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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 MVHI’s commitment and success in performance achievement.
“GWTG is about improving quality care and saving lives, so the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association wanted to recognize MVHI’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 MVHI has implemented and maintained the appropriate standards of performance in cardiac care for patients,” said Gregg C. Fonarow, M.D., American Heart Association volunteer chairman for the national GWTG Steering Committee. “We are proud of MVHI’s efforts for implementing these lifesaving treatments.”
“At MVHI we are dedicated to making our patient care experience for heart patients among the best in the country. 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 MVHI Board President, Keith A. Fenstemacher. Fred Talarico, M.D., FACC, MVHI Cardiologist, said, “The GWTG program is the premier hospital-based quality improvement program for the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.”
For more information, visit americanheart.org/getwiththeguidelines.
MVHI Recognized For Implementing Quality Cardiac Care
The Mohawk Valley Heart Institute (MVHI), an award-winning collaborative program of Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare and St. Elizabeth Medical Center, provides cardiac services to the community at their locations. MVHI is one of 277 hospitals and programs 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 patient care. This year, the hospitals are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of MVHI.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 MVHI’s commitment and success in performance achievement.
“GWTG is about improving quality care and saving lives, so the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association wanted to recognize MVHI’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 MVHI has implemented and maintained the appropriate standards of performance in cardiac care for patients,” said Gregg C. Fonarow, M.D., American Heart Association volunteer chairman for the national GWTG Steering Committee. “We are proud of MVHI’s efforts for implementing these lifesaving treatments.”
“At MVHI we are dedicated to making our patient care experience for heart patients among the best in the country. 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 MVHI Board President, Keith A. Fenstemacher. Fred Talarico, M.D., FACC, MVHI Cardiologist, said, “The GWTG program is the premier hospital-based quality improvement program for the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.”
For more information, visit americanheart.org/getwiththeguidelines.