hospitals must meet the specified guidelines at least 85 percent of the time for 12 months in a row.
