Awards & Accreditations
National Park Medical Center (NPMC) offers community focused healthcare services in Hot Springs, AR. The people of NPMC have dedicated themselves to providing the highest quality of health care to the people of Garland County, AR and the surrounding areas. Today, our physicians, nurses, and other professionals take great pride in our hospital’s inviting atmosphere and the quality of its services. Accredited by The Joint Commission, National Park Medical Center offers an extensive range of medical and surgical services.
Laboratory Accreditation
Congress passed the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) in 1988 establishing quality standards for all laboratory testing to ensure the accuracy, reliability and timeliness of patient test results regardless of where the test was performed. Our lab is CLIA licensed. Click here to find out more about the important lab guidelines set forth by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and administered by The Joint Commission Laboratory Accreditation.
Cardiologists on NPMC’s Medical Staff have been continuously involved in national as well as international landmark studies conducted to compare various medications in the effectiveness of treatment on cardiac patients. In addition, the medical center is periodically involved in Health Care Quality Improvement Projects, statewide cardiology studies sponsored by the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Quality.
Home Health
Our Home Health is a OCS HomeCare Elite agency. The HomeCare Elite™ is a compilation of the top performing home health agencies in the United States. Annually, the top 25 percent of home care agencies nationwide are identified. OCS HomeCare uses publicly available data from Home Health Compare and the CMS Cost Reports to create the HomeCare Elite list of agencies. Three domains of performance were cumulatively evaluated—quality of care, quality improvement, and financial performance.
Our Adult Inpatient Rehab department is CARF Accredited. CARF (the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body whose mission is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served. Founded in 1966, the accrediting body establishes consumer-focused standards to help organizations measure and improve the quality of their programs and services. This certification decision represents the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded to a rehabilitation organization and shows the organization’s substantial conformance to the CARF standards.
Pink Ribbon Facility
National Park Medical Center is part of an elite group of facilities across the country recognized as a certified Pink Ribbon Facility. As a Pink Ribbon Facility, NPMC is committed to the fight against breast cancer and takes pride in providing every woman who comes to us for a mammogram with the latest in digital mammography. NPMC provides the latest in breast imaging quality both through mammography and through prone stereotactic breast biopsy equipment.