This means that St. Francis has reached an “aggressive goal” of treating heart failure patients with an 85 percent compliance rate to core standard levels of care outlined by the AHA/American College of Cardiology secondary prevention guidelines for heart failure patients.
The Guidelines program helps St. Francis’ staff develop and implement acute and secondary prevention guideline processes with quality measures such as care maps, discharge protocols, standing orders and measurement tools. Ultimately, AHA officials say, this improves quality of care to heart failure patients, saves lives and reduces health-care costs by lowering the recurrence of heart attacks.
To learn more about the services at the St. Francis Heart Center, go to http://myheartcare.net.
