CROUSE HOSPITAL RECEIVES NATIONAL ACCREDITATION FOR
HEART FAILURE
Crouse Hospital has received full Cycle I Heart Failure Accreditation
status from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. Only 75 hospitals
in the U.S. have received this recognition. Crouse also is a nation
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ally accredited Chest Pain Center by the Society and was the first
hospital in New York State to receive dual heart failure and chest
pain accreditation. Heart failure is a leading cause of morbidity and
mortality in the U.S. Approximately five million patients in the U.S.
have heart failure. In addition, heart failure patients are responsible
for 12–15 million physician office visits per year and 6.5 million hospi
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tal days.
The goal of the Society of Chest Pain Centers is to help facili-
ties manage the heart failure patient more efficiently and improve
patient outcomes. Crouse Hospital has demonstrated its expertise
and commitment to quality patient care by meeting or exceeding
a wide set of stringent criteria and undergoing on-site evaluations
by a review team from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. Crouse's
protocol-driven and systematic approach to patient management al
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lows physicians to reduce time to treatment and to stratify patients'
risk to decrease length of stay.
Key areas in which a facility with heart failure accreditation must
demonstrate expertise include:
+ Emergency Department integration with Emergency
Medical Services
+ Emergency assessment of patients with symptoms
of acute decompensated heart failure
+ Risk stratification of heart failure patients
+ Treatment for patients presenting to the Emergency
Department in heart failure
+ Heart failure discharge criteria
+ Heart failure patient education in the Emergency Department,
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