Forty-Nine Tenet Hospitals Recognized for Implementing Quality Cardiac Care Measures
November 15 2011 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) today announced that
all of its 49 eligible hospitals have earned recognition from The
American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines program for
heart failure.
“We are very proud that all of our eligible hospitals earned
recognition from The American Heart Association,” said Kelvin A.
Baggett, M.D., Tenet’s chief medical officer. “Our physicians and
staff have worked hard to ensure that we are using current
evidence-based guidelines and recommendations that are designed to
provide quality care for our patients. Get With The Guidelines
gives our professionals the tools and reports they need to
effectively treat heart failure patients.”
Get With The Guidelines is a hospital-based quality improvement
program designed to ensure that hospitals consistently care for
cardiac and stroke patients using the most up-to-date guidelines
and recommendations. Hospitals can be recognized at one of these
levels:
- The Gold Plus or Silver
Plus Performance Awards honor current gold or silver
performance award hospitals that have demonstrated an additional 75
percent compliance with heart failure specific quality measures for
at least 12 months.
- Gold hospitals followed
treatment guidelines at least 85 percent of the time and have
maintained this performance level for consecutive 12-month
intervals.
- Silver Performance Award
hospitals have maintained this performance level for at least 12
months.
The following hospitals earned Gold-Plus Performance
Awards:
- Brookwood Medical Center, Birmingham,
Ala.
- Centennial Medical Center, Frisco,
Texas
- Central Carolina Hospital, Sanford,
N.C.
- Coastal Carolina Hospital, Hardeeville,
S.C.
- Coral Gables Hospital, Coral Gables,
Fla.
- Creighton University Medical Center,
Omaha, Neb.
- Delray Medical Center, Delray Beach,
Fla.
- Des Peres Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.
- Doctors Hospital of Manteca, Manteca,
Calif.
- Doctors Medical Center, Modesto,
Calif.
- Good Samaritan Medical Center, West
Palm Beach, Fla.
- Hahnemann University Hospital,
Philadelphia, Pa.
- Hialeah Hospital, Hialeah, Fla.
- Houston Northwest Medical Center,
Houston, Texas
- Lake Pointe Medical Center, Rowlett,
Texas
- Lakewood Regional Medical Center,
Lakewood, Calif.
- Los Alamitos Medical Center, Los
Alamitos, Calif.
- North Fulton Hospital, Roswell,
Ga.
- North Shore Medical Center – FMC
Campus, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
- Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, Palm
Beach Gardens, Fla.
- Palmetto General Hospital, Hialeah,
Fla.
- Piedmont Medical Center, Rock Hill,
S.C.
- Placentia-Linda Hospital, Placentia,
Calif.
- Providence Memorial Hospital, El Paso,
Texas
- Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett,
Bartlett, Tenn.
- Saint Louis University Hospital, St.
Louis, Mo.
- Sierra Providence East Medical Center,
El Paso, Texas
- Twin Cities Community Hospital,
Templeton, Calif.
- West Boca Medical Center, Boca Raton,
Fla.
The following Tenet hospitals earned Gold Performance
Awards:
- Atlanta Medical Center, Atlanta,
Ga.
- Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center,
Houston, Texas
- Desert Regional Medical Center, Palm
Springs, Calif.
- Doctors Hospital at White Rock Lake,
Dallas, Texas
- East Cooper Medical Center, Mount
Pleasant, S.C.
- Fountain Valley Regional Hospital,
Fountain Valley, Calif.
- Frye Regional Medical Center, Hickory,
N.C.
- Hilton Head Hospital, Hilton Head
Island, S.C.
- JFK Memorial Hospital, Indio,
Calif.
- Nacogdoches Medical Center,
Nacogdoches, Texas
- Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis,
Memphis, Tenn.
- San Ramon Regional Medical Center, San
Ramon, Calif.
- Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center,
San Luis Obispo, Calif.
- South Fulton Medical Center, East
Point, Ga.
- Spalding Regional Medical Center,
Griffin, Ga.
- St. Mary’s Medical Center, West Palm
Beach, Fla.
The following Tenet hospitals earned Silver Plus Performance
Awards:
- North Shore Medical Center, Miami,
Fla.
- Sierra Medical Center, El Paso,
Texas
The following hospitals earned Silver Performance
Awards:
- Park Plaza Hospital, Houston,
Texas
- Sylvan Grove Hospital, Jackson,
Ga.
Lee H. Schwamm, M.D., chair of the Get With The Guidelines
national steering committee and director of the TeleStroke and
Acute Stroke Services at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,
said, “On behalf of the American Heart Association’s Get With The
Guidelines team, I want to congratulate Tenet for having its 49
hospitals earn recognition for their outstanding performance in the
treatment of heart failure. This is truly an outstanding
accomplishment.”
“The goal of the American Heart Association’s Get With The
Guidelines program is to help healthcare providers implement
appropriate evidence-based care and protocols that will reduce
disability and death and improve the quality of life for patients,”
Schwamm said. “Published scientific studies are providing us with
more and more evidence that Get With The Guidelines works. Patients
are getting the right care they need when they need it. That’s
resulting in improved survival.”
Tenet and its hospitals will be recognized during the American
Heart Association’s November Scientific Sessions.
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whose subsidiaries and affiliates own and operate acute care
hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and diagnostic imaging
centers. Tenet’s hospitals and related healthcare facilities are
committed to providing high quality care to patients in the
communities they serve. For more information, please visit
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