Awards & Recognition
Healthgrades – Top 5 Cardiac Surgery Program in California (2025, 2024, 2023)
Healthgrades’ Cardiac Surgery specialty award recognizes hospitals with superior clinical outcomes in heart bypass surgery and heart valve surgery. This is a top 10% nationwide recognition for cardiac surgery.
2025 Get with the Guidelines® – Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Receiving Center Gold Plus Award (Concord) and Gold (Walnut Creek)
Awarded for our commitment to offering rapid, research-based care to people experiencing an ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), known to be more severe and dangerous than other types of heart attacks. Both of our medical centers are designated as Contra Costa County STEMI Receiving Centers for severe heart attack patients.
2025 Heart Failure Gold Plus (Concord and Walnut Creek)
Both our medical centers have been recognized by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for our commitment to improving outcomes for patients with heart failure. This award is only given to hospitals who have demonstrated compliance to this high level of quality during the most recent 24-month or greater period.
2025 Target: Stroke Elite Honor Roll (Concord and Walnut Creek)
To qualify for this recognition, both our medical centers met the specific criteria for reducing the time between an eligible patient’s arrival at the hospital and administering treatment with the clot-busting drug, Alteplase.
2025 Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus (Concord and Walnut Creek)
Awarded for our commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines, ultimately leading to more lives saved and reduced disability. As part of this recognition, we also achieved Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll and Target: Stroke Elite Honor Roll.
Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center
Awarded by The Joint Commission (TJC) in collaboration with the American Heart Association (AHA), this is the highest level and most demanding certification awarded to less than 1% of community hospitals in the nation. Learn more.
American Heart Association (AHA) Commitment to Quality Award
Both our Concord and Walnut Creek Medical Centers have earned the AHA’s Commitment to Quality award—an honor given to only 158 hospitals nationwide. This award demonstrates our continued commitment to quality improvement through use of the Get With The Guidelines® program across our cardiovascular and stroke service lines.
Blue Distinction® Center for Cardiac Care
Blue Shield Blue Cross and Anthem Blue Cross have designated our Concord Medical Center as a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care, signifying that our program meets their nationally established Selection Criteria by demonstrating expertise in the delivery of high quality, safe and effective cardiac care.