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Community Medical Center recognized
for implementing quality cardiac and stroke care
Community Medical Center is one of 277 hospitals in the United States being recognized in the July 23 issue of US News & World Report by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With the Guidelines (GWTG) program in an ad for its performance achievement in cardiac and stroke patient care.
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's GWTG program is a
quality-improvement program that helps hospitals insure that patients consistently
receive cardiac and stroke care in accordance with the most up-to-date guidelines and
recommendations.
GWTG has three modules to help hospitals use evidence-based guidelines to treat
patients with coronary artery disease, stroke and/or heart failure. Hospitals that continually
meet or exceed the nationally accepted standards, or guidelines, improve their quality
patient care by turning guidelines into lifelines.
Upon meeting criteria specific to each module, hospitals are recognized for performance
achievement if at least 85 percent of their cardiac or stroke patients (without contraindications)
are treated and discharged according to the American Heart
Association/American Stroke Association's guidelines and recommendations. The
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's ad recognizes Community
Medical Center's commitment and success in performance achievement.
"GWTG is about improving quality of care and saving lives, so the American Heart
Association/American Stroke Association wanted to recognize CMC's contribution to
quality cardiovascular care in a publication such as US News & World Report, which
focuses its July issue on the top 100 hospitals. The Community Medical Center has
implemented and maintained the appropriate standards of performance in cardiac and
stroke care for patients," said Gregg C. Fonarow, M.D., American Heart Association volunteer
chairman for the national GWTG Steering Committee. "We are proud of CMC's
efforts for implementing these lifesaving treatments."
"Community Medical Center is dedicated to making our patient care for heart and stroke
patients among the best in the country, and the American Heart Association/American
Stroke Association's GWTG program is helping us accomplish that by making it easier
for our professionals to improve the quality of care and long-term outcomes of our cardiac
patients," said John Nilsson, Interim President & CEO.
About GWTG:
Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) is the American Heart Association/ American
Stroke Association's hospital-based program designed to ensure that patients are consistently
treated and discharged according to evidence-based guidelines for coronary artery
disease, heart failure, and stroke. This quality improvement program empowers healthcare
teams to save lives and reduce healthcare costs through helping hospitals follow
evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for treating coronary artery disease,
heart failure, and stroke. Experience has shown that 80,000 lives could be saved annually
if the coronary artery disease (GWTG-CAD) module alone of Get With The
GuidelinesSM were implemented nationwide. GWTG was the first hospital-based program
to receive the prestigious Innovation in Prevention Award from the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services in 2004. Currently almost 2,000 hospitals use
one or more GWTG modules. GWTG-CAD is supported by an unrestricted educational
grant from the Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceutical Partnership and GWTG- Heart
Failure is supported by an unrestricted grant from Glaxo Smith Kline, Inc.
For more information, visit www.americanheart.org/getwiththeguidelines
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