Accolades
![Healthgrades 2019 Outstanding Patient Experience Award](../_images/leadership-perspectives/accolades/healthgrades-opea-2019.png)
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center achieved the Healthgrades 2019 Outstanding Patient Experience Award™
Insights Care Magazine named Ochsner one of the 10 Smartest Healthcare Companies to Work For
![Indeed 2019 Top-Rated Workplace: The Top 50](../_images/leadership-perspectives/accolades/indeed-top-50.png)
Ochsner was ranked #11 on indeed’s Top-Rated Workplaces: Best Work/Life Balance
Ochsner received the Vizient Southern States regional Brilliance Award spotlighting organizational improvement
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services recognized Ochsner Home Health with a 5-star rating in both quality and patient satisfaction
![American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Recognized](../_images/leadership-perspectives/accolades/magnet-recognition-logo.png)
For the fourth time, Ochsner Medical Center — New Orleans earned the American Nursing Credentialing Center’s Magnet recognition — the highest national honor for professional nursing practice
Ochsner President and CEO Warner Thomas earned two prestigious honors: The Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 Gulf Coast Award and was named among the 100 Most Influential in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare
![US News and World Report 2019-2020 Best Children's Hospitals for Gastroenterology and GI Surgery](../_images/leadership-perspectives/accolades/bch-gastro.png)
![US News and World Report 2019-2020 Best National Hospitals for Neurology and Neurosurgery](../_images/leadership-perspectives/accolades/bh-national-neuro.png)
Ochsner Medical Center, Ochsner Medical Center — West Bank Campus and Ochsner Baptist were ranked #1 in Louisiana for the 8th year in a row, and were nationally ranked in the top 50 in two specialties: gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, and neurology and neurosurgery, in U.S. News & World Report’s 2019-20 Best Hospitals rankings
Ochsner Health earned the Louisiana Society for Human Resource Management’s Excellence in Diversity Award
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport was honored by the American Heart Association with the Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus award, while Ochsner Medical Center — New Orleans and Slidell Memorial Hospital received Stroke Honor Roll Elite status
![American Heart Association](../_images/leadership-perspectives/accolades/american-heart-association.png)
![US News and World Report 2019-2020 Best Children's Hospitals Ranked in 2 Specialties](../_images/leadership-perspectives/accolades/bch-2-spec.png)
Ochsner Hospital for Children was named a ‘Best Children’s Hospital’ by U.S. News & World Report in two specialties: cardiology and heart surgery and gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery
![Commission on Cancer](../_images/leadership-perspectives/accolades/coc.png)
The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center achieved Three-Year Re-Accreditation from The Commission on Cancer
![Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade A, Spring 2019](../_images/leadership-perspectives/accolades/leapfrog-hospital-safety.png)
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center and Ochsner St. Mary were awarded ‘A’ Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, while the Leapfrog Group also ranked St. Charles Parish Hospital as a “Top General Hospital”