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Follow on Google News | South Nassau Recognized for Providing Quality Heart Failure CareSouth Nassau Communities Hospital awarded the Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Silver-Plus Quality Achievement Award.
By: South Nassau Communities Hospital South Nassau also was named to the association’ “At South Nassau, the patients and communities we serve come first in all that we do,” said Richard J. Murphy, president and CEO. “Therefore, raising our high standards is ongoing so that we fulfill our mission to provide patient-centered, quality healthcare whenever and wherever it is needed.” Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure is a quality improvement program that helps hospital teams provide the most up-to-date, research-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing hospital readmissions for heart failure patients. Launched in 2005, numerous published studies have demonstrated the program’s success in achieving patient outcome improvements, including reductions in 30-day readmissions. South Nassau earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure patients at a set level for a designated period. These measures include: patient evaluation; proper use of medications (including ACE inhibitors/ARBs, beta-blockers, diuretics, anticoagulants and other appropriate therapies); and aggressive risk-reduction therapies, including patient education before patients discharged on managing heart failure and maintaining overall health, post-discharge follow-up visit and other transition interventions. South Nassau’s Center for Cardiovascular Health performs a wide range of coronary and peripheral interventional procedures. The center averages a “door-to-balloon- The Center is accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories; Electrophysiologists at the center use advanced technologies to provide timely, accurate diagnoses and therapies to treat a range of cardiac arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms). Services include diagnostic studies, implantation and testing of pacemakers and cardioverter defibrillators, and radio-frequency catheter ablation for the treatment of potentially fatal irregular heartbeats. The center’s clinical and non-invasive cardiologists specialize in trans-thoracic echocardiogram (a non-invasive, highly accurate and quick assessment of the overall health of the heart, in which a probe is placed on the chest wall of the patient to produce images of the heart); transesophageal echocardiogram (which uses a specialized probe containing an ultrasound transducer at its tip that is passed into the esophagus and is used to provide clear views of areas of the heart that would be difficult to view transthoracically); Additional cardiac imaging services offered by the center include nuclear cardiology (which generates images of the heart at work, during exercise, and at rest) and diagnostic peripheral vascular ultrasound (noninvasive diagnostic technique used to evaluate the health of blood vessels) for patients with peripheral arterial disease. South Nassau is the only hospital on Long Island to win four major awards for quality in recent months, including for women’s services, nursing excellence, and top rankings from U.S. News & World Report and from the Joint Commission. In addition, it is a recipient of the American Heart Association/ End
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