Congratulations ® to the following ACS NSQIP hospitals that were deemed “Meritorious” with regard to their composite quality score in the outcome areas of: Mortality, Cardiac, Respiratory (pneumonia), Unplanned Intubation, Ventilator > 48 hours, Renal Failure, SSI, and UTI for All Surgery cases for the Performance Period of January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2013. Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago, IL *Citrus Valley Medical Center Queen of the Valley Hospital West Covina, CA Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center Vallejo, CA Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville, GA *Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Park Ridge, IL Doctors Hospital Coral Gables, FL Mayo Clinic Florida Jacksonville, FL El Camino Hospital – Mountain View Mountain View, CA Memorial Hermann Hospital – TMC Houston, TX Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Charlotte, NC Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital Denver, CO Memorial Hermann Katy Katy, TX Faxton St. Luke's Healthcare Utica, NY *Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center Houston, TX Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Philadelphia, PA Memorial Hermann Northeast Humble, TX *Saint Vincent Hospital – Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY Sequoia Hospital Redwood City, CA Albany Medical Center Albany, NY *American University of Beirut Medical Center Beirut, Lebanon Baptist Hospital of Miami Miami, FL *Boone Hospital Center Columbia, MO *Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital Boston, MA Florida Hospital Waterman Tavares, FL *Hackensack University Medical Center Hackensack, NJ Carolinas Medical Center – Mercy Charlotte, NC Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA *Christiana Care Health System Newark, DE Kaiser Foundation Hospital – Antioch Antioch, CA Citrus Valley Medical Center Intercommunity Hospital Covina, CA Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center San Francisco, CA * Hospitals that have received recognition for two or more consecutive years. *Mills Peninsula Health Services Burlingame, CA *Morristown Medical Center Morristown, NJ Mount Saint Joseph Hospital, Providence Health Care Vancouver, BC *Mount Sinai Beth Israel New York, NY NYU Langone Medical Center New York, NY *PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend Springfield, OR *South Miami Hospital Miami, FL The Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY UBC Hospital Vancouver, BC University of California San Francisco Medical Center San Francisco, CA University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA