CAMC Memorial Hospital has received the Get With The Guidelines®–Resuscitation Bronze Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognition signifies that CAMC Memorial Hospital has reached an aggressive goal in using guidelines-based care to improve patient outcomes from in-hospital cardiac arrest.
A representative from the American Heart Association is scheduled to present the award to Jean Matthews, RN, certified abstractor GWG/Resuscitation at the Jan. 24 management information meeting.
The Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation program aims to help hospital teams save more lives threatened by cardiopulmonary emergencies by consistently following the most up-to-date scientific guidelines for treating patients who suffer a cardiac arrest in the hospital.
Get With The Guidelines–Resuscitation helps CAMC Memorial Hospital’s staff develop and implement protocols that can reduce disability and death from cardiac and respiratory emergencies. It provides an evidence-based, quality improvement program of patient safety, medical emergency team response, effective resuscitation and post-emergency care.
CAMC Memorial Hospital joins other hospitals across the country in putting that data to work in everyday practice to save lives. As a Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation Bronze Award recipient, over the past 90 consecutive days, the hospital has, among other achievements:
- Had more than 20 percent of cardiac arrest patients survive to hospital discharge
- Ensured that at least 85 percent of cardiac arrest patients are getting timely CPR, defibrillation or other appropriate treatment within minutes of being found in cardiac arrest.
“CAMC Memorial Hospital is dedicated to helping our patients have the best possible outcome and implementing the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines–Resuscitation program will help us accomplish this by making it easier for our teams to put proven knowledge and guidelines to work on a daily basis,” Matthews said.
Get With The Guidelines® is the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s hospital-based quality improvement program that empowers health care teams to save lives and reduce health care costs by helping hospitals follow evidence-based guidelines and recommendations.
