FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Society of Chest Pain Centers has granted the designation of Accredited Chest Pain Center to Botsford General Hospital, making it the second facility in Michigan, and the 46th in the nation to be accredited.
“Chest Pain Center accreditation is an important healthcare issue. The public has a right to know which hospitals have dedicated chest pain programs. Unfortunately, in Michigan and throughout the United States, there is great variability in how chest pain is treated at each hospital. The goal of the Society of Chest Pain Centers is to standardize the treatment of chest pain throughout the world. The protocols and guidelines already exist and we need to follow them,” said Dr. Stomel, Chief of Cardiology at Botsford General Hospital.
“It was obvious that Botsford General Hospital has an active and sincere community involvement,” stated Scott Soronen, Society of Chest Pain Center Accreditation team member. “Our site visit concluded that all personnel including administrative, nurses as well as medical staff work in a coordinated manner. This was demonstrated to our team in the Emergency Room and clearly evident in our on-site meetings.”
Heart attacks are the leading cause of death in the United States, with 600,000 dying annually of heart disease. More than five million Americans visit hospitals each year with chest pain. The goal of the Society of Chest Pain Centers is to significantly reduce the mortality rate of these patients by teaching the public to recognize and react to the early symptoms of a possible heart attack, reduce the time that it takes to receive treatment, and increase the accuracy and effectiveness of treatment.
The Chest Pain Center’s protocol driven and systematic approach to patient management allows physicians to reduce time to treatment during the critical early stages of a heart attack, when treatments are most effective, and to better monitor patients when it is not clear whether they are having a coronary event. Such observation helps ensure that a patient is neither sent home too early nor needlessly admitted.
With the rise of Chest Pain Centers came the need to establish standards designed to improve the consistency and quality of care provided to patients. The Society’s accreditation process insures centers meet or exceed quality-of- care measures in acute cardiac medicine.
The Chest Pain Center at Botsford General Hospital has demonstrated its expertise and commitment to quality patient care by meeting or exceeding a wide set of stringent criteria and completing on-site evaluations by a review team from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. Key areas in which a Chest Pain Center must demonstrate expertise include:
-- Integrating the emergency department with the local emergency medical system -- Assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients quickly -- Effectively treating patients with low risk for acute coronary syndrome and no assignable cause for their symptoms -- Having a functional design that promotes optimal patient care -- Ensuring Chest Pain Center personnel competency and training -- Maintaining organizational structure and commitment -- Continually seeking to improve processes and procedures -- Supporting community outreach programs that educate the public to promptly seek medical care if they have display symptoms of a possible heart attack About Botsford General Hospital
Botsford General Hospital is a 336-bed acute care health care facility reaching out to serve communities in northwest Detroit and southern Oakland and western Wayne counties. A nationally-recognized osteopathic teaching facility, Botsford provides a regional campus for the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Each year about 110 residents and 36 interns are trained at the hospital.
Botsford provides an array of services, technology and exceptional facilities for treating patients on an in patient or out patient basis. A medical staff of more than 500 physicians representing a wide range of medical specialties provides primary, specialty and preventive care. For more information, visit http://www.botsfordsystem.org/ .
About the Society of Chest Pain Centers
The Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC) is an international professional society focused on improving care for patients with acute coronary syndromes and related maladies. The Society is committed to improving the quality of patient care through protocol-based medicine and the adoption of process improvement science to healthcare. SCPC is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. For more information, visit http://www.scpcp.org/ .
For more information on the Society of Chest Pain Centers, please contact Robert Weisenburger Lipetz, Executive Director at (614) 274-9710 or director@scpcp.org .
Society of Chest Pain Centers
CONTACT: Robert Weisenburger Lipetz, Executive Director of the Societyof Chest Pain Centers, +1-614-274-9710, or director@scpcp.org
