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Heart Failure Accreditation
Heart failure has emerged on the top of the list as the country debates healthcare reform. There are 8,000,000 Americans with heart failure. 600,000 are newly diagnosed each year. A systematic approach is needed.
The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium (a hospital membership organization) provides the needed approach:
- Heart failure is a chronic disease
The Colloquium is the only accrediting body using a chronic disease state model for accreditation.
- Heart failure affects individuals 24/7 whether they are in the hospital or not.
The Colloquium is the only accrediting body that covers the entire Continuum of care.
- Improving heart failure care has proven daunting to nearly all American hospitals
The Colloquium has the only accreditation process based upon process improvement.
- Interested in learning more about becoming an Accredited Heart Failure Institute?
[Click Here]
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Thomson Named to Board
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October 15, 2009
Thomson, Executive Director of The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, was recently invited to serve on the board of the Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium. He considers it an honor, and the feeling is mutual. [Read More]
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Using a Heart Failure Acuity Algorithm for Emergency Admision Decision-Making
presented by: Robert Touchan, MD; Frank Smart, MD; Tony Joseph, MD: October 15, 2009
Heart failure is chronic and progressive. Nearly 100% of all heart failure patients decompensate at some point. It is common for individuals with decompensated heart failure to present to the Emergency Department (ED) for evaluation and treatment. A systematic algorithm based upon objective clinical variables can be used as a decision-making framework for this population of patients. Objective clinical variables (OCVs) can include historic data and physical findings as well as test results. Obtaining and organizing the OCVs in the ED prior to the admission decision permits the ED to become the site of decision-making that is often otherwise relegated to inpatient services. .[Read More]
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Growing Your Heart Failure Program
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presented by: Elaine Greer, RN, MN, CCRN: October 15, 2009
The outpatient heart failure clinic plays a major role in the Community Domain of Heart Failure.[Read More]
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