The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has designated Geisinger Medical Center as a Magnet hospital. The Magnet redesignation application requires information, data and supplemental documents that reflect the application manual in effect at time of documentation submission. The new study, published in the July/August issue of the Journal of Nursing Administration, found that's not necessarily the case, Trinkoff said. Morton Plant Mease was the first four-hospital health system in Florida to earn Magnet status in 2003. On average, Magnet hospitals received an adjusted net increase in inpatient income of about $104 to $127 per discharge after earning Magnet status, amounting to … Nurses at Magnet hospitals should also have a say in patient care and be involved in data collection. I pulled the above from the ANCC website re: eligibility requirements for Magnet hospitals. Geisinger joins an elite group of 15 Pennsylvania hospitals — and only 294 hospitals in the United States — that have achieved Magnet status. Past recipients include the Mayo Clinic, the American Academy of Nursing, the University of Colorado Hospital and the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital and Pitt County Memorial Hospital's Bariatric Nursing Consortium. ANCC’s Magnet Recognition Program® identifies superior quality in nursing care and is the highest national honor for nursing excellence. A Magnet status hospital is supposed to be a place where nursing there are low turnover of the nursing staff, good grievance resolution, nurses have high job satisfaction, and provides exemplary patient outcome. Since then, only 258 of the nation’s 7,569 hospitals have received the honor, and only one in Maryland—The Johns Hopkins Hospital, which applied for and received the designation in 2003. Currently, only 7% of U.S. health care organizations out of over 6,300 U.S. hospitals have achieved Magnet recognition. On average, it takes a hospital 4.25 years to complete the process of attaining Magnet Status, at an average cost of $500,000 annually, for an average total investment of $2,125,000. And the benefits of Magnet status extend beyond patients and nurses to the hospitals themselves. Some hospitals have chosen a different path than Magnet. Only the Commission on Magnet may approve any exception to this criterion. "While the work and role of nursing may be improved because it is a magnet hospital, we found that consideration of nurses' work schedules is not really incorporated into the magnet hospitals,” she said. Does this mean the next time their Magnet certification comes up for review, they are going to lose it? It was redesignated in 2008. This year, the Hospital’s Magnet status is up for review. The Magnet Prize is an additional honor for those organizations that take the 14 Forces of Magnetism to new levels. The most recent strike on June 10th by MN nurses was a ULP strike. “Achieving Magnet designation is a testament to the high quality of care our nurses provide every … While 95% of existing Magnet hospitals apply for redesignation, about 5% do not. In 1999, Wake Forest Baptist became the first hospital in the Carolinas to earn magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. A study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative found that the revenue increases achieved by obtaining Magnet status more than offset the costs of achieving it. At that cost, the researchers calculate that hospitals begin to realize payback from achieving Magnet Status in two to three years. It was re-certified in 2003, 2009 and 2014. 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