Awards & Accreditations
At Porter Health Care System, we're all about commitment. Our commitment to medical excellence; our commitment to personalized, patient-centered care; and our healthy commitment to making your life better.
This commitment drives all we do to ensure our patients receive quality in every service we provide. Here are a few facts about our services, technology and recent awards:
- Porter Health Care System patients are receiving nationally ranked, top quality care according to leading independent healthcare reporting agencies such as Healthgrades and Hospital Compare.
- Accolades have been given to Porter Health Care System in coronary interventions, orthopedics, pneumonia care and gastrointestinal procedures.
- Porter Regional Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission and has even earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval.
- Evidence-based practices have led our Intensive Care Unit to be compared to such prestigious hospitals as Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and have led Porter Health Care System to be ranked in the top 10 nationally for congestive heart failure.
- Patients from across the country are coming to Porter Health Care System to take advantage of our minimally invasive hip replacement surgery which gets patients up and moving faster with minimal pain.
- Our robotic platform utilizes advanced technology offering patients a less invasive surgery.
- Porter Regional Hospital is the only hospital in Northwest Indiana to offer a new treatment option for patients with inoperable liver cancer, the Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) procedure.
- The Center for Cardiovascular Medicine is recognized for Blue Cross and Blue Shield Distinction in Cardiac Care; Advanced Certification in Heart Failure by The Joint Commission in conjunction with the American Heart Assoication; Get with the Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold-Plus Award from the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology; Accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC); Advanced Certification as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission; Certified Program by the American Association Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation; Echocardiography Accreditation by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC); and Atrial Fibrilation Certification from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care (SCPC).
- Porter Regional Hospital is recognized as a 2014 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® by The Joint Commission.