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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital ~ First Accredited Chest Pain Center In New York
NEW YORK, NY – February 12, 2004. The Society of Chest Pain Centers has granted the designation of Accredited Chest Pain Center to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, making it the first in New York and the 15th in the nation to be accredited.
“Accreditation of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital as a Chest Pain Center by the Society of Chest Pain Centers indicates that this institution conforms to the highest standards of care for patients with acute coronary syndromes,” said Dr. Ezra A. Amsterdam, Director of the Coronary Care Unit, University of California, Davis Medical Center and Accreditation Review Team member. “NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital demonstrated outstanding responses reflecting excellence in patient management and a commitment to maintain these high standards by their ongoing improvement processes.”
Dr. Herbert Pardes, President & CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, said, “We thank the Society of Chest Pain Centers for designating us an Accredited Chest Pain Center. We view this important designation as an opportunity for us to strengthen our commitment to maintaining the highest standards in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.”
“When it comes to chest pain, our mission is to provide rapid assessment and treatment for victims of heart attack, and to appropriately identify patients at risk for future heart attacks before discharge from the hospital,” said Dr. James Giglio, Director of Emergency Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
“When a patient presents with symptoms that may be atypical or subtle, including signs of a heart attack, a cardiac catheterization can save their lives.” said Dr. LeRoy Rabbani, Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Chest Pain Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. “For patients not experiencing a heart attack, we found that, prior to discharge, stress testing can identify whether they are at risk for future heart attacks.”
“NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital leads the nation in coordinating pre-hospital and emergency department care of patients with acute coronary disease.” said Dr. Neal Flomenbaum, Chief of Emergency Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, Medical Director of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Emergency Medical Services and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Dr. Robert Campagna, Director of the Acute Coronary Syndrome Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell and Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College said, “We have extraordinarily skilled and dedicated healthcare specialists working in the Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Medicine Department and Cardiology Department. By better coordinating the efforts of these three groups, we have taken a good system and made it great.”
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 ensures centers meet or exceed quality-of-care measures in acute cardiac medicine.
The Chest Pain Center at NewYork-Presbyterian 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
- Insuring 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 display symptoms of a possible heart attack
About NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a 2,369-bed academic medical center created from the merger between The New York Hospital and The Presbyterian Hospital. It provides state-of-the-art inpatient, ambulatory, and preventive care in all areas of medicine at five major centers: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, The Allen Pavilion, and the Westchester Division.
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 www.scpcp.org.
For more information on the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, contact Alicia Park at 212-305-5587 or alk9007@nyp.org.
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