ANCC Magnet Recognition®

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is proud to have received the nursing profession’s highest honor, American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program® at our Edgewood, Covington, Grant, Florence, and Ft. Thomas campuses. The Magnet Recognition Program designates organizations worldwide where nursing leaders successfully align their nursing strategic goals to improve the organization’s patient outcomes. The Magnet Recognition Program® provides a roadmap to nursing excellence, which benefits the whole of an organization. To nurses, Magnet Recognition® means education and development through every career stage, which leads to greater autonomy at the bedside. To patients, it means the very best care, delivered by nurses who are supported to be the very best that they can be.

St. Elizabeth Edgewood, Covington and Grant were the first hospitals in Greater Cincinnati to achieve Magnet designation in 2006 and achieved their fourth consecutive Magnet® designation in September 2020. The St. Elizabeth Healthcare Florence and Ft. Thomas campuses achieved Magnet recognition in 2018 and were redesignated in 2023. Of the more than 6,000 American Hospital Association registered hospitals, only more than 600 are Magnet designated.

Magnet designation is the highest national honor for nursing excellence and provides the ultimate benchmark for patients, loved ones and community members to evaluate healthcare organizations and the quality of care they can expect.

The Magnet Recognition Program provides benefits to not only the healthcare organization, but also the people they serve:

  • Higher nurse job satisfaction
  • Lower failure to rescue rates
  • Lower mortality rates
  • Higher nurse-perceived quality of care
  • Higher patient rating of hospital experience

Magnet Recognition Program®

The Magnet Recognition Program serves as the gold standard for nursing excellence and provides consumers with the ultimate benchmark for measuring quality of care.

Magnet Model©

The Magnet model provides a framework for nursing excellence, focusing on five model components with an overarching emphasis on Global Issues in Nursing and Healthcare.

I. Transformational Leadership
II. Structural Empowerment
III. Exemplary Professional Practice
IV. New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvements
V. Empirical Quality Results

About ANCC’s Magnet Recognition Program

The Magnet Recognition Program, administered by the ANCC the largest and most prominent nurses credentialing organization in the world, identifies healthcare organizations that provide the very best in nursing care and professionalism in nursing practice.