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| El Paso's Sierra Medical Center and Providence Memorial Hospital Recognized for Implementing Quality Care |
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Sierra Medical Center and Providence Memorial Hospital are two 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 GuidelinesSM (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 Sierra Medical Center and Providence Memorial Hospital’s commitment and success in performance achievement for cardiac care.
“GWTG is about saving lives, so the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association wanted to recognize Sierra Providence Health Network’s contribution to quality care in a publication such as US News & World Report, which focuses its July issue on the top 100 hospitals. These two hospitals have 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 Sierra Medical Center and Providence Memorial Hospital’s efforts for implementing these lifesaving treatments.”
"Sierra Providence Health Network 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 John Harris, Sierra Providence Health Network CEO.
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ABOUT SIERRA PROVIDENCE HEALTH NETWORK
Sierra Providence Health Network, part of Tenet Texas, consists of three hospitals located in El Paso: 351-bed Sierra Medical Center, located at 1625 Medical Center Drive; 508-bed Providence Memorial Hospital, which also houses the 106-bed Children’s Hospital at Providence, located at 2001 N. Oregon; and a 72-bed physical rehabilitation hospital, Sierra Providence Physical Rehabilitation Hospital, located at 1740 Curie. The network is in the process of building a fourth hospital, Sierra Providence Eastside Hospital, a 100-bed acute care facility scheduled to open in 2008.
Sierra Medical Center, Providence Memorial Hospital and the Children’s Hospital at Providence are acute care hospitals that offer a broad spectrum of medical and surgical services for adults and children, including cardiac care and rehabilitation, cancer care and support services, women’s services and emergency care. Other network clinical specialties include a dedicated children’s emergency room, kidney transplant, gamma knife radiosurgery, a hospice, a bariatrics center and health care services for chronically ill children. Sierra Providence Physical Rehabilitation Hospital provides a broad spectrum of rehabilitation services and is equipped to handle brain injuries and other serious disorders and is accredited by both the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities and the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Sierra Medical Center and Providence Memorial Hospital are accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency. To learn more about Sierra Providence Health Network, visit www.sphn.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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