U.S. News & World Report - Top 50 Ranking
Magnet Hospital Designation
Beacon Award

U.S. News & World Report - Top 50 Ranking
St. Cloud Hospital has been recognized as one of America’s high-performing hospitals in 10 specialties in the U.S. News & World Report 2011-12 edition.

The 10 ranked specialties St. Cloud Hospital received recognition in are diabetes and endocrinology; ear, nose and throat; gastroenterology; geriatrics; gynecology; nephrology; neurology and neurosurgery; orthopedics; pulmonology; and urology.

U.S. News evaluates almost 5,000 hospitals to rank the best hospitals in 16 adult specialties. Death rates, patient safety, procedure volume and other objective data went into the 2011-12 rankings.

St. Cloud Hospital received U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals recognition for urology in 2006, 2008, 2010; U.S. News & World Report recognized St. Cloud Hospital as one of America's Best Hospitals for Orthopedics in both 2007 and 2008; and Endocrinology 2005-2006.

Learn more about U.S. News & World Report’s America's Best Hospitals listing.

Magnet Hospital Designation
St. Cloud Hospital earned the prestigious honor of Magnet Designation in 2004 and was redesignated in February 2009. Magnet Designation is the highest national or international recognition for excellence in the delivery of Nursing services that are provided in a professional practice environment, promote quality and evidence-based practice, and result in positive patient outcomes.

The Magnet Recognition Program is administered through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. It was established in 1990 and provides a method of recognizing hospitals that create and maintain a professional practice environment that ensures quality patient outcomes. Learn more about the Magnet Designation.

Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence
St. Cloud Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) earned the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence, an award given by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and specifically designated to recognize the nation’s top hospital critical care units. Critical care units that receive the Beacon Award have exhibited high quality standards, exceptional care of patients and their families and healthy work environments.