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WellSpan York Hospital has received the Get With The Guidelines®–Resuscitation Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association.
The recognition signifies that WellSpan York Hospital has reached an aggressive goal in using guidelines-based care to improve patient outcomes from in-hospital cardiac arrest.
The Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation program aims to help hospital teams save more lives threatened by cardiopulmonary emergencies by consistently following the most up-to-date scientific guidelines for treating patients who suffer a cardiac arrest in the hospital.
More than 18,800 in-hospital cardiac arrests occur each year, according to the American Heart Association.
Get With The Guidelines–Resuscitation helps WellSpan York Hospital’s staff develop and implement protocols that can reduce disability and death from cardiac and respiratory emergencies. It provides an evidence-based, quality improvement program of patient safety, medical emergency team response, effective resuscitation and post-emergency care.
Specifically, WellSpan York Hospital was recognized for meeting identified measures in caring for adult cardiac arrest patients.
Best possible outcomes sought
“WellSpan York Hospital is dedicated to helping our patients have the best possible outcome and implementing the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines–Resuscitation program will help us accomplish this by making it easier for our teams to put proven knowledge and guidelines to work on a daily basis,” said Julie Miksit, vice president, WellSpan Heart & Vascular.
Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation builds on the work of the American Heart Association’s National Registry of CardioPulmonary Resuscitation (NRCPR), originally launched in 1999 as a database of in-hospital resuscitation events from more than 500 hospitals.
The data from the registry and now the quality program give participating hospitals feedback on their resuscitation practice and patient outcomes. They have been used to develop new evidence-based guidelines for in-hospital resuscitation.
WellSpan York Hospital joins other hospitals across the country in putting those data to work in everyday practice to save lives, ensuring cardiac arrest patients are getting timely CPR, defibrillation or other appropriate treatment within minutes of being found in cardiac arrest.
“WellSpan York Hospital’s commitment to Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation puts our quality improvement interventions and strategies into the workflow of care for their patients who experience cardiac arrest,” said Lee H. Schwamm, M.D., chair of the Get With The Guidelines National Steering Committee and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
“Shortening the time to effective resuscitation and maximizing post-resuscitation care is critical to patient survival.”
