Awards & Distinctions

Doctors Medical Center is a 461-bed, multi-specialty hospital with more than 2,600 dedicated employees. In the more than 60 years that we have served the Central Valley, we have achieved a growing list of recognitions.

DMC has the first Level II Verified Trauma Center in the region. This Trauma Center enables us to provide 24-hour emergency care, immediately have surgeons and anesthesiologists on hand and provide backup care for rural and community hospitals. As part of the Level II designation, we also provide continuing education for our trauma team and preventive outreach programs for the community.

Among other recognition, here are some of our Accreditations & Awards:

  • Designated as American College of Surgeons (ACS) Surgical Quality Partner (2023)
  • Designated as a bronze Safe Sleep Hospital by the National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program (2023)
  • U.S. News & World Report 2023-24 High Performing Hospital for Diabetes, Heart Failure and Stroke
  • American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award (2023)
  • Quality & Sustainability Award: NTSV Cesarean Birth Rate (PC-02) from the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (2023)
  • Commission on Cancer 3-Year Accreditation from the American College of Surgeons (2023)
  • Honor Roll Award for Maternity Care from the California Health and Human Services Agency, Hospital Quality Institute and Cal Hospital Compare (2022)
  • U.S. News & World Report 2022-23 High Performing Hospital for COPD, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Heart Failure, Kidney Failure and Stroke
  • American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with recognition on the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll (2022)
  • Quality & Sustainability Award: NTSV Cesarean Birth Rate (PC-02) and Maternal Data Center Early Implementers Award from the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (2022)
  • Honor Roll Award for Maternity Care from the California Health and Human Services Agency, Hospital Quality Institute and Cal Hospital Compare (2021)
  • American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with recognition on the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll (2021)
  • U.S. News & World Report 2021-22 High Performing Hospital for COPD, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Heart Failure and Stroke
  • American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award (2021)
  • Maternity, Opioid Care and Patient Safety Honor Roll Awards from the California Health and Human Services Agency, Hospital Quality Institute and Cal Hospital Compare (2020)
  • American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award (2020)
  • American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with recognition on the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll (2020)
  • U.S. News & World Report 2020-21 High Performing Hospital for COPD and Heart Failure
  • Earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval and the American Stroke Association’s Heart-Check Mark for Comprehensive Stroke Certification – one of only 27 Comprehensive Stroke Centers in California and the only center in the Central Valley (2020)
  • Earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Total Hip Replacement Certification (2020)
  • U.S. News & World Report 2019-20 High Performing Hospital for COPD and Heart Failure
  • American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus and the Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award (2019)
  • American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline Stemi Receiving Center, Gold Level Recognition Award for Heart Attack Care
  • Accredited as a Mission: Lifeline Heart Attack (STEMI) Receiving Center by the American Heart Association – first hospital in California to receive this accreditation
  • American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline NSTEMI Gold Achievement Award
  • Designated as a Blue Distinction® Center for Knee and Hip Replacement for Blue Shield of California
  • Accredited as a Chest Pain Center by the Society of Chest Pain Centers – first hospital in region to receive designation
  • Level II Verified Trauma Center (American College of Surgeons)