Healthcare Facility Awards

2025 BCEN National Certification Champion Award Winners

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Meet the 2025 recipients of the BCEN National Certification Champion Award

BCEN’s annual National Certification Champion (NCC) Award recognizes healthcare institutions that support RNs earning specialty board certification — the pinnacle of professional achievement for nurses — and, in doing so, advance nursing excellence and elevate patient care in emergency, trauma, critical care transport, and burn care settings.

 

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BCEN’s 2025 National Certification Champions exemplify what top-performing hospitals and health systems understand at their core.

That supporting nursing professional development is a strategic investment — and that specialty certification is a powerful driver of nurse engagement, clinical excellence, and improved patient trust, experience, and outcomes in emergency care

– BCEN CEO Janie Schumaker, MBA, BSN, RN, CEN, ICE-CCP, CENP, CPHQ, FABC

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2025 National Certification Champion – Small Healthcare Facility:

UCHealth Emergency Room – Harmony Campus

Fort Collins, Colorado

Read our Meet the Winner Q&A with UCHealth – Harmony

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2025 National Certification Champion – Large Healthcare Facility

Hackensack University Medical Center – Adult and Pediatric Emergency Department

Hackensack, New Jersey

Read our Meet the Winner Q&A with Hackensack

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2025 National Certification Champion – Health System

The University of Tennessee Medical Center Emergency & Trauma

Knoxville, Tennessee

Read our Meet the Winner Q&A with UTMC

For more information about BCEN’s Distinguished Awards for nurses and National Certification Champion Award for organizations, please visit the BCEN Awards page.