Honors & Awards

In addition to being named a “Best Regional Hospital,” St. Luke’s received “High Performing” ratings in 15 specialty areas.

St. Luke’s Hospital placed in the top 10% of hospitals nationally for the Medicare Quality Star Ratings by the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) with a 5-star rating.

St. Luke’s Hospital among the top 5% of hospitals nationwide based on an analysis of patient experience data. St. Luke’s is the only hospital in Missouri that has achieved this award 13 years in a row.

Based on Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) data, St. Luke’s Hospital received an overall star rating of 5 (on a 5-point scale).

St. Luke’s is the only hospital in Missouri to achieve this 2024 designation and is among the top 5% of hospitals nationwide for cardiac surgery for superior outcomes in coronary artery bypass grafting procedures and heart valve surgery.

Healthgrades® Vascular Surgery Excellence Award, 2024
Healthgrades® Surgical Care Excellence Award, 2024

St. Luke’s Center for Cancer Care has been recognized as one of only six hospitals in the state of Missouri to receive this prestigious honor, and one of only 175 across the nation.

St. Luke’s Surrey Place has been named a “Best Nursing Home for Short-Stay Rehabilitation” by U.S. News & World Report for two years in a row. This distinction places St. Luke’s Surrey Place among the top 1.5% of nursing homes in Missouri to receive this short-stay rehabilitation top rating.

St. Luke’s Home Health Services is ranked in the top 5% of more than 2,500 home health providers and St. Luke’s Hospice Services also received the 2022 SHPBest™ “Superior Performer” Caregiver Satisfaction Award!

In its inaugural list of Best Hospitals for Maternity, U.S. News has recognized St. Luke’s as “High Performing” in caring for patients with uncomplicated pregnancies. To be recognized among the Best Hospitals for Maternity, hospitals had to excel on multiple quality metrics that matter to expectant families, including complication rates, C-sections, whether births were scheduled too early in pregnancy and how successfully each hospital supported breastfeeding.

For the 9th straight year, St. Luke’s has earned the Women’s Choice Award as one of America’s Best Hospitals. The 2023 honor recognizes St. Luke’s as one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experience, Best Hospital for Comprehensive Breast Care, Cancer Care, Heart Care, Mammogram Imaging, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Obstetrics, Orthopedics, Patient Safety, Stroke Care, Bariatric Surgery, Orthopedics, and Women’s Services.

Each August, the much-anticipated “Top Doctors” issue hits the newsstands, naming the best of the best in each specialty in the field of medicine. In spectacular fashion, nearly all of our St. Luke’s physicians graced the 2023 issue!

St. Luke’s Hospital’s Heart & Vascular Institute has earned the top three-star rating from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) for its patient care and outcomes in isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedures. The three out of three-star rating, which denotes the highest category of quality, places St. Luke’s Hospital among the elite for heart bypass surgery in the United States and Canada.

St. Luke’s Hospital’s Heart & Vascular Institute has earned the top three-star rating from The TVT Registry™ (Transcatheter Valve Therapy), a benchmarking tool developed to track patient safety and real-world outcomes related to the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure. The three out of three-star rating, which denotes the highest category of quality, places St. Luke’s Hospital among only 8% of programs in the United States to receive the rating.

The Spirit of Women Health Network named St. Luke’s Hospital a Spirit of Women Premier Hospital. The national designation is based on a comprehensive evaluation of innovation and excellence in women’s healthcare and community outreach. The standards were developed by the Spirit of Women Health Network in consultation with the Office on Women’s Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.