Northside Hospital Recognized For Providing Quality Heart Care

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Northside Hospital-Atlanta has been recognized for providing high quality cardiovascular care through the American Heart Association (AHA) Mission: Lifeline and Get With The Guidelines® programs.

“I am very proud of our physicians and staff for their hard work in achieving these awards,” said Patricia Tyson, administrative director, Northside Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute. “These quality improvement programs help our hospital teams provide the most up-to-date, research-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing hospital readmissions.”

The Sandy Springs hospital received AHA’s Mission: Lifeline® STEMI Receiving Center Bronze Level Recognition Award, recognizing the hospital’s commitment and success in implementing exceptional standards of care for heart attack patients.

According to AHA, each year more than 500,000 Americans have a STEMI (ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction), out-of-hospital cardiac arrest or both. The majority of these patients fail to receive appropriate treatment within recommended timeframes.

“As a ’STEMI-Receiving Hospital,’ Northside Hospital-Atlanta has the expertise, equipment, facilities and other resources to perform PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention), within the STEMI system of care and help patients get the right care they need as quickly as possible,” Tyson added. 

Northside Hospital-Atlanta also was recognized with AHA Get With The Guidelines® Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for heart failure and Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award for stroke; as well as the ACTION Registry- Get With The Guidelines Gold Performance Achievement Award for quality care in the treatment of acute myocardial infraction patients.

Northside Hospital-Atlanta offers a wide range of diagnostic, treatment and support services – encompassing the entire continuum of care for the heart and vascular patient. A team of board-certified cardiologists, vascular surgeons, cardiac-trained nurses and technologists at Northside has the highest level of expertise in diagnosing and treating disorders like coronary artery blockages, congenital heart defects, heart failure and stroke.

In addition to Mission: Lifeline and Get With The Guidelines, the hospital is an Accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI and an Advanced Primary Stroke Center.

For more information, visit northside.com/heartandvascular.

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Photo credit: Northside Hospital