CLEVELAND, Mississippi (March 27, 2026) – Bolivar Medical Center has been named a recipient of ScionHealth’s Platinum Award, the highest designation for clinical excellence within the company’s National Quality Strategy (NQS). This recognition places Bolivar Medical among a select group of ScionHealth hospitals that achieved exceptional performance in 2025 – a noteworthy distinction given the strong quality focus across the entire system.

“We are thrilled to be recognized as a leader in quality across the ScionHealth network,” said Jimmy Young, CEO of Bolivar Medical Center. “This award is a powerful testament to our team’s dedication to clinical excellence and patient safety. It’s their expertise and daily commitment to compassionate, high-quality care that truly makes Bolivar Medical Center the area's top destination for healing.”

A Culture of Excellence

The ScionHealth National Quality Strategy promotes best practices and measures the success of its hospitals’ quality performance over a 12-month period. The rigorous program enables and empowers hospitals to continuously improve patient care, safety, and satisfaction with an underlying goal of zero patient harm. The company’s Platinum Award recipients for the 2025 year outperformed all other ScionHealth hospitals while achieving exceptional quality performance.

“ScionHealth is incredibly proud of the team at Bolivar Medical Center for achieving the 2025 Platinum Award,” said Russell Pigg, President, Community Hospital Division of ScionHealth. “Over the past three years, they’ve continued to build upon a culture where quality and safety are at the center of everything they do. This award celebrates their expertise and their commitment to best practices, acknowledging a team that consistently goes above and beyond to provide the best possible care for their community."

NQS and the Six Domains of Quality

The NQS framework evaluates hospitals across six essential domains of healthcare quality established by the Institute of Medicine. Bolivar Medical Center’s Platinum status was achieved through high marks in the following areas:

• Safe: Prioritizing harm reduction by minimizing infections (CLABSI, CAUTI, C. diff) and preventing falls through advanced safety training and reporting.
• Effective: Delivering evidence-based care, specifically through excellence in sepsis prevention, appropriate blood utilization, and opioid stewardship.
• Patient-Centered: Ensuring physical comfort and emotional well-being by involving families in care plans and achieving high HCAHPS patient survey scores.
• Timely: Reducing harmful delays by optimizing Emergency Department throughput and improving access to primary care.
• Efficient: Reducing waste and maximizing resources through strong teamwork, antibiotic stewardship, and improved length-of-stay metrics.
• Equitable: Closing the gap in healthcare disparities to ensure every patient has the opportunity to achieve their highest health potential.

“The gains our hospitals have made across all six criteria since the program’s inception are validating,” said Dr. Dean French, Chief Medical Officer at ScionHealth. “Through the ScionHealth National Quality Strategy, we challenged our facilities to raise the bar in terms of patient outcomes and experiences and the safety and efficiency in which they are delivered. Only 4% of our hospitals met our highest standards in year one – nearly 20% achieved top marks in 2025, our third year of the program. Our quality initiative is producing the desired results of driving clinical and cultural best practices at Bolivar Medical and across all of our hospitals.”

About Bolivar Medical Center

A part of ScionHealth®, Bolivar Medical Center (BMC) is a 164-bed, acute-care general hospital ‒ accredited by The Joint Commission ‒ that offers a full complement of medical and surgical services. BMC’s Emergency Department is a level 4 trauma center, and wait times are available on the website. The hospital also offers a wide array of outpatient services and includes a 35-bed nursing home, 12 swing beds, and 12 geropsychology beds. You can learn more about Bolivar Medical Center at www.bolivarmedical.com.

About ScionHealth

ScionHealth strives to deliver on its promise of high-quality, patient-centered hospital care by empowering the hands that heal to do what they do best. The health system is focused on driving innovation, serving its communities, and investing in people and technology to deliver compassionate patient care and excellent health outcomes. Based in Louisville, ScionHealth operates 77 hospital campuses (63 specialty hospitals and 14 community hospital campuses and associated health systems) in 26 states. For more information, please visit ScionHealth.com.