Below is a quote from the Mission Hospital web site about their recent award.  More information is found at their website: http://missionhospitals.org

“Heart Services at Mission Hospital has received the Gold Performance Achievement Award given by the American College of Cardiology Foundation for treatment of heart attack. It is based on a hospital’s consistent use of treatment guidelines established by combining criteria from two rigorous programs. One is the ACTION Registry developed by the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. The other is the “Get With the Guidelines” program for heart attack developed by the American Heart Association.

The guidelines include aggressive use of medications like cholesterol-lowering drugs, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, aspirin, and anticoagulants in the hospital. The new guidelines combine the best of both programs into a single, unified national registry. It empowers health care provider teams to consistently treat heart attack patients according to 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 heart attack patients.

Hospitals achieve the Gold Performance Award for meeting these criteria at least 85% of the time for 24 consecutive months. Only 135 hospitals in the nation received the Gold Performance Award for 2010.

Mission won the Silver Performance Award in 2009 for having met the criteria for 12 months in a row.”

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