COOKEVILLE-Cookeville Regional Medical Center has earned the 2014 Gold Performance Achievement Award from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry for demonstrating sustained achievement of performance measures in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) patients through implementing the ACTION Registry- GWTG and application of American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Clinical Guideline Recommendations.
The medical center is taking part in the American College of Cardiology’s nationwide quality improvement program designed to help hospitals provide high quality patient care and improved outcomes for their heart patients.
“Earning this award (Gold Achievement Award) shows that we are committed to patient cardiac care here at Cookeville Regional. It is one more way that we can reassure our patients they are in good hands and they can trust us with their heart care,” said Thomas Little, M.D., F.A.C.C., Interventional Cardiologist at Cookeville Regional.
Brenda Davis- Bryant, R.N. and Chest Pain Accreditation Coordinator at Cookeville Regional, shares how these tools will help the cardiac care at Cookeville Regional. “The tools available through the registry allows CRMC to evaluate specific data and form a strategic plan for quality improvement,” said Davis. “The evaluated data provides information and insight that are useful to help meet our goals of providing the best cardiac care to our patients at CRMC.”
The ACC’s new Quality Improvement for Institutions program gives CRMC personnel access to an array of tools and programs that help physicians, nurses and other members of the cardiac care team make decisions with their patients that are based on best practices and the latest scientific research.
Cookeville Regional Medical Center has participated for the past five years in the ACC’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry(NCDR®), which gathers data and provides actionable performance feedback to physicians and hospitals. However, quality measures have been tracked and compared to national benchmarks since the inception of the program which began in 1994. The new program takes this commitment to quality to the next level by ensuring the CRMC’s cardiac care team has access to additional quality improvement initiatives and tools.
“Cookeville Regional continues to demonstrate its commitment to patients by ensuring the entire cardiac care team is well informed and has access to the best information and decision-support tools available,” said ACC President John G. Harold, MD, MACC. “The ACC is committed to quality patient care and establishing guidelines based on the best and latest scientific research, but it’s up to the care team in the hospital to use these tools to apply the guidelines to be successful.”