MountainView Hospital and Southern Hills Hospital announced today that they have achieved the 2026 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ from Healthgrades, the #1 site Americans use to find a doctor or hospital. This award reflects MountainView and Southern Hills Hospitals commitment to safe, patient-centered care and puts the organization in the top 5% of hospitals nationwide for patient safety. This is the second consecutive year as a Patient Safety Excellence Award recipient for Southern Hills Hospital.
All three Sunrise Health Hospitals — Sunrise, Southern Hills and MountainView were named one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals earlier this year. They were the only hospitals to receive this recognition in the state of Nevada for overall clinical excellence and the recipients of numerous accolades based on their exceptional performance in key service areas, including cardiac care, orthopedic surgery, stroke care, critical care, surgical care and more. These achievements further underscore the organization’s commitment to delivering compassionate, individualized care at every step of the patient journey.
“Receiving the 2026 Patient Safety Excellence Award from Healthgrades is an incredible honor and a testament to the commitment of our colleagues at MountainView Hospital and Southern Hills Hospital,” said Jackie Van Blaricum, president of the Sunrise Health System. “Earning recognition in the top 5% of hospitals nationwide for patient safety reflects the culture of accountability, collaboration and patient-centered care that defines our teams. I am especially proud that Southern Hills Hospital has received this distinction for the second consecutive year — a powerful demonstration that excellence in safety is not a one-time achievement, but a sustained commitment to the patients and communities we serve.”
MountainView Hospital and Southern Hills Hospital’s achievement is based solely on what matters most: patient outcomes. To determine the national leaders in patient safety, Healthgrades evaluated risk-adjusted complication and mortality rates from approximately 4,500 hospitals nationwide across 13 patient safety indicators (PSIs), with each PSI representing a serious, preventable complication.
As part of HCA Healthcare, MountainView Hospital and Southern Hills Hospital are among 92 hospitals nationwide recognized for patient safety, highlighting the impact of a system-wide commitment to delivering high-quality, patient-centered care. HCA Healthcare supports a culture in which patient safety is embedded in everyday care delivery. For more than a decade, the organization has operated a federally listed Patient Safety Organization (PSO) that partners with hospitals to strengthen clinical processes, advance evidence-based safety practices and facilitate enterprise-wide learning. Insights gained across facilities are systematically shared to promote consistency, advance adoption of proven practices and enhance the reliability of care across the organization.
In 2024, HCA Healthcare added to this work through a structured implementation of the National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety. Multidisciplinary teams of hospital leaders, physicians and frontline clinicians completed facility-level assessments of safety culture and patient safety systems and used that data to align local improvement efforts with enterprise goals, reinforce capability and sustain progress toward key safety priorities.
Healthgrades’ annual analysis revealed significant performance gaps between the nation’s highest-and lowest-achieving facilities, making it increasingly important for consumers to seek care at a hospital with top safety ratings. During the 2022-2024 study period, 167,228 preventable safety events occurred among Medicare patients at U.S. hospitals, with four PSIs accounting for nearly 78% of all incidents. Patients treated at MountainView Hospital and Southern Hills Hospitals and other award-winning facilities had a profoundly lower risk of experiencing these leading complications:
- In-hospital fall resulting in fracture (52.4% less likely)
- Collapsed lung due to a procedure in or around the chest (57.5% less likely)
- Catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in the hospital (67.8% less likely)
- Pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital (71.9% less likely)
"The data behind this year’s Patient Safety Excellence Award highlights how measurable improvements in safety can prevent thousands of complications,” said Dr. Alana Biggers, MPH, medical advisor at Healthgrades. “By prioritizing evidence-based safety practices, MountainView Hospital and Southern Hills Hospital are achieving better clinical outcomes and cultivating a culture where patients come first.”
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*Statistics are calculated from Healthgrades’ Patient Safety Excellence Award Methodology, which is based primarily on AHRQ technical specifications (Version 2025.0.1) to MedPAR data from approximately 4,500 hospitals for years 2022 through 2024 and represent three-year estimates for Medicare patients only.