March 24, 2025
COLUMBIA, Tenn. — Maury Regional Medical Center has attained Magnet® recognition for the second time, reflecting the medical center’s ongoing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, implementing advanced nursing practices and adopting a positive work environment for nursing professionals.
The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program distinguishes health care organizations that meet rigorous standards for nursing excellence. This credential is the highest national honor for nursing practice and follows an extensive application and evaluation process.
Maury Regional Medical Center first earned Magnet designation in 2020. To achieve initial recognition, organizations must pass a rigorous and lengthy process that demands widespread participation from leadership and staff. This process includes an electronic application, written patient care documentation, an on-site visit and a review by the Commission on Magnet Recognition.
Health care organizations must reapply for Magnet recognition every four years. An organization reapplying must repeat the initial steps in addition to providing documented evidence to demonstrate how staff members sustained and improved Magnet concepts, performance and quality over the four-year period since the organization received its initial recognition.
In this most recent application cycle, Maury Regional Medical Center outperformed the benchmark and comparison cohort for the majority of eight quarters on 100% of inpatient units in the following exemplars:
– Central line-associated blood stream infection
– Device-related hospital-acquired pressure injuries
– Patient experience data for careful listening, patient education, responsiveness and safety
– Vesicant extravasation rate (specific to the Emergency Department rather than all units)
Research demonstrates that Magnet recognition provides specific benefits to health care organizations and their communities, including higher job satisfaction among nurses and higher patient satisfaction with nurse communication, availability of help and receipt of discharge information.
More than 30% of employees at Maury Regional Medical Center are nurses. As a Magnet organization, the medical center utilizes a shared governance nursing practice model that empowers nurses to participate actively in decisions that shape their practice and is committed to encouraging ongoing professional development — ranging from an ANCC-accredited RN residency program for new graduate nurses to mentorship opportunities and clinical advancement programs. In addition, the organization is a leader in the region for implementing advanced technology, including robotic surgery capabilities, a state-of-the-art Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, modern Critical Care Unit and more.
