Best Places To Work – PMC top healthcare provider – Hospital third in large division
By TEDDY PAYNTER
Staff Writer
AMONG THE ELITE: Pikeville Medical Center employees are all smiles after learning the hospital finished as the top-ranked healthcare provider during the 2010 Best Places to Work in Kentucky awards banquet, held April 21 at the Lexington Convention Center.
LEXINGTON — For many years Pikeville Medical Center (PMC) has provided an environment where people love to come to work, in addition to providing patients with quality regional healthcare in a Christian environment.
Once again, PMC has been honored as one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky. On April 21, the annual Best Places to Work awards banquet was held at the Lexington Convention Center. Pikeville Medical Center placed third overall in the large company division. Significantly, no other hospital ranked in the top five.
This achievement would not have been possible without the dedication of the medical center’s more than 1,700 employees. PMC has improved its rankings every year it has participated in the Best Places to Work competition. The hospital ranked one spot up from last year and will continue to strive to become number one overall.
“Our employees demonstrate the very best in healthcare services,” said Walter E. May, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pikeville Medical Center. “This award further validates our commitment to our patients to provide quality regional healthcare in a Christian environment.”
The prestigious honor adds to an already impressive list of accolades for PMC. The hospital has been named National Hospital of the Year by the American Alliance of Healthcare Providers and was recognized as one of the nation’s Best Places to Work by Modern Healthcare Magazine.
Melissa Coleman, Interim Vice President of Human Resources at Pikeville Medical Center and the chair of the hospital’s Employer of Choice Team, said, “Our employees are the reason PMC continues to be recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky. It is through their dedication and teamwork we continue to excel and proudly accept this prestigious distinction.”
The Best Places to Work in Kentucky, which began in 2004, is a celebration of elite employers. PMC was among 64 large and small/medium companies recognized during the awards ceremony for their outstanding achievements.
“The passion of our people and the compassion of our mission have guided us into unprecedented levels of medicine over the years,” said Juanita Deskins, Interim Chief Operating Officer. “Awards such as this show that our employees share our commitment to excellent care.”
The goal of Best Places to Work is to raise the bar among the state’s employers and create excellence and employee satisfaction in the workplace that will attract talented people.
The Kentucky Society for Human Resource Management and the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce are co-founders of the program.
The program is open to all publicly or privately held organizations that have at least 25 employees working in the state.
Through Best Places to Work, PMC and other employers are able to measure employees’ workplace satisfaction each year.
A two-part process was used to determine the Best Places to Work in Kentucky. The first part — worth 25 percent of the total evaluation — consisted of evaluating each nominated company’s workplace policies, practices, and demographics. The second part utilized an employee survey to measure the employee experience and was worth 75 percent of the total evaluation. The combined scores determined the top companies and the final rankings.
Other local companies were also honored — PMC congratulates Appalachian Wireless for ranking third in the small/medium division and Hazard Community and Technical College for ranking 31st in the large division.
