Awards & Recognition

Nashville General Hospital (NGH) has once again earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for Spring 2025, recognizing the hospital’s continued excellence in protecting patients from preventable harm and delivering safe, high-quality care. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is the only hospital ratings program focused exclusively on preventable medical errors, infections and injuries—issues that claim over 500 lives every day in the U.S. The program is peer-reviewed, fully transparent, and free to the public.

Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)- Nashville General, a national leading public safety net hospital, announced today they have been ranked #1 in the State of Tennessee for Health Equity and Inclusion. This award was given by the Lown Hospital Institute honoring general hospital public safety for income, racial and Health education inclusivity.

The TNCPE follows the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework and recognizes organizations that demonstrate a commitment to and practice of seven critical management and performance improvement principles: Leadership, Strategy, Customers, Measurement/Analysis, Workforce, Operations and Results. NGH is the only hospital in the Middle Tennessee region to be recognized this year.

ACR Accreditation assures patients and providers that imaging modalities provide the highest level of image quality and safety. ACR Accreditation also documents that NGH meets equipment, clinical personnel, and quality assurance requirements. Since 1987, the ACR has accredited more than 38,000 facilities in 10 imaging modalities. We are proud NGH is now on that list.

The Commission on Cancer (CoC), a program of the American College of Surgeons (ACoS), recognizes cancer care programs for their commitment to providing comprehensive, high-quality, and multidisciplinary patient centered care. Nashville General Hospital is pleased to announce that it has again earned reaccreditation from The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC). Accredited for 80 consecutive years, Nashville General Hospital is the second-oldest accredited cancer program in Nashville.

Nashville General Hospital’s radiologic technology program recently received a maximum eight-year accreditation award from the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT). This radiologic technology programmatic accrediting agency is the only one recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. The program, which has been accredited since 1969, received a perfect score during the Review Committee’s February 2016 site visit.

Nashville General Hospital has been recognized with The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Laboratory Services Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. This seal is a symbol of quality that reflects an organization’s commitment to providing safe and effective patient care, and was awarded as a result of a rigorous, unannounced on-site survey by a Joint Commission expert surveyor in March 2021.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has recognized the Nashville Healthcare Center – Internal Medicine Clinic for its continued commitment to delivering high-quality, patient-centered primary care through the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model.

This recognition reflects the clinic’s successful transformation and ongoing adherence to NCQA’s rigorous standards for team-based, coordinated care that improves health outcomes, enhances the patient experience, and supports long-term wellness. The Nashville Healthcare Center – Internal Medicine Clinic’s current recognition period runs from January 30, 2026 through January 30, 2027, affirming its dedication to continuous quality improvement and excellence in primary care delivery.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality, has recognized the Nashville Healthcare Center (NHC) Internal Medicine Clinic for Diabetes. The NCQA recognizes providers that use evidence-based measures to provide quality care to their patients with diabetes. To earn this recognition, the NHC Internal Medicine clinic met the program’s highest standards in six clinical performance measures outlined in the Diabetes Recognition Program.