In June 2008, St. John's Regional Medical Center with FleishmanHillard won a Silver Anvil Award, sponsored by the Public Relations Society of America, which recognizes outstanding achievement in strategic public relations planning and implementation. The award was presented to St. John's Public Relations and Communications Department as a result of its extensive community outreach effort to inform employees, physicians, patients and their families, neighbors, and the media of plans for the temporary suspension of hospital operations to successfully treat mold at St. John's Regional Medical Center in August 2007.