Centennial Medical Center Receives Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award

Oct. 19, 2015 - PRLog -- Centennial Medical Center (CMC) has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines^®-Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award.  The award recognizes CMC’s commitment and success in applying the most up-to-date evidence-based treatment guidelines to improve patient care and outcomes in the community.

To receive the award, CMC achieved 85 percent or higher adherence to all Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Achievement indicators for two or more consecutive 12-month intervals and achieved 75 percent or higher compliance with seven of 10 Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Measures, which are reporting initiatives to measure quality of care.

“We’re proud to be recognized for implementing a system that allows us to help our stroke patients receive the best possible outcomes,” said CMC CNO Calee Travis. “We believe this demonstrates our commitment to quality care in our community and this award attests to the hard work our staff strives for every day.”

Get With The Guidelines-Stroke uses the “teachable moment,” the time soon after a patient has had a stroke, when they are most likely to listen to and follow their healthcare professionals’ guidance. Studies demonstrate that patients who are taught how to manage their risk factors while still in the hospital reduce their risk of a second heart attack or stroke.

Through Get With The Guidelines–Stroke, customized patient education materials are made available at the point of discharge, based on a patient’s individual risk profiles. The materials are written in an easy-to-understand format and are available in English and Spanish. In addition, the Get With The Guidelines Patient Management Tool gives healthcare providers access to up-to-date cardiovascular and stroke science at the point of care.

According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is one of the leading causes of death and serious, long-term disability in the United States.  On average, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies of a stroke every four minutes; and 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.

ABOUT CENTENNIAL MEDICAL CENTER

Centennial Medical Center is a 118-bed full-service hospital that offers an array of services ranging from maternity, radiology and pediatrics to sophisticated services such as neurosurgery, open heart surgery and the latest procedures in joint replacement.  Located off Highway 121 and Coit Road, the hospital is easily accessible for its residents when they have a health care crisis.  Centennial Medical Center is recognized by numerous organizations for quality care and has been named a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission, Certified Chest Pain Center by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care, Certification for Spinal Surgery by The Joint Commission, Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology, and Texas 10 Step facility by the Texas Department of State Health Services and Texas Hospital Association.  The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency, licensed by the state of Texas and certified for participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.  For more information about Centennial Medical Center, the Hospital That Cares Completely, visit www.CentennialMedCenter.com.

ABOUT GET WITH THE GUIDELINES

Get With The Guidelines^® is the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s hospital-based quality improvement program that empowers healthcare teams to save lives and reduce healthcare costs by helping hospitals follow evidence-based guidelines and recommendations.  For more information, visit heart.org/quality (http://www.heart.org/quality).