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CHI St. Joseph Health
Four Get With The Guidelines
Awards
CHI St. Joseph Health Regional Hospital
recently received four accolades from the
American Heart Association/American
Stroke Association. Regional Hospital was
awarded the Get With The Guidelines®-
Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement
Award with Honor Roll Elite Plus, the Get
With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold
Plus Quality Achievement Award, the
Mission: Lifeline NSTEMI Silver Achievement
Award and the Mission: Lifeline STEMI
Receiving Center – Silver Plus Award. This
marks the fifth consecutive year CHI St.
Joseph Health has been recognized by the
AHA/ASA for excellence in Cardiovascular
and Stroke Care.
“The American Heart Association/
American Stroke Association Guidelines are
benchmarks for excellence in the quality of
the cardiac and stroke care we deliver,” said
CHI St. Joseph Health President & CEO
Theron Park. “These accomplishments
are significant, because they back up
our commitment to patients to adhere to
evidence-based, proven standards.”
Get With The Guidelines®-
Stroke Gold Plus Quality
Achievement Award with Honor
Roll Elite Plus
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meeting quality measures developed to
reduce the time between the patient’s
arrival at the hospital and treatment
with the clot-buster tissue plasminogen
activator, or tPA, the only drug approved
by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
to treat ischemic stroke.
Get With The Guidelines®-
Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality
Achievement Award
CHI St. Joseph Health earned the award
by meeting specific quality achievement
measures for the diagnosis and treatment
of heart failure patients at a set level for
a designated period. These measures
include evaluation of the proper use of
medications and aggressive risk-reduction
therapies. Before discharge, patients
should also receive education on managing
their heart failure and overall health, get a
follow-up visit scheduled, as well as other
care transition interventions.
Mission: Lifeline NSTEMI Silver
Achievement Award
The health system received NSTEMI
recognition for meeting specific criteria and
standards of performance for the quick
and appropriate treatment of NSTEMI heart
attack patients by providing emergency
procedures to re-establish blood flow to
blocked arteries when needed.
Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving
CHI St. Joseph Health earned this
recognition by meeting specific
quality achievement measures
for diagnosing and treating
stroke patients at a set level for a
designated period. These measures
include evaluation of the proper use
of medications and other stroke
treatments aligned with the most up-
to-date, evidence-based guidelines
with the goal of speeding recovery
and reducing death and disability for
stroke patients. Before discharge,
patients should also receive
education on managing their health,
get a follow-up visit scheduled,
as well as other care transition
interventions.
CHI St. Joseph Health qualified for
the Honor Roll Elite Plus award by
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Center — Silver Plus Award
CHI St. Joseph Health received the STEMI
recognition for implementing specific
quality improvement measures outlined
by the American Heart Association for the
treatment of patients who suffer severe
heart attacks. This means the organization
meets specific standards of performance
for quick and appropriate treatment through
emergency procedures to re-establish
blood flow to blocked arteries in heart
attack patients coming into the hospital
directly or by transfer from another facility.
Get With The Guidelines is the American
Heart Association/American Stroke
Association’s hospital-based quality
improvement program that provides
hospitals with tools and resources to
increase adherence to the latest research-
based guidelines. This program is used
widely by more than 1,500 hospitals across
the country.
About Get With The Guidelines: Get
With The Guidelines is the American Heart
Association/American Stroke Association’s
hospital-based quality improvement
program that provides hospitals with
the latest research-based guidelines.
Developed with the goal of saving lives
and hastening recovery, Get With The
Guidelines has touched the lives of more
than 5 million patients since 2001. For
more information, visit heart.org .