Northside Hospital Cancer Institute was honored recently with the Outstanding Achievement Award for achieving excellence in quality cancer care, based on surveys performed in 2013. The award is presented by the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons. Since the award's inception in 2004, Northside has received the Outstanding Achievement Award for every survey performed (2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013); Northside is one of only 10 hospitals in the country to have received the award for each survey.

Northside's Cancer Institute was evaluated on 34 program standards categorized within one of five cancer program activity areas: cancer committee leadership, cancer data management, cancer conferences, clinical services, and quality improvement. Northside was further evaluated on seven commendation standards. To be eligible, all award recipients must have received commendation ratings in all seven commendation standards, in addition to receiving a compliance rating for each of the 34 other standards.