GRIFFIN, GA – September 10, 2010. Spalding Regional Medical Center has been recognized by the American Heart Association with a Gold Award for achievement in using evidence-based guidelines to provide the best possible care to patients. Spalding Regional achieved the status in AHA’s Get With The Guidelines Program, earning gold for two separate categories, heart failure and coronary artery disease.
Spalding Regional was featured along with other award winners in a special advertisement of “America’s Best Hospitals” issue of US News & World Report (August Issue) to commemorate this award. The American Heart Association advertisement recognizes Spalding Regional’s commitment and success in performance achievement.
Get With The Guidelines is a hospital-based quality-improvement program designed to ensure that hospitals consistently care for cardiac patients following the most up-to-date guidelines and recommendations. Currently more than 1,400 hospitals participate in the program.
“The American Heart Association is pleased to recognize its top Get With The Guidelines participants,” said. Lee Schwamm, M.D., national chairman of the Get With The Guidelines steering committee, associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and Vice Chairman of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. “The goal of this initiative is to improve the quality of life and help reduce deaths and disability among patients with heart disease. Published scientific studies are providing us with more and more evidence that Get With The Guidelines works. Patients are getting the right care they need when they need it. That’s resulting in improved survival.”
“This is an honor to be included in the American Heart Association’s ‘American’s Best Hospitals’ issue of US News & World Report recognizing Spalding Regional Medical Center for our achievements in their Get With The Guidelines program,” stated John Quinn, CEO. “It acknowledges our continual pursuit to provide the highest quality care possible for our community.”
About Spalding Regional Medical Center
Spalding Regional Medical Center, part of Tenet Healthcare, is a 160-bed acute care hospital located at Griffin, Ga. The hospital has been serving the medical and health care needs of Spalding, Butts, Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Lamar and Pike counties for more than 100 years. Spalding Regional provides a number of services, including specialties in orthopedics, women’s services, cardiac care, oncology services, physical, occupational and speech therapy and sleep medicine. Spalding Regional Medical Center is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. For more information, visit www.spaldingregional.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.
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