Princeton Medical Center Earns Gold for Heart Failure Treatment
June 23, 2022
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.
“We are trying to help people with heart failure manage their condition, stay healthy, and lead fuller lives,” said Lisa Motavalli, MD, a board certified cardiologist with Princeton Medicine Physicians. “The Get With The Guidelines initiative gives us a quality framework to achieve those goals.”
PMC earned its Target: Heart Failure Honor Roll award by meeting criteria that improve medication adherence, provide early follow-up care and coordination, and enhance patient education. PMC earned the Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll award by ensuring that patients with type 2 diabetes — who are at higher risk for complications — receive the most up-to-date, evidence-based care when they are hospitalized due to heart disease or stroke.
U.S. News & World Report has rated PMC as high performing in heart failure treatment for seven years in a row.
About Penn Medicine Princeton Health
Penn Medicine Princeton Health is one of the most comprehensive healthcare systems in New Jersey, providing acute care hospital services through Princeton Medical Center; behavioral healthcare through Princeton House Behavioral Health; in-home nursing, rehabilitation and hospice care; primary and specialty care through Princeton Medicine Physicians; ambulatory surgery and wellness services. For more information, visit www.princetonhcs.org. Princeton Health is part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), which, together with the University of Pennsylvania’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, forms Penn Medicine, one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research and excellence in patient care.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Andy Williams, andrew.williams3@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
609-695-6173 (mobile)
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.
“We are trying to help people with heart failure manage their condition, stay healthy, and lead fuller lives,” said Lisa Motavalli, MD, a board certified cardiologist with Princeton Medicine Physicians. “The Get With The Guidelines initiative gives us a quality framework to achieve those goals.”
PMC earned its Target: Heart Failure Honor Roll award by meeting criteria that improve medication adherence, provide early follow-up care and coordination, and enhance patient education. PMC earned the Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll award by ensuring that patients with type 2 diabetes — who are at higher risk for complications — receive the most up-to-date, evidence-based care when they are hospitalized due to heart disease or stroke.
U.S. News & World Report has rated PMC as high performing in heart failure treatment for seven years in a row.
About Penn Medicine Princeton Health
Penn Medicine Princeton Health is one of the most comprehensive healthcare systems in New Jersey, providing acute care hospital services through Princeton Medical Center; behavioral healthcare through Princeton House Behavioral Health; in-home nursing, rehabilitation and hospice care; primary and specialty care through Princeton Medicine Physicians; ambulatory surgery and wellness services. For more information, visit www.princetonhcs.org. Princeton Health is part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), which, together with the University of Pennsylvania’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, forms Penn Medicine, one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research and excellence in patient care.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Andy Williams, andrew.williams3@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
609-695-6173 (mobile)
