Mohawk Valley Heart Institute Recognized For Implementing Quality Heart Disease Care - Fourth Consecutive Year
The Mohawk Valley Heart Institute (MVHI), a cooperative program of St. Elizabeth Medical Center and Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare, has been recognized for achievement in using evidence-based guidelines to provide the best possible care to patients through the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines Program. MVHI has been awarded the Gold Performance Achievement Award for Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD). This is the fourth consecutive year that MVHI has received recognition for its achievement in cardiac care from the American Heart Association's GWTG-CAD initiative.
Get With The Guidelines is a hospital-based quality-improvement program designed to ensure that hospitals consistently care for cardiac patients following the most up-to-date guidelines and recommendations. Those hospitals marking 85 percent compliance for 24 consecutive months are given the Gold Performance Achievement Award.
"The American Heart Association is pleased to recognize its top Get With The Guidelines participants," said Lee Schwamm, M.D., national chairman, of the Get With The Guidelines steering committee, associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and Vice Chairman of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. "Healthcare providers who use Get With The Guidelines are armed with the latest evidence-based guidelines and immediate access to clinical decision support. The goal of this initiative is to ultimately improve the quality of life and help reduce deaths among heart patients."
"The medical staff and employees of MVHI are dedicated to making our cardiac unit among the best in the country, and the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines program is helping us accomplish that by making it easier for our professionals to improve the long-term outcomes of our cardiac patients," said Halsey Bagg and Cheryl Perry, Co-Coordinators of MVHI. "The MVHI staff of highly skilled professionals is pleased to be recognized for its dedication and achievements in cardiac care."