Magnet Recognition Program

What is the Magnet Recognition Program? Periodically, everyone needs medical care. When it’s you, your family or your friends, you want to make sure they have the best possible diagnosis, treatment and care.

Healthcare is too important to be left to chance. You want to be certain that the healthcare facility you choose is of the highest quality. How can you be sure that you’ll find that quality?

Why was the Magnet Recognition Program developed? The Magnet Recognition Program was developed by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to recognize healthcare organizations that provide the very best in nursing care and uphold the tradition within nursing of professional nursing practice.

Recognizing quality patient care and nursing excellence, the Magnet designation provides consumers with the ultimate benchmark to measure the quality of care that they can expect to receive. A natural outcome of this is the elevation of an organization’s reputation within the nursing profession.

When an organization receives the Magnet designation, the ANCC recognizes its nursing excellence, teamwork, quality outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn’s and Scottsdale Healthcare Shea's designation as Magnet hospitals is the result of delivering the highest quality care to its patients.

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) assesses healthcare organizations according to their collaboration among departments. Only those organizations that demonstrate teamwork throughout the system achieve the Magnet designation. With this designation, Scottsdale Healthcare Shea and Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn are recognized for excellence among its nearly 6,500 staff members.

The Magnet program recognizes healthcare organizations that provide the best in nursing care and support professional nursing practice.

Magnet designation helps consumers locate healthcare organizations that have a proven level of excellence in patient care.