Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center earned the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines awards for stroke care and heart failure treatment.
Stroke
For the fourth year in a row, Princeton Medical Center (PMC) earned the Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, which is granted by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) to hospitals that demonstrate a commitment to high-quality stroke care.
PMC earned two additional, related awards from the AHA/ASA – Target: StrokeSM Honor Roll Elite and Target: Type 2 DiabetesSM Honor Roll.
Stroke is the No. 5 cause of death and a leading cause of disability in the United States. Early detection and treatment are key to saving lives, minimizing disability and accelerating recovery times. The Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke program helps hospitals improve stroke care by adhering to the latest evidence-based guidelines.
Hospitals are evaluated on quality measures that focus on appropriate medications, treatment methods, and patient education and counseling.
Hospitals must meet or exceed the guidelines for 24 consecutive months to earn their first Gold award. PMC has maintained that level of excellence now for 60 consecutive months.
The Joint Commission and the AHA/ASA have designated PMC as a Primary Stroke Center, recognizing the hospital’s exceptional efforts to foster better outcomes for patients who have experienced strokes.
Heart Failure
Princeton Medical Center (PMC) has earned the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, signifying its commitment to providing consistent, quality care aligned with the latest evidence-based guidelines.
PMC earned two additional, related awards from the American Heart Association (AHA) – Target: Heart FailureSM Honor Roll and Target: Type 2 DiabetesSM Honor Roll.
About 6.2 million American adults live with heart failure, a chronic, progressive condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs for blood and oxygen.
Get With The Guidelines is an in-hospital program for improving care by promoting consistent adherence to the latest scientific treatment guidelines. The heart failure guidelines establish treatment protocols with the best evidence to speed recovery, reduce hospital readmissions, and improve the quality of life for patients with heart failure. Participating hospitals are evaluated on their performance related to achievement measures in key areas such as prescribing appropriate medications, providing necessary diagnostic tests, and scheduling follow-up visits.
To earn Gold, PMC met or exceeded the achievement measures for 24 consecutive months. PMC added Plus status by documenting performance in four additional quality measures.