St. Mary’s Health Receives American College of Cardiology Award for Cardiac Care

NCDR ACTION Registry–GWTG Platinum award recognizes high standards

(Evansville, IN)  St. Mary’s Health has received the ACTION Registry– Get with the Guidelines Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2015. This achievement was awarded by The American College of Cardiology’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry. St. Mary’s Health, part of Ascension, the nation’s largest Catholic and non-profit health system is one of only 319 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor. The award recognizes St. Mary’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that St. Mary’s has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.

To receive the ACTION Registry–GWTG Platinum Performance Achievement Award, St. Mary’s consistently followed the treatment guidelines in the ACTION Registry–GWTG Premier for eight consecutive quarters and met a performance standard of 90 percent for specific performance measures. Full participation in the registry engages hospitals in a robust quality improvement process using data to drive improvements in adherence to guideline recommendations and overall quality of care provided to heart attack patients.

“This award is a proud achievement for St. Mary’s. It reflects the hard work and dedication of the staff who care for some of our most seriously ill patients and their families,” said Jan Ernest, St. Mary’s Vice president of Cardiovascular and System Support Services. “The implementation of these guidelines requires successful coordination of the cardiovascular team and emergency personnel and is a critical step in saving the lives and improving outcomes of heart attack patients.”

ACTION Registry–GWTG is a partnership between the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association with partnering support from the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. ACTION Registry-GWTG empowers health care provider teams to consistently treat heart attack patients 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 heart attack patients.