CMC Receives American College of Cardiology Foundations AWARD
SCRANTON, PA, November, 2010 – Community Medical Center has received the American College of Cardiology Foundation’s NCDR ACTION Registry–GWTG Gold Performance Achievement Award for 2010 – one of only 135 hospitals nationwide to do so. The award recognizes Community Medical Center’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients, and signifies that Community Medical Center has 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.
To receive this Gold Performance Achievement Award, Community Medical Center, consistently followed the treatment guidelines in ACTION Registry–GWTG for 24 consecutive months. These include aggressive use of medications like cholesterol-lowering drugs, beta-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, aspirin, and anticoagulants in the hospital.
“The American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association commend Community Medical Center for its success in implementing standards of care and protocols. The full implementation of acute and secondary prevention guideline-recommended therapy is a critical step in saving the lives and improving outcomes of heart attack patients,” Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, ACTION Registry- GWTG Steering Committee Chairperson and Director of Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center.
“The time is right for Community Medical Center to be focused on improving the quality of cardiovascular care by implementing ACTION Registry–GWTG. The number of acute myocardial infarction patients eligible for treatment is expected to grow over the next decade due to increasing incidence of heart disease and a large aging population,” said Stephen J. Voyce, MD, Cardiologist and Get With the Guidelines Physicians Champion for CMC.
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, for tracking coronary artery disease. ACTION Registry–GWTG combines the best of both programs into a single, unified national registry. The new registry joins the robust data collection and quality reporting features of the ACTION Registry with the collaborative models, unique tools, and quality improvement techniques of the Get With The Guidelines-CAD program. With the collective strengths of these two programs, ACTION Registry–GWTG empowers health care provider teams to consistently treat heart attack patient according to the most current, science-based guidelines; and establishes a national standard for understanding and improving the quality, safety, and outcomes of care provided for patients with coronary artery disease, specifically high-risk myocardial infarction/heart attack patients.
CMC’s Diabetes Education Program Merits ADA Recognition
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jane Gaul
Phone: 570-969-7002
j.gaul@cmchealthsys.org
SCRANTON, PA, March, 2010 – The Center for Diabetes Management at Community Medical Center has been awarded continued Recognition from the American Diabetes Association. This program was originally recognized in April of 2007. The program offers high-quality education services to the patients it serves.
The ADA Education Recognition effort, begun in the fall of 1986, is a voluntary process which assures that approved education programs have met the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education Programs. Programs that achieve Recognition status have a staff of knowledgeable health professionals who can provide state-of-the-art information about diabetes management for participants.
Self-management education is an essential component of diabetes treatment. One consequence of compliance with the National Standards is the greater consistency in the quality and quantity of education offered to people with diabetes. The participant in an ADA Recognized program will be taught, as needed, self-care skills that will promote better management of his or her diabetes treatment regimen. All approved education programs cover the following topics as needed: diabetes disease process; nutritional management; physical activity; medications; monitoring, preventing, detecting, and treating acute complications; preventing, detecting, and treating chronic complications through risk reduction; goal setting and problem solving; psychological adjustment; and preconception care, management during pregnancy, and gestational management.
Assuring high-quality education for patient self-care is one of the primanry goals of the Education Recognition program. Through the support of the health care team and increased knowledge and awareness of diabetes, the patient can assume a major part of the responsibility of his/her diabetes management. Unnecessary hospital admissions and some of the acute and chronic complications of diabetes may be prevented through self-management education.
“The process gives professionals a national standard by which to measure the quality of the services they provide”, commented Barbara Bossi, RN, Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services, Community Medical Center Healthcare System. “And, of course, it helps consumers to identify these quality programs.”
For more information on Recognized education programs in your area or other American Diabetes Association programs, call your local ADA office or contact other ADA online at www.diabetes.org.
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