Awards and Recognition

To us, it’s more than just a phrase. It’s about every physician, employee and volunteer that provides high quality care every day at Miami Valley Hospital. It’s backed by awards and recognition that demonstrate our commitment to excellence to our patients.

Awards

U.S. News & World Report Rankings

Miami Valley Hospital ranked 12th among Ohio’s hospitals in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report rankings. The distinction includes Miami Valley Hospital North in Englewood and Miami Valley Hospital South in Centerville.

The hospital also achieved a “high performing” designation from U.S. News & World Report in the following 13 areas in 2025 which includes maternity named earlier in the year:

U.S. News & World Report Best Maternity Care

U.S. News & World Report named Miami Valley Hospital to its annual list of hospitals for best maternity care 2026. The list is intended to help expectant families make informed choices about where to seek high quality care for uncomplicated pregnancies. To be recognized among the Best Hospitals for Maternity, hospitals must excel on multiple quality metrics that matter to expectant families. High-performing hospitals had fewer early deliveries, fewer C-sections, and fewer newborn complications than other hospitals, as well as higher rates of breast milk feeding. Only one-third of the hospitals evaluated by U.S. News for maternity care earned a high performing rating.

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Highest Rating

Miami Valley Hospital achieved a 3-Star Rating in Aortic Valve Replacement combined with Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (AVR-CABG) for 2025, a designation earned by only 4% to 7% of programs nationally, according to STS. In addition, Miami Valley Hospital earned a 3-Star Rating for Multiprocedural Cardiac Surgery. Overall, a new and highly selective STS category. This ranking placed the hospital’s cardiac surgery program among the top 10% of programs in the U.S. and Canada for comprehensive cardiac care.

The STS 3-star rating is the organization’s highest, reflecting superior outcomes in areas like mortality, complications, and adherence to best practices. Ratings are based on data submitted to the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database over a three-year period, from January 2022 through December 2024.

Healthgrades Awards

Healthgrades is an independent organization created to help consumers understand, compare and evaluate hospital performance. They provide objective, comprehensive information about hospital quality in America's hospitals. Healthgrades evaluates hospitals solely on clinical outcomes—risk-adjusted mortality and in-hospital complications. They recognize the top-performing hospitals in the nation that have achieved excellence in particular specialties, clinical excellence, and patient safety.

The full HealthGrades study can be found at www.healthgrades.com

• Cardiac
  • Top 10% in the Nation for Cardiology Services for three years in a row (2020-2022)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Heart Attack for nine years in a row (2014-2022)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Heart Failure for nineteen years in a row (2007-2025)
• Critical Care
  • Recipient of the Critical Care Excellence Award for thirteen years in a row (2009-2021)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Sepsis for eighteen years in a row (2006-2023)
• Gastrointestinal
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of GI Bleed (2022)

American Heart Association/American Stroke Association 2025 Get With The Guidelines^®

Miami Valley Hospital and Miami Valley Hospital South have received the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association’s 2025 Get With The Guidelines^®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. This award recognizes the hospitals’ commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence from the American Heart Association (AHA).

Miami Valley Hospital North received Get With The Guidelines^®-Bronze Quality Achievement Award.

Miami Valley Hospital received the 2025 Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite and the Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll.

2024 Healogics – Center of Distinction

Miami Valley Hospital South Wound & Hyperbaric Center has been recognized by Healogics. To earn the Center of Distinction award, centers must achieve:

• Patient satisfaction rate of 92% or higher
• Wound Adjusted Comprehensive Healing Rate of 77% or higher
• Outlier rate of 16% or lower.

Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Award for Excellence in Life Support/ECMO

(January 2026) Miami Valley Hospital was the 11th center worldwide to join the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) and received the Award for Excellence in Life Support - Platinum level, the highest award possible, recognizing the program's commitment to exceptional patient care in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). All Award of Excellence designations are for a three-year period (through December 2028).

Accreditations and Designations

Level I Trauma Verification Miami Valley Hospital

The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma first verified Miami Valley Hospital as a Level I Trauma Center in 1992 and has reverified Miami Valley Hospital every three years since, most recently in 2019. As Dayton’s most experienced Level I Trauma Center, Miami Valley Hospital is able to manage any type of injury 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Miami Valley Hospital South Receives Level III Trauma Center Designation

(November 2019) Miami Valley Hospital South has achieved designation as a Level III Trauma Center from the Ohio Department of Public Safety. Miami Valley Hospital South joins Premier Health’s trauma network that includes Miami Valley Hospital’s Level I Trauma Center and Atrium Medical Center’s Level III Trauma Center.

Premier Health First in Ohio, Second in Nation to Achieve System-Wide Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation

(October 2023) Premier Health has again been awarded a system-wide Level 3 Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA) from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). This distinction recognizes emergency departments that provide excellent care for older adults. The health system previously achieved this accreditation in 2020 and was the first system in Ohio and the second in the nation to do so.

The bronze standard Level 3 Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation applies to:

• Atrium Medical Center in Middletown
• Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton
• Miami Valley Hospital Austin Boulevard Emergency Center in Miamisburg
• Miami Valley Hospital Jamestown Emergency Center in Jamestown
• Miami Valley Hospital North in Englewood
• Miami Valley Hospital South in Centerville
• Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy
• now also includes Miami Valley Hospital Beavercreek Emergency Center, which opened in 2022.

Miami Valley Hospital Awarded Advanced Certification for Comprehensive Stroke Care

(May 2019) Miami Valley Hospital has once again earned The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval^® and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Heart-Check mark as an Advanced Certification for Comprehensive Stroke Center. The Gold Seal of Approval^® and the Heart-Check mark represent symbols of quality from their respective organizations. With this certification, Miami Valley Hospital joins an elite group of health care organizations focused on highly-specialized stroke care.

Joint Commission Certification

The Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest health care accrediting body, has accredited Miami Valley Hospital as a health care organization. A comprehensive evaluation is conducted every three years with the last survey taking place in September 2017. Due to COVID, all hospital accreditation periods will be extended until safe to review. Miami Valley Hospital main campus has maintained continuous Joint Commission accreditation since December 2014 as a Comprehensive Stroke Center. Miami Valley Hospital South maintained continuous Joint Commission accreditation since November 2016 as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital.

American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Center of Excellence

(2014 to Present) The Breast Imaging Center of Excellence (BICOE) designation is awarded to breast imaging centers that achieve excellence by seeking and earning accreditation in all of the American College of Radiology's (ACR) voluntary breast-imaging accreditation programs and modules, in addition to the mandatory mammography accreditation program. The Breast Center at Miami Valley Hospital North first achieved this accreditation in 2014. The Breast Centers at Miami Valley Hospital and Miami Valley Hospital South are also Breast Imaging Centers of Excellence.