3 Northern Skilled Nursing Homes Achieve AHA Gold Status For Heart BP

Centers Health Care is saying congratulations to the clinical teams at three of their Rockland County skilled nursing facilities; Northern Riverview Healthcare Center in Haverstraw, Northern Manor in Nanuet, and Northern Metropolitan Residential Healthcare Facility in Monsey. These three Northern nursing homes and rehabilitation centers have achieved 2023 high standings from the American Heart Association’s Target: BP program. Both the 180-bed Northern Riverview and the larger 231-bed Northern Manor achieved Gold status, while the 120-bed Northern Metropolitan achieved Gold-Plus status.

Target: BP is a national initiative formed by the AHA and the American Medical Association (AMA) in response to the high prevalence of uncontrolled blood pressure (BP). Target: BP helps healthcare organizations and care teams, at no cost, improve BP control rates through an evidence-based quality improvement program and recognizes organizations committed to improving BP control. Achieving Gold signifies that these healthcare facilities are recognized practices that have 70 percent or more of their adult population with high BP controlled. Gold-plus recognizes practices that meet the Gold status criteria and also complete four of six evidenced-based Blood Pressure (BP) activities.

“We are so proud of these three Rockland Counties facilities having achieved and accomplished Gold status in the American Heart Association Target: BP program for this year," said Meagan Grillo-Zinke, RN, BSN, Centers Health Care's Clinical Manager of Value-Based Programs & Clinical Integration. Ms. Grillo-Zinke, who is heading up the Target: BP program from Centers Health Care, also says, "These three skilled nursing facilities have taken cardiac care very seriously for their seniors, and being awarded shows that their hard work is paying off and their residents are in great hands when it comes to blood pressure control.”