Penn Highlands Healthcare Achieves New Awards and Accreditations

Penn Highlands Healthcare and two of its hospitals recently received prestigious awards and accreditations.

For the fifth consecutive year, Penn Highlands Healthcare received recognition as one of Pennsylvania Business Central's Top 100 Organizations. The health system joins others on this prestigious list of organizations that have made significant contributions to Central Pennsylvania's economy, social progress and philanthropy. The organizations on the list were selected by Pennsylvania Business Central's subscribers.

Penn Highlands Brookville received two awards – the 2025 Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania Donate Life Pennsylvania Hospital Challenge Platinum Designation which is a high-level award that recognizing hospitals for outstanding proactive efforts to promote organ, eye and tissue donation. In addition, the hospital received the 2025 Crothall Healthcare Fiscal Year Quarter 1 HCAPHPS Challenge Award. This quarterly recognition program is for Environmental Services teams that achieve top performance in patient satisfaction scores. It highlights teams that excel in maintaining clean, safe environments.

Penn Highlands Brookville also received many accreditations including:

• 2026-2028 Echocardiology Accreditation – Echo Lab
• 2026-2029 American College of Radiology (ACR) Ultrasound General Gynecological Vascular (including Peripheral Venous, Cerebrovascular, Renal Vasculature, Aorta)
• 2025 mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) Certification – Mammography
• 2025-2028 American College of Radiology (ACR) – Nuclear Medicine Accreditation of the Commission on Quality and Safety for Planar Nuclear Cardiology
• 2025-2028 American College of Radiology (ACR) MRI Body, Head, MRA, MSK, Spine
• 2024-2027 American College of Radiology (ACR) All Digital/3D Mammography
• 2024-2027 American College of Radiology (ACR) Computed Tomography Accreditation of the Commission on Quality and Safety for Adult and Pediatric Patients Head/Neck, Chest Abdomen

Penn Highlands Mon Valley was designated One of America's 250 Best Hospitals for Overall Clinical Excellence by Healthgrades for 2026. This award recognizes the top 1% to 5% of U.S. hospitals that demonstrate superior, consistent clinical outcomes across 31 common procedures and conditions. On average, patients at these hospitals have a 32.8% lower risk of dying and fewer complications.