Northside was recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in 2025 by workplace culture and compensation monitoring site Comparably. The hospital ranked among all Top Large employers (more than 500 employees) for Best Company for Women, Best Company for Diversity, Best Company Outlook, Best Career Growth, Best Leadership Teams and Best HR Teams.
The Northside system was honored by Newsweek in 2024-2025 across multiple awards programs, including Greatest Workplaces for Women, World's Best Hospitals 2025 and Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity.
The Northside system ranked among Forbes’ 2024 list of America’s Best Employers By State and Becker’s Hospital Review’s 2025 list of Great Community Hospitals.
Northside hospitals have been recognized by HealthGrades with multiple awards for superior quality care and performance:
Northside hospitals have earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for health care quality, receiving select Disease-Specific Care Certifications, including:
All hospitals have received quality achievement awards from the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines®, including:
Northside hospitals also received the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline® Regional Award.
Northside Hospital Atlanta is the first in the country to receive Maternal Levels of Care (MLC) Verification from The Joint Commission, in collaboration with the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH). Northside also is the first in Georgia to receive a Level IV Maternal Center Designation from DPH. Northside Cherokee and Northside Forsyth were named Level III maternal-care-verified facilities.
U.S. News & World Report rated Northside high performing in 2025-2026 across multiple specialties, procedures and conditions:
The Cardio-Oncology Program at Northside Hospital is an International Cardio-Oncology Society gold-certified Center of Excellence.
Northside Hospital Heart Institute received the Silver Level ELSO Award Of Excellence in Life Support from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) and is on the Path to Excellence. The honor distinguishes Northside for providing exceptional care in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
The Northside Duluth ICU/IMCU received the Beacon Award for Excellence® gold designation, and the Northside Gwinnett Surgical-Trauma ICU received the silver designation, from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Northside Gwinnett is verified as a Level II Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons and the Georgia Department of Public Health, Office of EMS and Trauma.
All five Northside hospitals are designated by the Georgia Department of Public Health, Office of EMS and Trauma as Primary Stroke Centers and Emergency Cardiac Care Centers. Northside Gwinnett is designated as a Level I Emergency Cardiac Care Center; Northside Atlanta, Northside Cherokee and Northside Forsyth are Level II Centers; and Northside Duluth is designated as a Level III Center.
Northside Gwinnett’s computerized tomography (CT) department was awarded the HeartFlow® CT Quality Award for excellence in cardiac imaging.
The bariatric surgery programs at Northside Atlanta, Northside Cherokee, Northside Duluth and Northside Forsyth are accredited by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program.
For the 16th consecutive year (2009-2024), The Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at Northside Hospital Cancer Institute ranked among the best in the U.S. for bone marrow transplant survival outcomes, per data reported by the Centers for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research in their Final 2024 Transplant Center Survival Report.
Northside Hospital was selected as one of seven recipients of the "Improving the Precision Oncology Care Pathway" grant, a national initiative led by the Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC) in collaboration with Eli Lilly and Co.
The National Pancreas Foundation recognized Northside as a Clinical Center of Excellence for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
The Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses (AMSN) awarded Northside Duluth’s Medical Telemetry Unit a PRISM (Premier Recognition In the Specialty of Medical-Surgical) Award for exemplary practice of medical-surgical units.
Northside Atlanta was awarded a three-year accreditation by the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (American College of Surgeons).
The Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation recognized the Northside Hospital Cancer Institute Blood Cancer Program as a 2024-25 Center of Excellence in the diagnosis and treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes.
Northside Hospital Cherokee earned the 2023 Mended Hearts Hospital of the Year award for the Southern Region.
The Georgia Hospital Association presented its Patient Safety and Quality Award to Northside Hospital Behavioral Health Services. The hospital won first place for its project “Countering Workplace Violence: The Implementation of Behavioral Health Emergency Response Team.”
The Northside Hospital Breast Care Program is accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (American College of Surgeons), which recognizes centers from around the country that have achieved the highest quality breast care programs.
Northside's Breast Care Centers are designated as Breast Imaging Centers of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR). Northside Imaging Centers have additional ACR accreditations in Breast Ultrasound, CT, Mammography, MRI, Nuclear Medicine, PET, Stereotactic and Ultrasound.
In 2025, Northside Hospital Sleep Disorders Centers marked 25 consecutive years of accreditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
Northside Hospital Cancer Institute is accredited as an Integrated Network Cancer Program by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer.
Northside hospitals in Atlanta, Cherokee and Forsyth have received NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Health system Elders) designation, demonstrating our commitment and continued progress in improving quality, and enhancing the patient and family experience.
Northside Atlanta is the only Georgia provider recognized as a Pulmonary Hypertension Care Center by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, for the hospital’s special expertise in evaluating and treating patients with hypertension.
Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation at Northside Atlanta, Northside Cherokee and Northside Forsyth and Pulmonary Rehab at Northside Gwinnett have achieved American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation program certification.
Each of Northside’s Laboratories is accredited by the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation of the College of American Pathologists.
Northside Cherokee and Northside Duluth are among seven Georgia hospitals, 350 nationwide, named by Becker’s as the cleanest hospitals. The hospitals received 5-star cleanliness ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) national patient survey.
The Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at Northside Hospital has achieved national Center of Excellence awards from the major insurance managed-care companies as well as national accreditations including ones from:
All Northside hospitals have received accreditation from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission for providing quality patient care in multiple modalities, including Echocardiography, Vascular Testing, Vein Treatment and Nuclear Cardiology.
Northside Hospital Cancer Institute's thoracic oncology program earned a distinguished three-star rating from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) in the category of absence of morbidity for pulmonary resections. The rating, which denotes the highest category of quality, places Northside among the top 10% for general thoracic surgery in the U.S. and Canada.