Accreditations & Awards
Healthcare accreditations, certifications and other recognitions play a vital role in ensuring quality patient care and building community trust by demonstrating our expertise and commitment to high standards and continuous improvement. These achievements reflect our unwavering commitment to safe, innovative, high-quality care. Colquitt Regional applauds the tireless work by our team of healthcare providers and professionals that make these recognitions possible.
“A” Hospital Safety Score
Colquitt Regional has received an “A” Hospital Safety Score 20 times, most recently in the Spring of 2025. This “A” rating from The Leapfrog Group names Colquitt Regional as one of the safest hospitals in the Nation. The Leapfrog Group is a nonprofit watchdog organization that serves as a voice for healthcare purchasers, using their collective influence to foster positive change in U.S. healthcare. Leapfrog is the nation’s premier advocate of hospital transparency – collecting, analyzing and disseminating hospital data to inform value-based purchasing.
Press Ganey Experience Pinnacle of Excellence Award
Colquitt Regional is a 2023 Press Ganey Human Experience (HX) Pinnacle of Excellence Award® winner. As a winner of the Press Ganey HX Pinnacle of Excellence Award®, Colquitt Regional has ranked in the top five percent of healthcare providers in delivering patient experience over a minimum of two years.
Press Ganey Experience Guardian of Excellence Award
Colquitt Regional is a 2022 Press Ganey HX Guardian of Excellence Award® winner. This accolade represents Colquitt Regional’s leadership, providing more human-centric care experiences by identifying what physicians need most and pivoting quickly. Colquitt Regional ranks in the 95th percentile in physician engagement amongst other healthcare facilities across the nation.
Baldrige Commitment Award
In 2020, Colquitt Regional Health System received the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence (TNCPE) Commitment Award. This award recognizes organizations who demonstrate serious commitment and implementation of performance improvement principles outlined in the Baldrige Framework for Excellence. The Baldrige Framework is implemented across industries of all sorts to help empower organizations to reach goals and improve results, along with becoming more competitive by aligning its plans, processes, decisions, people, actions and results. Colquitt Regional was one of only six organizations nationwide to achieve this status in 2020.
Pathway to Excellence
In August 2020 and again in 2024, Colquitt Regional was designated as a Pathway to Excellence® organization by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), becoming the first hospital in South Georgia and one of only six in the state to receive this distinction. The designation recognizes healthcare organizations that create positive practice environments where nurses thrive and is based on six essential standards: shared decision-making, leadership, safety, quality, culture of well-being and professional development.
Colquitt Regional began its Pathway journey in 2019, and in late 2024, the hospital was redesignated as a Pathway to Excellence® organization, reaffirming its ongoing commitment to nursing excellence and a supportive, high-quality care environment.
2017 Top Rural Hospital
In December of 2017, Colquitt Regional Health System was named a 2017 Top Rural Hospital by The Leapfrog Group. Nationwide, only 18 rural hospitals received this distinction, and this was the second time Colquitt Regional has been named to the list, the first being in 2014. The Top Hospital award is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious honors that American hospitals can receive. Performance across many areas of hospital care is considered in establishing the qualifications for the award, including infection rates, maternity care and the hospital’s capacity to prevent medication errors. The rigorous standards are defined in each year’s Top Hospital Methodology.
Gold Seal of Approval from The Joint Commission
Colquitt Regional voluntarily underwent a thorough evaluation by The Joint Commission to see if our facility meets The Joint Commission’s rigorous performance standards in delivering quality, safe care. By meeting these standards, Colquitt Regional received The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval – an internationally recognized symbol of quality.
Bariatrics Program Accredited by MBSAQIP
The bariatric surgical center at Colquitt Regional has been accredited as a Comprehensive Center under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP), a joint program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS). The MBSAQIP standards ensure that bariatric surgical patients receive a multidisciplinary program, not just a surgical procedure, which improves patient outcomes and long-term success.
Get With the Guidelines – Stroke Silver Plus Award
In 2024, Colquitt Regional received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines – Stroke Silver Plus Award. This award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
Get With the Guidelines – Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award
In 2020, Colquitt Regional received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines – Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award. This award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
Georgia Department of Public Health – Remote Stroke Treatment Center Designation
The Georgia Department of Public Health has designated Colquitt Regional Health System as one of twenty Remote Stroke Treatment Centers in the state of Georgia. The designation recognizes Colquitt Regional Health System’s advancement in quality care for stroke patients. This includes rapid screening, diagnosis and intervention for stroke patients. This designation also recognizes the Hospital’s secondary prevention measures, such as blood pressure control and smoking cessation, to reduce the incidence of recurrent strokes. Stroke patients require immediate treatment, which is why Colquitt Regional Health System has worked to earn this designation and provide local access to this level of care in our community.