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Doctors Hospital of Dallas is one of 173 hospitals in the United States being recognized in the July 17 issue of US News & World Report by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With the Guidelines SM (GWTG) program in an ad for its performance achievement in cardiac patient care.
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s GWTG program is a quality-improvement program designed to help hospitals ensure that patients consistently receive cardiac and stroke care in accordance with the most up-to-date guidelines and recommendations.
GWTG has three modules to help hospitals use evidence-based guidelines to treat patients with coronary artery disease, stroke and/or heart failure. Hospitals that continually meet or exceed the nationally accepted standards, or guidelines, improve their quality patient care by turning guidelines into lifelines.
Upon meeting criteria specific to each module, hospitals are recognized for performance achievement if at least 85 percent of their cardiac or stroke patients (without contraindications) are treated and discharged according to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s guidelines and recommendations. The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s ad recognizes Doctors Hospital of Dallas’commitment and success in performance achievement in cardiac care.
“GWTG is about saving lives, so the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association wanted to recognize Doctors Hospital of Dallas’ contribution to quality care in a publication such as US News & World Report, which focuses its July issue on the top 100 hospitals. Doctors Hospital has implemented and maintained the appropriate standards of protocol in cardiac care for patients,” said Gregg C. Fonarow, M.D., American Heart Association volunteer chairman for the national GWTG Steering Committee. “We are proud of Doctors Hospital’s efforts for implementing these lifesaving treatments.”
“Doctors Hospital of Dallas is dedicated to making our patient care for heart patients among the best in the country, and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s GWTG program is helping us accomplish that by making it easier for our professionals to improve the quality of care and long-term outcomes of our cardiac patients,” said Mitch Edgeworth, Doctors Hospital CEO.
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ABOUT DOCTORS HOSPITAL OF DALLAS
Doctors Hospital of Dallas, part of Tenet Texas, is a 232-bed acute care facility located at 9440 Poppy Drive in Dallas. Doctors Hospital has been serving the Dallas community for nearly 45 years. The hospital provides a broad spectrum of medical and health care services and specialties, including an 18-bed emergency department, heart center, sleep center, maternity center, diabetes center, orthopedic center, and transfusion-free medicine and surgery center. The hospital also offers a wide range of diagnostic and surgical services. Doctors Hospital of Dallas has been recognized as a Distinguished Hospital for Patient Safety by HealthGrades, a leading national health care quality group and as a 2005 CIGNA Center of Excellence for Cardiac Catheterization. The hospital is accredited by the Society of Chest Pain Centers and by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency. To learn more about Doctors Hospital of Dallas, visit www.doctorshospitaldallas.com.
ABOUT GWTG:
Get With The GuidelinesSM (GWTG) is the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association’s hospital-based program designed to ensure that patients are consistently treated and discharged according to evidence-based guidelines for coronary artery disease, heart failure, and stroke. This quality improvement program empowers healthcare teams to save lives and reduce healthcare costs through helping hospitals follow evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for treating coronary artery disease, heart failure, and stroke. Experience has shown that 80,000 lives could be saved annually if the coronary artery disease (GWTG-CAD) module alone of Get With The GuidelinesSM were implemented nationwide. GWTG was the first hospital-based program to receive the prestigious Innovation in Prevention Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2004. Currently more than 1200 hospitals use one or more GWTG modules. GWTG-CAD is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from the Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceutical Partnership and GWTG- Heart Failure is supported by an unrestricted grant from Glaxo Smith Kline, Inc.
For more information, visit americanheart.org/getwiththeguidelines.
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