Det Norske Veritas
LMC achieves excellence by improving quality and patient safety through DNV hospital accreditation, managing infection risk and clinical program certification. This accreditation program directly addresses CMS requirements while leveraging guidance and best practices of clinical specialty organizations across healthcare.
Det Norske Veritas
The ISO 9001 standard demonstrates LMC’s commitment to consistency, continual improvement and customer satisfaction. This certification focuses on the effectiveness of quality processes in order to work more efficiently and improve process performance.
American College of Surgeons
Lexington Medical Center has been verified as a Level III Trauma Center by the Verification Review Committee (VRC), an ad hoc committee of the Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). This achievement recognizes the trauma center's dedication to providing optimal care for injured patients.
Urgent Care Association
Lexington Medical Center has been accredited by the Urgent Care Association (UCA) for having high-quality healthcare through safety, quality, and scope of services—the highest level distinction for urgent care centers.
Det Norske Veritas
This certification identifies that Lexington Medical Center has the resources and commitment to provide the best possible stroke care by combining the right equipment, personnel and training to quickly assess and treat strokes. Lexington Medical Center integrates the requirements of hospital accreditation with the guidelines of the Brain Attack Coalition and recommendations of the American Stroke Association. Medical professionals specializing in stroke care work together to address the full spectrum of stroke care – diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and education – and establish clear metrics to evaluate outcomes.
The Leapfrog Group
Lexington Medical Center has received an 'A' Hospital Safety Grade from the Leapfrog Group for Fall 2023. This national distinction celebrates Lexington Medical Center’s achievements in protecting hospital patients from preventable harm and errors.
Det Norske Veritas
DNV's Orthopaedic Center of Excellence designation affirms an organization’s excellence in the provision of diagnostic services, surgical services and therapies related to orthopaedic care. Lexington Medical Center’s Total Joint Program provides a patient-centered experience that focuses on patient and family preparation and education to ensure patient safety and prompt recovery.
Society of Thoracic Surgeons
The hospital earned a distinguished three-star rating for its patient care and outcomes in aortic valve replacement (AVR), coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and MVRR (Mitral Valve Replacement and Repair) from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. This rating, which denotes the highest category of quality, places the hospital among the elite for AVR + CABG + MVRR surgery in the United States and Canada.
American College of Cardiology
Lexington Medical Center is one of only 212 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor. This award recognizes our commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that we have reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to the standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.
American College of Cardiology
This accreditation is granted to facilities that have committed to providing and demonstrating quality care and outcomes for patients suspected of having an acute coronary event.
American College of Cardiology
This accreditation is given to facilities that have demonstrated expertise and commitment in treating patients who come to a cardiac cath lab for care, including diagnostic catheterizations and percutaneous coronary intervention procedures.
American College of Cardiology
This accreditation is given to facilities that have demonstrated expertise and commitment in treating patients receiving transcatheter valve repair and replacement procedures.
American College of Cardiology
This Accreditation is the result of diligent work by leading electrophysiologists. It incorporates recent guidelines and expert consensus statements by recognized professional organizations regarding the care of the electrophysiology patient.
American College of Cardiology
The HeartCARE Center™ National Distinction of Excellence is the highest honor the ACC awards. It recognizes hospitals for commitment to comprehensive, high-quality culture and cardiovascular care through accreditations and ongoing registry reporting. Lexington Medical Center is the first hospital in South Carolina to receive this prestigious distinction.
Aetna
Lexington Medical Center has been designated an Aetna Institute of Quality® (IOQ) Cardiac Care Facility for Cardiac Surgery for consistently delivering evidence-based, quality care.
American Heart Association
Lexington Medical Center’s participation in Mission: Lifeline® demonstrated its commitment to quality care. Receiving hospitals earn Gold Plus recognition for achieving a composite score of 85% or higher. The Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Center quality achievement composite score requires a compliance of ≥85% for arrival to ECG within 10 minutes and ≥75% in all other indicators within a consecutive 24-month interval to improve the quality of care for STEMI patients.
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association recognize Lexington Medical Center for achieving 85% or higher compliance with all Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Achievement Measures and 75% or higher compliance with five or more Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Quality Measures for two or more consecutive years. Thrombolytic therapy was achieved within 60 minutes in >85% of applicable acute ischemic stroke patients to improve quality of patient care and outcomes.
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association recognize Lexington Medical Center for achieving 90% or higher compliance for 12 consecutive months with the Get With The Guidelines® Target: Type 2 Diabetes - Stroke “Overall Diabetes Cardiovascular Initiative Composite Score” component measures, specific to the quality care for patients with type 2 diabetes.
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association recognized Lexington Medical Center in 2022 with the Gold Plus Get With The Guidelines® for Heart Failure award for achieving 85% or higher in all four of the achievement measures and for achieving 75% or higher in at least four of 10 quality measures for at least 24 months.
American Orthopaedic Association
Own the Bone enrolled hospitals and practices that achieve a 75% compliance rate with at least 5 of the 10 Own the Bone prevention measures, based on patients screened and entered into the registry during the preceding 12 month period, receive a special recognition as “Own the Bone Star Performers” in the annual recognition ad in U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” Guide. Through their participation in Own the Bone and recognition as an Own the Bone Star Performer, institutions demonstrate a commitment to helping patients understand their risk for future fractures and the steps they can take to prevent them.
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
Lexington Medical Center is proud to be a Blue Distinction Center for Knee and Hip Replacement by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. It shows how the hospital has demonstrated a commitment to excellence when it comes to delivering quality care, treatment expertise and patient results in knee and hip replacement.
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
Lexington Medical Center is proud to be a Blue Distinction Center for Spine Surgery by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. It shows how the hospital has demonstrated a commitment to excellence when it comes to delivering quality care, treatment expertise and patient results in spine surgery.
Aetna
Lexington Medical Center is proud to be an Aetna Institute of Quality for Bariatric Surgery. This distinction shows how the hospital meets (and surpasses) criteria for experience, standards of care, follow-up support, efficiency and accreditation. In addition, it means that Lexington Medical Center has a quality improvement program that includes data sharing, that at least 75% of surgical cases are followed up for 12 months after surgery, and that the hospital possesses an organized aftercare program for at least 12 months.
MBSAQIP
Lexington Medical Center meets all criteria as a Comprehensive Center according to quality standards established to deliver safe, high quality bariatric patient care. These standards ensure that bariatric surgical patients receive a multidisciplinary program (not just a surgical procedure), which improves patient outcomes and long-term success.
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
Lexington Medical Center is proud to be a Blue Distinction Center for Bariatric Surgery. This distinction shows how the hospital provides a full range of bariatric surgery care, including surgical care, postoperative care, outpatient follow-up care and patient education. It also shows that Lexington Medical Center has lower complication rates and fewer readmissions.
National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers
The National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers is a consortium of national, professional organizations focused on breast health and dedicated to the improvement of quality care and outcomes of patients with diseases of the breast through evidence-based standards, as well as patient and professional education.
American College of Radiology
Breast Imaging Center of Excellence designation is awarded to breast imaging centers that achieve excellence by seeking and earning accreditation in all of the ACR’s voluntary breast-imaging accreditation programs and modules, in addition to the mandatory Mammography Accreditation Program.
American College of Radiology
This seal indicates that a facility is an ACR Designated Lung Cancer Screening Center and has at least one accredited CT unit that meets the minimum requirements for acceptable lung cancer screening performance.
American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer
This designation is granted only to the facilities that have committed to provide the best in cancer diagnosis and treatment and are able to comply with Commission on Cancer standards.
Money and The Leapfrog Group
This designation is granted to facilities that have the best abilities to perform bariatric surgeries, with a close look at hospital volume, safety, surgeon privilege and appropriateness.
Group Accreditations
One of the key quality indicators of medical care and health care service is independent audit by professional associations and leading organizations. Here are a few organizations that evaluate Lexington Medical Center’s services regularly.
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
- American College of Radiology
- American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer
- American Heart Association
- American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
- American Stroke Association
- Det Norske Veritas
- Duke Health
- National Research Corporation
- Press Ganey
