Ministry Health Care’s Saint Clare’s Hospital in Weston has been recognized by the ACTION Registry – GWTG with a Silver Achievement Award for the Treatment of heart attack patients.
Created by the merger of the American College of Cardiology Foundation’s NCDR ACTION Registry® and the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-CAD program, ACTION Registry–GWTG combines the best of both programs into a single, unified national registry.
“We have gone to great lengths to establish a program that meets these criteria and this is another source of great pride for the Marshfield Clinic and Ministry Health Care Heart Care Team,” said Mary Krueger, president Saint Clare’s Hospital. “We could not have received this designation with the support of our referring hospitals, EMS partners and dedicated staff in many departments.”
As a Silver Achievement Award recipient, the award recognizes Saint Clare’s as one of 36 hospitals nationwide who over a one-year period have reached an aggressive goal of treating coronary artery disease patients with 85 percent compliance to core standard levels of care outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.
Those standards include aggressive use of medications like cholesterol-lowering drugs, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, aspirin, and anticoagulants in the hospital.
“The American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association commend Saint Clare’s Hospital for its success in implementing standards of care and protocols,” said Christopher Cannon, MD, ACTION Registry–GWTG Steering Committee Chairperson and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician in the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.