Magnet Recognition
Eisenhower is the Coachella Valley’s Only Hospital To Receive Magnet® Recognition
Eisenhower Medical Center is honored to have received Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program®. To date, only seven percent of the nearly 6,000 hospitals in the nation hold this prestigious designation. Eisenhower Medical Center is proud to be one of them.
Eisenhower Receives Magnet Designation
Magnet FAQ
What is Magnet Recognition?
Magnet recognition is the highest and most prestigious international distinction a health care organization can receive for nursing excellence and outstanding patient care.
To achieve Magnet status, hospitals must apply for and undergo a rigorous, multi-faceted evaluation. They must also submit extensive documentation on how they meet Magnet standards. The process is thorough and includes extensive on-site evaluations from ANCC appraisers, and interviews with hospital staff, physicians, and patients. To ensure that hospitals with Magnet recognition continue to perform among the elite in the nursing field, they must reapply for designation every four years and provide updates annually.
Hospitals must exemplify nursing excellence, including quality initiatives, nursing research, high patient satisfaction, transformational nursing leadership and nursing professional development.
Magnet recognition is granted to health care organizations that exhibit excellent patient outcomes and satisfaction, have impressive nurse-patient ratios and attract and retain the best staff from all disciplines.
Did you know?
- To date, only seven percent of all hospitals in the United States have achieved Magnet status.
- Eisenhower is one of only 33 hospitals in California to earn this designation.
- Eisenhower Medical Center is the first hospital in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties to receive Magnet recognition.
Why is Magnet recognition important to patients?
Studies have shown that Magnet hospitals have:
- Better patient outcomes
- Lower mortality rates
- Increased patient satisfaction
- Shorter lengths of stay
In this new information age, patients have easy access to just about any health-related question they may have. They are becoming more educated and discriminating, seeking benchmarks from objective third-party sources that will help them to decide which health care provider is right for them.
Hospitals receiving Magnet recognition provide patients and their families with that benchmark. The ‘Magnet” name helps patients identify hospitals where they can find engaged nurses and expect to receive a higher level of care.
What does Magnet recognition mean to nurses and the hospital?
Magnet recognition means that a “Magnet culture” has been created within the organization. This encourages nurses to flourish as professionals, focusing on professional autonomy. A “Magnet culture” fosters decision making at the bedside, involves nursing in determining the nurse work environment, provides professional education and promotes leadership. Magnet recognition means that collaborative, multidisciplinary working relationships are nurtured. Teamwork and positive relationships among different departments and disciplines are demonstrated.
