 The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit received the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence for Spring 2009–2010.The award comes from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association awarded Vidant Medical Center with the 2010 Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold-Plus and Silver in the Heart Failure category, recognizing Vidant Medical Center for maintaining high-quality stroke care for at least 24 consecutive months.