Mon General first hospital in WV to earn American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation Silver Quality Achievement Award
Posted Date: 4/17/2013
Mon General recently became the first hospital in West Virginia to earn the Get With The Guidelines®–Resuscitation Silver Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. Pictured above are members of Mon General's Code Blue Committee (Cardiac Resuscitation), whose efforts helped the hospital meet the Silver Award goals.
Mon General recently became the first hospital in West Virginia to earn the Get With The Guidelines®–Resuscitation Silver Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognition signifies that Mon General has reached an aggressive goal in using guidelines-based care to improve patient outcomes from in-hospital cardiac arrest.
The Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation program aims to help hospital teams save more lives threatened by cardiopulmonary emergencies by consistently following the most up-to-date scientific guidelines for treating patients who suffer a cardiac arrest in the hospital.
More than 18,800 in-hospital cardiac arrests occur each year, according to the American Heart Association.
Get With The Guidelines–Resuscitation helps Mon General’s staff develop and implement protocols that can reduce disability and death from cardiac and respiratory emergencies. It provides an evidence-based, quality improvement program of patient safety, medical emergency team response, effective resuscitation and post-emergency care.
Specifically, Mon General was awarded for meeting identified measures in caring for adult cardiac arrest patients.
Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation builds on the work of the American Heart Association’s National Registry of CardioPulmonary Resuscitation (NRCPR), originally launched in 1999 as a database of in-hospital resuscitation events from more than 500 hospitals. The data from the registry and now the quality program gives participating hospitals feedback on their resuscitation practice and patient outcomes and has been used to develop new evidence-based guidelines for in-hospital resuscitation.
Mon General joins other hospitals across the country in putting that data to work in everyday practice to save lives, ensuring cardiac arrest patients are getting timely CPR, defibrillation or other appropriate treatment within minutes of being found in cardiac arrest.
“Mon General’s commitment to Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation puts our quality improvement interventions and strategies into the workflow of care for their patients who experience cardiac arrest,” said Lee H. Schwamm, M.D., chair of the Get With The Guidelines National Steering Committee and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. “Shortening the time to effective resuscitation and maximizing post-resuscitation care is critical to patient survival.”
“Mon General is dedicated to helping our patients have the best possible outcome and implementing the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines–Resuscitation program will help us accomplish this by making it easier for our teams to put proven knowledge and guidelines to work on a daily basis,” said Brian Hawthorne, MD, Vice President and Medical Director.
About Get With The Guidelines
Get With The Guidelines® is the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s hospital-based quality improvement program that empowers healthcare teams to save lives and reduce healthcare costs by helping hospitals follow evidence-based guidelines and recommendations. For more information, visit heart.org/quality.
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