Accreditations and Awards
Accreditations:
Central Baptist Hospital is a member of Baptist Healthcare System, one of Kentucky's largest not-for-profit health care providers. We are proud to be accredited by the following organizations:
- National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (breast cancer and benign breast disease)
- Joint Commission (hospital)
- American Nurses Credentialing Center (Magnet status for nursing)
- Society of Chest Pain Centers (hospital)
- Joint Commission (stroke program)
- College of American Pathologists (clinical laboratory and reproductive endocrine laboratories)
- American Association of Blood Banks (blood bank)
- American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation(cardiac rehabilitation program)
- American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer (cancer care program)
- American College of Radiology (mammography)
- American College of Radiology (MRI and PET scan services)
- American College of Radiology (Nuclear medicine)
- American Diabetes Association ("Life with Diabetes" program)
- College of American Pathologists (Respiratory Blood Gas Laboratory)
- Food & Drug Administration (mammography)
- American Academy of Sleep Medicine (sleep diagnostic center)
- Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (echo lab)
- American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (weight-loss surgery program)
Awards:
Click on one of the following links to learn more about Central Baptist Hospital's awards.
- Nurse Magnet Award
- Best Places to Work in Kentucky
- 2009 Kentucky Hospital Association Quality Award
- American College of Cardiology GWTG Gold Performance Achievement Award
- Home Care Elite Top 25%
- Chest Pain Center Reaccreditation
- Consumer Choice
- Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence
- American Heart Association/American Stroke Association GWTG Gold-Plus Performance Award
- Modern Healthcare magazine's Top 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare
- Alfred P. Sloan Award for Workplace Flexibility
- Primary Stroke Center Earns Gold Seal of Approvalâ„¢

