Shriners Hospitals for Children � Cincinnati has received Magnet� Designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Magnet� Recognition Program recognizes quality patient care, nursing excellence, and innovations in professional nursing practice. It provides consumers with a benchmark to measure the quality of care they can expect to receive.

The Cincinnati Shriners Hospital, which specializes in pediatric burn care, has been working toward Magnet� designation for several years. The Cincinnati hospital is the first within the Shriners Hospitals for Children health care system to receive this prestigious award and the first pediatric hospital in the greater Cincinnati area to receive the honor.

�For many years, we have felt that our nursing care is truly exceptional,� said Angie Allen-Jackson, RN, MHA, director of patient care services at the Cincinnati hospital. �Receiving this award verifies that we deliver state-of-the-art, quality nursing care to our patients every day. While this is a nursing award, it is the collaborative effort by all staff that brought us this recognition.�

Shriners Hospitals for Children is an international health care system of 22 hospitals dedicated to providing specialty pediatric care, innovative research and outstanding teaching programs. Children up to age 18 with orthopaedic conditions, burns of all degrees, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate are eligible for admission and receive all care at no charge � regardless of financial need or relationship to a Shriner. The Shriners Hospital in Cincinnati is a regional facility providing acute and rehabilitative care for pediatric burns of any size. For more information, please visit www.shrinershospitals.org.