Awards & Recognition

U.S. News & World Report  Best Hospitals

  • Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
    • Regionally ranked (2024-2025)
      • No. 2 in Kansas City Metro Area
      • No. 6  in Missouri
    • High Performing specialty areas (2024-2025)
      • Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery
      • Neurology & Neurosurgery
      • Gastroenterology & GI Surgery
    • High Performing procedures and conditions (2024-2025)
      • Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
      • Aortic valve surgery
      • Colon cancer surgery
      • Heart attack
      • Heart bypass surgery
      • Heart failure
      • Leukemia, lymphoma, & myeloma
      • Lung cancer surgery
      • Stroke
      • Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVAR)
    • Saint Luke's East Hospital
      • Regionally ranked (2024-2025)
        • No. 3 in Kansas City Metro area
        • No. 8 in Missouri
      • High Performing procedures and conditions (2024-2025)
        • Chronic obstructive pulmonary diesease
        • Colon cancer surgery
        • Heart attack
        • Heart failure
        • Knee replacement
        • Pneumonia
        • Stroke
        • Prostate cancer surgery
    • Saint Luke's South Hospital
      • High Performing procedures and conditions (2024-2025)
        • Heart attack
        • Heart failure
        • Hip replacement
        • Knee replacement
    • Saint Luke's North Hospital
      • High Performing procedures and conditions (2024-2025)
        • Heart attack
  • Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute 
    • High Performing procedures and conditions (2024-2025)
      • Back Surgery (Spinal Fusion)
      • Hip replacement
      • Knee replacement

Learn more about the ranking methodology used by U.S. News & World Report.

American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation 

  • Cardiovascular Program Certification
    • Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
    • Saint Luke's East Hospital
    • Saint Luke’s North Hospital
    • Saint Luke's South Hospital
    • Hedrick Medical Center
  • Pulmonary Program Certification
    • Saint Luke's East Hospital
    • Hedrick Medical Center

American College of Surgeons

  • Commission on Cancer Accredited Program
    • Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
  • National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers 
    • Saint Luke's East Hospital
    • Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
    • Saint Luke's South Hospital 
    • Saint Luke's North Hospital

American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

  • Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
    • Stroke
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Gold Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus (2022)
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Advanced Therapy Award (2022)
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Association’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll award (2022)
    • Heart
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Gold Plus Receiving Achievement Award (STEMI) (2022)
      • Get With The Guidelines®– Gold Achievement Award (NSTEMI) (2022)
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Gold Plus Heart Failure (2022)
  • Saint Luke’s East Hospital
    • Stroke
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Gold Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus (2022)
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Association’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll (2022)
    • Heart
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Gold Achievement Award (NSTEMI) (2022)
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Silver Plus Receiving Achievement Award (STEMI) (2022)
  • Saint Luke’s South Hospital
    • Stroke
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Gold Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll (2022)
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Association’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll (2022)
    • Heart
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Silver Plus Receiving Achievement Award (STEMI) (2022)
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Silver Achievement Award (NSTEMI) (2022)
  • Saint Luke’s North Hospital
    • Stroke
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Gold Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll (2022)
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Association’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll (2022)
    • Heart
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Bronze Receiving Achievement Award (STEMI) (2022)
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Gold Achievement Award (NSTEMI) (2022)
  • Hedrick Medical Center
    • Heart
      • Get With The Guidelines®–Bronze Receiving Achievement Award (STEMI) (2022)

American Nurses Credentialing Center

  • Magnet Recognition (2004-present)
    • Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City

Becker’s Hospital Review

  • 100 Great Hospitals (2019, 2020)
    • Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City

  • Blue Distinction Center+ for Heart Transplant
    • Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
  • Blue Distinction Center+ for Spine Surgery
    • Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
  • Blue Distinction Center+ for Knee and Hip Replacement
    • Saint Luke’s East Hospital
    • Saint Luke’s North Hospital

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

  • Five-Star Quality Rating
    • Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
    • Saint Luke's North Hospital 
    • Saint Luke's South Hospital
    • Saint Luke's Home Health Care

Comprehensive Primary Care Plus

  • Saint Luke's Physician Group

Extracorporeal Life Support Organization

  • Gold Center of Excellence in Life Support Award (2015)
    • Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute

Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce

  • Certified Platinum Healthy KC Organization (2018 - present)
    • Saint Luke's Health System

Health Finance Management Association

  • Top Nine Healthcare Systems, Patient Communications Best Practices (2016) 
    • Saint Luke's Health System

Healthcare Equality Index

  • Leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality (2014 - present)
    • Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
    • Saint Luke’s North Hospital
    • Saint Luke’s South Hospital
    • Saint Luke’s East Hospital
  • Leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality (2017 - present)
    • Anderson County Hospital 
    • Hedrick Medical Center
    • Wright Memorial Hospital

​HealthStream

  • Excellence through Insight® (2015)
    • Saint Luke's Health System

Hospitals & Health Networks

  • Health Care’s Most Wired (1999-present)
    • Saint Luke’s Health System

IBM WatsonHealth

  • Top 15 Health System (2020)
    • Saint Luke's Health System

The Joint Commission

  • Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
    • Comprehensive Cardiac Center
    • Comprehensive Stroke Center
    • Advanced Certification in Heart Failure (2014)
  • Saint Luke’s South Hospital
    • Primary Stroke Certification
    • Gold Seal of Approval® for Orthopedic Joint Replacement for Hip and Knee Certification (2015)
    • Gold Seal of Approval® for Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Certification (2015)
  • Saint Luke’s East Hospital
    • Primary Stroke Certification
    • Primary Acute Myocardial Infarction Certification
    • Advanced Certification in Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement (2019)
  • Saint Luke's North Hospital
    • Primary Stroke Certification
  • Hedrick Medical Center
    • Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® (2014)
    • Gold Seal of Approval® (2013)

Leapfrog “A” Hospital Safety Grade

  • Saint Luke's Hospital
    • Spring 2023, Spring 2020
  • Saint Luke's East Hospital
    • Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
  • Saint Luke's South Hospital
    • Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020

Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP)

  • Accredited Center
    • Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
    • Saint Luke’s South Hospital
    • Saint Luke's North Hospital

Midwest Transplant Network

  • Excellence in Donation Tissue Conversion (2015)
    • Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
    • Saint Luke's North Hospital

Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services

  • Saint Luke’s Hospital
    • Level I Trauma Center
    • Level I Stroke Center
    • Level I STEMI Center
  • Saint Luke’s East Hospital
    • Level II Stroke Center
    • Level II STEMI Center
  • Saint Luke’s North Hospital
    • Level II Stroke Center
    • Level II STEMI Center
  • Hedrick Medical Center
    • Level III Stroke Center
    • Level IV STEMI Center
  • Wright Memorial Hospital
    • Level III Stroke Center
    • Level IV STEMI Center

Missouri Hospice & Palliative Care Association

  • 2017 Heart of Hospice
    • Saint Luke’s Hospice House

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR®)

  • Saint Luke’s Hospital
    • ACTION Registry® 2017 Silver Performance Achievement Award
  • Saint Luke’s East Hospital
    • ACTION Registry® 2017 Silver Performance Achievement Award
  • Saint Luke’s North Hospital
    • American College of Cardiology's Chest Pain – MI Registry™ 2019 Platinum Performance Achievement Award

National Multiple Sclerosis Society

  • Saint Luke's Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute Multiple Sclerosis Center
    • Center for Comprehensive Care

Newsweek

  • America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2023)
    • Saint Luke's Health System
  • America's Best Physical Rehabilitation Centers (2022)
    • Saint Luke's South Hospital
  • World’s Best Hospitals (2020)
    • Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City (US Top 100 Hospital)
  • Best Maternity Hospitals (2020)
    • Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City

Press Ganey

  • Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence Award (2016)
  • Press Ganey Pinnacle of Excellence Award (2016)
    • Hedrick Medical Center

U.S. Green Building Council

  • LEED Certified
    • Saint Luke's Rehabilitation Institute

Vizient

  • Saint Luke’s South Hospital
    • Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award for Community Hospitals (2018)
  • Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
    • Quality Leadership Rising Star Award (2018)