Benefits of Magnet

Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn and Scottsdale Healthcare Shea are Magnet designated hospitals. Magnet is the most attractive choice in healthcare You, your family and community will benefit by choosing a Magnet hospital.

Independent research shows that Magnet facilities:
  • Report higher patient satisfaction rates
  • Have staff who spend more time at patients’ bedsides
  • Deliver better patient outcomes
  • Have shorter lengths of patient stay
  • Have lower patient mortality rates
  • Have lower rates of needlestick injuries
  • Enjoy increased nurse retention and recruitment rates
  • Report lower rates of nurse burnout and higher rates of job satisfaction
  • Consistently outperform non-Magnet organizations

Ensuring nursing care when you need it
Magnet nurses are vigilant and attentive. They spend more time at patients’ bedsides providing compassionate, expert care than at other hospitals. Nurses are the primary source of help and support for patients at the most vulnerable times in their lives, and Magnet hospitals empower them to do what they know is right.

They can spend the time they need with patients instead of paperwork. You can be sure that Magnet nurses have the support, autonomy and the tools they need to do their work well. Patient care is Scottsdale Healthcare’s highest priority. You won't just hear about quality from a Magnet organization, you'll experience it.

Magnet designation also helps:
  • Improve patient quality outcomes
  • Reinforce positive collaborative relationships
  • Enhance care
  • Recognizes nurses’ worth
  • Retain and recruit the very best nurses, physicians and staff
  • Create a competitive advantage
  • Increase staff morale
  • Enhance a culture of excellence

Independent research suggests that Magnet facilities have positive outcomes for patients, nurses and workplaces. Specifically, patients experience shorter lengths of stay and increased satisfaction.

Nurses in Magnet organizations have a greater range of advanced degrees, experience enhanced job satisfaction, give higher levels of care and are more productive. Magnet workplaces have a lower incidence of needlestick injuries, lower patient mortality rates, increased RN retention and recruitment rates and lower nurse burnout rates.