We’ve always known it, and now even more people will know, too: our Cardiac Catheterization program is world-class.
The New York State Department of Health recognized the Mount Sinai Heart team and Cardiac Catheterization lab at Mount Sinai Beth Israel for their exceptional outcomes in treating percutaneous coronary interventions, also known as angioplasties. For the ratings that were just released, MSBI ranked best in New York state for non-emergent PCI safety outcomes.
John Fox, MD, Director of the MSBI Cardiac Catheterization Lab, said it best:
“Our lab comprises a group of people that form a working family, fostering one of the best environments for teaching fellows and safely helping people with complex medical problems.”
You can read more about this achievement here.
I also want to highlight that year after year, the American Heart Association® recognizes us for meeting specific quality achievement measures for the care of heart failure patients by awarding us with the following Get with the Guidelines Awards. Here are the awards for this year:
- Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Plus & Target: Heart Failure Honor Roll Award
- Mission: Lifeline STEMI Gold Receiving for STEMI care
Get With The Guidelines® is the American Heart Association hospital-based quality improvement program that provides hospitals with the latest research-based guidelines. Developed with the goal of saving lives and hastening recovery, Get With The Guidelines has touched the lives of more than 9 million patients since 2001. For more information, visit www.heart.org.
Meeting these exceptional quality standards requires complicated coordination across many different areas of our hospital. When our EMS teams identify a patient having a myocardial infarction (aka heart attack) and alert us early on, our ED and heart teams can be ready to receive the patient and prepare the appropriate treatments.
In addition, the American Heart Association® measures our heart teams on evaluation of the proper use of medications, aggressive risk-reduction therapies, and other evidence-based guidelines for heart failure and stroke patients. Before discharge, patients also receive education and get follow-up visits scheduled. Part of what we measure is the readmission rates for these patients with the goal of giving them the tools to recover and stay out of the hospital.
I want to thank many of the other teams who make this coordinated care possible, including EMS, Transportation, ED, Cath lab, Inpatient Care, Radiology, and many others.
