Belleville Memorial Hospital issued the following announcement on Aug. 1.
Memorial Hospital Belleville has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Silver Performance Achievement Award for 2019. Memorial Belleville is one of only 86 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor.
The award recognizes Memorial’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that Memorial has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.
“We are extremely honored to among such an elite group of hospitals to receive this award,” said Mark J. Turner, president of Memorial Regional Health Services, Inc. “This award is another testament to the quality of our staff and physicians in providing exceptional healthcare and compassionate service.”
To receive the Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Silver Performance Achievement Award, Memorial has demonstrated sustained achievement in the Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry for four consecutive quarters and has performed at the top level of standards for specific performance measures. Full participation in the registry engages hospitals in a robust quality improvement process using data to drive improvements in adherence to guideline recommendations and overall quality of care provided to heart attack patients.
“As a Silver Performance Award recipient, Memorial has established itself as a leader in setting the national standard for improving quality of care in patients with acute myocardial infarction,” said Michael C. Kontos, MD, FACC, chair of the NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Steering Subcommittee, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. “By meeting the award requirements set forth in the registry, Memorial has demonstrated a commitment to providing reliable, comprehensive treatment for heart attack patients based on current clinical guideline recommendations.”
Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry empowers health care provider teams to consistently treat heart attack patients according to the most current, science-based guidelines and establishes a national standard for understanding and improving the quality, safety and outcomes of care provided for patients with coronary artery disease, specifically high-risk heart attack patients.
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Source: Belleville Memorial Hospital
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