BMC Receives Gold Performance Achievement Award
PITTSFIELD — Berkshire Medical Center has received the American College of Cardiology Foundation’s NCDR ACTION Registry–GWTG Gold Performance Achievement Award for 2012. It is one of only 26 hospitals nationwide to do so.
The award recognizes BMC’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart-attack patients, and signifies that BMC has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients with standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Assoc. clinical guidelines and recommendations.
To receive the ACTION Registry–GWTG Gold Performance Achievement Award, BMC consistently followed the treatment guidelines in ACTION Registry–GWTG for eight consecutive quarters and met a performance standard of 90{06cf2b9696b159f874511d23dbc893eb1ac83014175ed30550cfff22781411e5} for specific performance measures. Following these treatment guidelines improves adherence to ACC/AHA clinical guideline recommendations, monitors drug safety, and improves the overall quality of care provided to ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients (NSTEMI).
“For more than a decade, BMC has been focused on improving the quality of cardiovascular care by implementing ACTION Registry–GWTG,” said Dr. Gray Ellrodt, BMC chief quality officer and chairman of the Department of Medicine. “The number of acute myocardial infarction patients eligible for treatment is expected to grow over the next decade due to increasing incidence of heart disease and a large aging population, and the care protocols that we have at BMC will help to ensure these patients receive the best care possible.”
ACTION Registry–GWTG is a partnership between the American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Assoc., with partnering support from the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Society of Chest Pain Centers, and the Society of Hospital Medicine. ACTIO Registry–GWTG empowers healthcare provider teams to consistently treat heart-attack patients according to the most current, science-based guidelines and establishes a national standard for understanding and improving the quality, safety, and outcomes of care provided for patients with coronary artery disease, specifically high-risk STEMI and NSTEMI patients.
