Awards and recognitions

FORTUNE

• FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies for past 4 years (2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009)
• Ranks DaVita #1 Health Care Medical Facility in Innovation, Investment and Quality
• Ranks DaVita #2 in entire Health Care Medical Facilities category
• Only kidney care company

Training Magazine

• Training Magazine's “Top 125” ranked #1 national health care service provider for its employee training programs 
• Honored for the fifth straight year (2005-2009) as one of the “Top 125” ranked companies of employer-sponsored workforce training and development

Modern Healthcare

• Honored in 2008 as one of the 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare (#66, only nationwide health care services company on list)
• 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare (KT #23)

WORLDBLU

• Most Democratic Workplaces for 2008 and 2009
• 1st Healthcare Company
• 1st FORTUNE 500 Company

ERE.net (Electronic Recruiting Exchange)

• DaVita won top award in Recruiting Department / Function of the Year 2009

Hermes Creative Awards

• 2009 - DaVita honored with eight awards, including 3 platinum awards from Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP) for:
• DaVita Magazine
• DaVita: A story about a kidney care company that cares
• Falcon™: Innovative Kidney Solutions. Delivered
• 2008 - DaVita Magazine Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP)

Institutional Investor

• 2008 - List of Best CEO’s, KT #2 Health Care Facilities

University Kidney Disease Research Associates

• 2008 - Outstanding Achievement in Business & Industry

Health Awards

• 2008 - Best Patient Information and Education Internet Site

eHealthcare Leadership Award

• 2008 - Best Overall Consumer Disease-Focused Internet Site

DaVita Magazine: Stories of the DaVita Village won two Gold MarCom Awards in two categories:

• Magazine / Internal
• Employee Publication/Internal Magazine

DaVita Village Voice received honorable mention

• Employee Publication / Annual Meeting category for the Nationwide daily publications