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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/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 saving lives, so the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association wanted to recognize MVHI’s contribution to quality care in a publication such as US News & World Report, which focuses its July issue on America’s Best Hospitals. MVHI has implemented and maintained the appropriate standards of protocol 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 MVHI’s efforts for implementing these lifesaving treatments.”
“MVHI 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 MVHI Board President, Keith Fenstemacher.
Fred Talarico, M.D., MVHI Cardiologist, adds, “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.
Mohawk Valley Heart Institute Recognized for Performance Achievement
Utica -- The Mohawk Valley Heart Institute (MVHI) is one of 173 hospitals in the United States being recognized in the July 17 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 Coronary Artery Disease patient care. Mohawk Valley Heart Institute is a cooperative cardiac surgery program of St. Elizabeth Medical Center and Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare.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/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 saving lives, so the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association wanted to recognize MVHI’s contribution to quality care in a publication such as US News & World Report, which focuses its July issue on America’s Best Hospitals. MVHI has implemented and maintained the appropriate standards of protocol 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 MVHI’s efforts for implementing these lifesaving treatments.”
“MVHI 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 MVHI Board President, Keith Fenstemacher.
Fred Talarico, M.D., MVHI Cardiologist, adds, “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.