Seven Mount Sinai hospitals have received quality achievement awards from the American Heart Association (AHA) for ensuring that patients with stroke, heart failure, and heart attacks receive the most appropriate and safe treatments to strive toward the best possible outcomes.

Mount Sinai was recognized for its commitment to ensuring that stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. The Get With The Guidelines® Stroke quality improvement initiative aims to decrease readmissions and lower mortality rates.

The following hospitals received Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Awards, and many were recognized for additional care they provide in special populations like those with type 2 diabetes or needing advanced therapy.

  • Mount Sinai Beth Israel
  • Mount Sinai Brooklyn
  • The Mount Sinai Hospital
  • Mount Sinai Morningside
  • Mount Sinai Queens
  • Mount Sinai South Nassau
  • Mount Sinai West

The AHA also acknowledged several Mount Sinai hospitals for their efforts in heart failure care and implementing specific quality improvement measures with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing hospital readmissions for heart failure patients. Numerous published studies demonstrate that the Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure programs have achieved significant improvements in patient outcomes including reducing 30-day readmissions.

Mount Sinai hospitals received these following awards:

Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold Plus with Target: Heart Failure Honor Roll and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll

  • The Mount Sinai Hospital
  • Mount Sinai South Nassau

Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold with Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll

  • Mount Sinai Beth Israel

Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Bronze

  • Mount Sinai Morningside

Mount Sinai was also recognized for coordinating STEMI and non-STEMI heart attack care for our communities. ST-elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) is the deadliest type of heart attack. To prevent death in STEMI heart attacks, it is critical to restore blood flow as quickly as possible, either by mechanically opening the blocked vessel or by providing clot-busting medication. The AHA’s Mission: Lifeline program’s goal is to improve prompt treatment for heart attacks, beginning with the 911 call, to EMS transport, and continuing through hospital treatment and discharge. The following hospitals were recognized:

Mission: Lifeline® Receiving Gold for STEMI Care

  • Mount Sinai Beth Israel
  • The Mount Sinai Hospital
  • Mount Sinai Morningside

Mission: Lifeline® Receiving Gold Plus and Mission Lifeline® NSTEMI Silver

  • Mount Sinai Morningside

Click here to see the full list of awards for all GWTG programs across the country organized by state.

Mount Sinai leaders expressed their thanks to the teams that provide this care. The leaders are: Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart, Mount Sinai Health System, and Physician-in-Chief, The Mount Sinai Hospital; Beth Oliver, DNP, RN, Chief Nurse Executive and Senior Vice President, Cardiac Services, Mount Sinai Health System; Barbara Vickrey, MD, MPH, Chair, Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai Health System and Henry P. and Georgette Goldschmidt Professor of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; and Joshua B. Bederson, MD, Leonard I. Malis, MD / Corinne and Joseph Graber Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Health System.

“These awards are evidence of the vital care our Mount Sinai family provides to our patients in their greatest moments of need,” they said in a statement. ”We are grateful to the multidisciplinary teams who—through these valuable programs and daily actions of compassion and agility—save thousands of lives each year.”

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