Awards, Accolades and Accreditations

For the second consecutive year, Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital has been honored with the American College of Cardiology's 2025 NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award, placing it among the nation's top-performing hospitals for heart attack care.

Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital has been honored with the American College of Cardiology's 2024 NCDR Chest Pain - MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award, placing it among the nation's top-performing hospitals for heart attack care.

Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Gold Plus Award, recognizing our unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality, research-based stroke care.

Memorial Hermann Health System is proud to have nine facilities recognized with one of the highest national honors for nursing excellence a hospital can receive – Magnet® recognition is a reflection of nursing professionalism, teamwork and superiority in patient care: Memorial Hermann Cypress Hospital, Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital, Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital, Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center, Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital, Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital, Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center and Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center

In 2018, Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital received designation as a Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP) Center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Memorial Hermann Sugar Land affiliated surgeons perform more than 400 laparoscopic bariatric procedures each year, including gastric banding (lap band), gastric sleeve, gastric bypass and duodenal switch, and even the most difficult bariatric surgery revisions and reversals. ACS designates MBSAQIP Centers as metabolic and bariatric surgery programs with a demonstrated track record of favorable outcomes for weight loss surgery.

Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Heart-Check mark for Advanced Certification for Primary Stroke Centers in 2018. The hospital earned this distinction after the Joint Commission conducted an on-site review. Joint Commission experts evaluated compliance with stroke-related standards and requirements, including program management, the delivery of clinical care and performance improvement.

The Quality Texas Foundation has awarded three hospitals the Texas Award for Performance Excellence (TAPE) in recognition of their strong commitment to quality and high performance. Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital received the distinction in 2015, Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital was recognized in 2017 and Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center earned the award in 2018. The Quality Texas Foundation was chartered to recognize the best organizations in Texas. The group uses an extensive evaluation process that includes hundreds of hours of onsite visits to evaluate and score applicants in several criteria.

The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) has recognized Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital, Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital, Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital, and Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center as four of 66 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals that have achieved meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care. As a participant in ACS NSQIP, the hospitals are required to track the outcomes of inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures and collect data that directs patient safety and the quality of surgical care improvements.

Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital has been named a recipient of the 2016 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest Presidential honor for performance excellence. U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker made the announcement today recognizing Memorial Hermann Sugar Land for its outstanding commitment to sustainable excellence through innovation, improvement and visionary leadership. Since the health care category was introduced in 1999, only 21 health care organizations nationwide have been awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Memorial Hermann Sugar Land becomes the first Houston area hospital and the third in Texas to win the prestigious award. Nationally, more than 1,600 applications have been submitted since the program was established in 1987. To date, just 113 awards have been given in six sectors, education, health care, manufacturing, non-profit, service and small business.