COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Society of Chest Pain Centers has granted the designation of Accredited Chest Pain Center to Doctors Hospital, making it the second in the Columbus metro area, fourth in Ohio, and 34th in the nation to be accredited.
“I’m very proud of our accreditation,” said David Disbrow, Vice President, Operations, Doctors Hospital. “Although our open-heart program is relatively young, this accreditation shows the quality of care and level of expertise we provide to our community. It’s an awesome accomplishment for the entire hospital.”
“Our goal is to open the artery of a person who comes to our hospital with a heart attack within 90 minutes,” said Nancy Colburn, RN, Manager, Heart Services. “Time is muscle, and the sooner a person is treated the better that person’s success of recovery. Accreditation shows Doctors Hospital meets nationwide standards for treatment of patients with heart disease.”
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 Doctors 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 Doctors Hospital
Doctors Hospital is part of OhioHealth, a nationally recognized, Columbus- based, not-for-profit, charitable organization serving and supported by the community. It is a family of hospitals, health and surgery centers, home- health providers, medical equipment and other health service suppliers throughout a 46-county area. Other OhioHealth hospitals in Franklin County are Riverside Methodist Hospital and Grant Medical Center. More information can be obtained at http://www.ohiohealth.com/ .
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 Doctors Hospital, contact Susan Vaughn, Media Relations at (614) 566-8855 or svaughn@ohiohealth.com.
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: Media Relations, Susan Vaughn of OhioHealth, +1-614-566-8855,or svaughn@ohiohealth.com; or Robert Weisenburger Lipetz, Executive Directorof Society of Chest Pain Centers, +1-614-274-9710, or director@scpcp.org
