Healthgrades® Awards
Best Specialty
One of Healthgrades’ America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Coronary Intervention™ in 2023
Cardiac
Recipient of the Healthgrades’ 2023 Coronary Intervention Excellence Award
Named among the top 5% in the nation for coronary interventional procedures in 2023
Five-star recipient for coronary interventional procedures in 2023
Critical Care
Five-star recipient for treatment of sepsis for 11 years in a row (2013-2023)
Five-star recipient for treatment of respiratory failure in 2023
Get With the Guidelines Awards
 | MetroWest Medical Center – Framingham Union Hospital American Heart Association 2019 Get With the Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus & Target: Stroke Honor Roll Award MetroWest Medical Center – Leonard Morse Hospital American Heart Association 2019 Get with the Guidelines Stroke Participation Award |
Mission: Lifeline Awards
 | MetroWest Medical Center - Framingham Union Hospital American Heart Association 2023 Mission: Lifeline Award Bronze: STEMI Receiving |
 | MetroWest Medical Center - Framingham Union Hospital American Heart Association 2021 Mission: Lifeline Award Gold: Receiving |
 | MetroWest Medical Center - Framingham Union Hospital American Heart Association 2020 Mission: Lifeline Award Gold Plus: Receiving |
AACN Beacon Award for Excellence
 | The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), Aliso Viejo, California, recently granted a bronze-level Beacon Award for Excellence to MetroWest Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit. MetroWest Medical Center is one of six hospitals in Massachusetts to receive a Beacon Award for Excellence. |
Joint Commission - 2018 Gold Seal of Approval
 | MetroWest Medical Center has received the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval®, a symbol of quality that reflects our commitment to meeting performance standards and providing safe and effective patient care. |
Aetna
 | MetroWest Medical Center has been designated by Aetna into its Elective Delivery Infant Safe Program. This designation recognizes hospital delivery programs that DO NOT encourage elective deliveries to be scheduled prior to 39 completed weeks of pregnancy since electing to deliver PRIOR to 39 weeks can be harmful to a mother and her baby by increasing the risk of premature birth and the need to spend more time in the hospital or in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). |
American College of Cardiology
 | MetroWest Medical Center has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR ACTION Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2017. MetroWest Medical Center is one of only 193 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor. The award recognizes MetroWest Medical Center’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that MetroWest Medical Center has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations. |
Blue Cross Blue Shields Distinction
 | MetroWest Medical Center has been named a Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Distinction® Center for Maternity Care, for our Bariatric Surgery Program and also for knee and hip replacements. |