November 2006 – The United States Department of Health and Human Services recognized UH Case Medical Center with the Medal of Honor. UH Case Medical Center was one of 300 hospitals nationwide to receive this award for increasing organ donation. UH Case Medical Center was recognized for achieving a life-saving organ donation rate of 75 percent of eligible donors since January 2005 versus the 55 percent average for all hospitals.
October 2006 – The Leapfrog Group, a national coalition of employers and healthcare purchasing organizations, recently named UH Case Medical Center one of 50 on its inaugural Top Hospitals list based on the most recent results of its Hospital Quality and Safety Survey, which included responses from 1,263 facilities nationwide.
October 2006 – UH Case Medical Center was named an American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS) Center of Excellence. The ASBS Center of Excellence designation recognizes surgical programs with a demonstrated track record of favorable outcomes in bariatric surgery.
September 2006 – University Hospitals Richmond Medical Center was awarded the Commitment to Excellence Award from The Ohio Partnership for Excellence (OPE). This award recognizes hospitals that have demonstrated a serious commitment to excellence and a process for continuous improvement. OPE is a non-profit organization that utilizes the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to help organizations achieve improved results.
September 2006 – For the second consecutive year, UH Case Medical Center's Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) earned the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence. The MICU is one of two units, nationally, to have ever achieved this award two years consecutively.
September 2006 – For the fourth consecutive year, UH was named a recipient of the Employers Resource Council's "North Coast 99 Award." NorthCoast 99 recognizes ninety-nine of the best places to work in Northeast Ohio based on compensation, benefits, health and safety, training and education, diversity, community service, recruitment and retention and employee communication.
September 2006 – Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and its affiliates attained an overall institutional ranking of 12th among the nation's 122 medical schools medical school rankings from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In addition to the increased overall ranking, the following School of Medicine departments also celebrated upward movement in their individual department rankings: Anesthesiology, Dermatology, Family Medicine, Medicine, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology and Psychiatry.
July 2006 – The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the premier national, voluntary cardiovascular data registry that provides institutions with the ability to measure and improve quality of cardiovascular care, ranked UH Case Medical Center in the top 10th percentile of the 460 sites reporting to ACC for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), or angioplasty.
July 2006 – U.S. News & World Report released its rankings of America's Best Hospitals clinical programs, and UH was recognized for excellence in 13 specialties; Cancer, Digestive, Ear, Nose & Throat, Endocrinology, Gynecology, Heart & Heart Surgery, Kidney Disease, Neurology and Neurosurgery (including stroke and seizure disorders), Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Respiratory Disorders and Urology. In pediatrics, UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital climbed to No. 4 in the nation, while remaining the No. 1 children's hospital in the Midwest and Region.
June 2006 – UH Case Medical Center's Comprehensive Epilepsy Program was awarded Fourth Level Epilepsy Status (the highest designation) by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers for voluntarily maintaining quality comprehensive epilepsy services and personnel.
April 2006 – UH Case Medical Center achieved Magnet status, a designation awarded by The American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing services, exemplary nursing leadership and quality patient care.
April 2006 – The Geauga County Development and Improvement Corporation honored University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center as one of the top organizations in Geauga County. The award was given in acknowledgment of the hospital's economic impact in the county as well as its commitment to the community.
March 2006 – UH Case Medical Center was identified as a winner in Solucient's 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success and was the only recognized "major teaching hospital" in Cleveland.
February 2006 – The Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories awarded accreditation to UH Case Medical Center's Adult Echocardiography Laboratory in all three cardiac echo modalities by Adult Transthoracic Echo, Adult Transesophageal Echo and Adult Stress Echocardiography.
February 2006 – UH moved from a #61 ranking (in 2005) to #38 in Modern Healthcare magazine's Top 100 list of the most integrated health systems in the country.
January 2006 – UH was recognized as a winner of the Healthy 50 by HealthSpace Museum, earning recognition as one of the best companies to work for in Northern Ohio with regard to the management and promotion of workplace health and wellness