John Muir Health is committed to providing quality health care for the community. The awards received each year by John Muir Health's hospitals, other entities and services reflect these ongoing efforts.

John Muir Health's medical centers are two of only three California hospitals to receive the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With the Guidelines SM (GWTG) program Triple Performance Achievement award for 2008 for stroke, heart failure, and coronary artery disease. John Muir Health's hospitals are the only two recognized with this quality improvement achievement in Northern California.

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Clinical Program Awards

John Muir Medical Center - Concord and Walnut Creek Campuses Recognized for Implementing Quality Stroke Care

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John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek Campus Selected for National Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) Project

2007 -- The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) announced June 4, 2007, that John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek Campus is among 68 hospitals nationwide selected to participate in a two-year project to improve patient care.

In January, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) awarded almost $1 million to AONE to work with hospitals nationwide on sharing lessons learned from Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a project originally launched in 2003 by RWJF and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).

TCAB is a national program designed to improve the quality and safety of patient care on medical and surgical units, to increase the vitality and retention of nurses and to improve the effectiveness of the entire care team. Participating hospitals will be taught the basic principles of the TCAB innovation process with a focus on nurse managers and team training. The program engages nurses to develop interventions and design new processes that improve care and lead to better staff morale. AONE will disseminate a set of practical, easy-to-use tools to help hospitals redesign delivery of care processes to improve patient care.

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