St. E’s Earns ‘Get with the Guidelines’ Gold Award
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- St. Elizabeth Health Center has received the Get With the Guidelines – Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association.
The award recognizes the hospital for achieving an exceptional goal of treating patients who suffer heart failure based on the guidelines of care recommended by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology.
The recognition marks the second consecutive year that St. Elizabeth Health Center has been so recognized, says Mariann Pacak, director of heart and vascular services.
The program, she said, helps the staff of St. Elizabeth to develop and execute acute and secondary prevention guidelines that improve patient care and outcomes and provides hospitals with a Web-based patient management tool, best practice discharge protocols and standing orders and a robust registry and real-time benchmarking capabilities to track performance. Quick and efficient use of guideline procedures can improve the quality of care for patients who suffer heart failure, save lives and ultimately, reduce healthcare costs by lowering the recurrence of heart attacks. “This recognition demonstrates that we are on the right track and we’re very proud of our team,” Pacak said.
“Recent studies show that patients treated in hospitals participating in the American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines – Heart Failure program receive a higher quality of care and may experience better outcomes,” noted Lee H. Schwamm, M.D., chairman of the Get With the Guidelines national steering committee and director of the TeleStroke and Acute Stroke Services at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. “St. Elizabeth Health Center’s team is to be commended for its commitment to improving the care of patients.”
Humility of Mary Health Partners is a region of Catholic Health Partners in Cincinnati, the largest health system in Ohio and one of the largest Catholic health systems in the United States. HMHP members are St. Elizabeth Health Center, St. Joseph Health Center, St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center, HM Home Health Services, The Assumption Village, Humility House, Hospice of the Valley and Laurel Lake.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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