Canonsburg hospital has lot of heart
Canonsburg General Hospital has received the Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognition signifies that Canonsburg Hospital has reached an exceptional goal of treating heart failure patients according to the guidelines of care recommended by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology.
This marks the third year in a row that Canonsburg Hospital has been recognized with a quality achievement award.
Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure helps Canonsburg Hospital’s staff develop and implement acute and secondary prevention guideline processes to improve patient care and outcomes. The program provides hospitals with a web-based patient management tool, best practice discharge protocols and standing orders, along with a robust registry and real-time benchmarking capabilities to track performance.
The quick and efficient use of guideline procedures can improve the quality of care for heart failure patients, save lives and ultimately, reduce health care costs by lowering the recurrence of heart attacks.
In addition to the Get With The Guideline-Heart Failure award Canonsburg Hospital has also been recognized as a recipient of the association’s Target: Heart Failure Honor Roll, for improving patient care. Target: Heart Failure is an initiative that provides health care professionals with resources and materials designed to help them advance heart failure awareness, prevention, treatment and recovery. Hospitals are required to meet criteria that optimize and improve medication adherence, provides early follow-up care and coordination and enhances patient education. The goal is to reduce hospital readmissions and help patients improve their quality of life in managing this chronic condition
“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,” said Dr. Lee H. Schwamm, 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, Mass.