Here are 28 heart hospitals and programs recently earning designations and accreditations:
- Missoula, Mont.-based Providence St. Patrick Hospital earned The Joint Commission's Comprehensive Cardiac Center Certification for the first time.
- West Reading, Pa.-based Reading Hospital, part of Tower Health, received the Gold recognition from the American Heart Association for ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treatment.
- Tower Health's Phoenixville (Pa.) Hospital received the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Center Gold Plus recognition.
- Tower Health's Pottstown (Pa.) Hospital received the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Center Gold Plus recognition.
- The American Association of Critical Care Nurses awarded the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's cardiac catheterization lab and pre-post recovery unit the Gold Beacon Award for Excellence.
- Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center received the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Plus quality achievement award.
- Sandusky, Ohio-based Firelands Regional Medical Center received four heart and stroke awards from the American Heart Association:
- Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Plus
- Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus
- Mission: Lifeline-NSTEMI Silver
- Mission: Lifeline-STEMI Receiving Center Gold Plus
- Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Hospital was awarded the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus achievement award for the 13th consecutive year and Stony Brook Southampton (N.Y.) Hospital received it for the 10th consecutive year.
- Santa Clarita, Calif.-based Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital received the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award for the 11th consecutive year.
- Honolulu-based Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center received the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines and Mission: Lifeline awards for the treatment of heart disease.
- Fredericksville, Va.-based Mary Washington Hospital’s Primary Stroke Center received the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award.
- New York City-based Richmond University Medical Center received several achievement awards from the American Heart Association, which also named the hospital an Advanced Primary Stroke Center.
- Portsmouth (N.H.) Regional Hospital earned a three-star rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons for patient outcomes in isolated coronary artery bypass grafting procedures.
- Hickory, N.C.-based Fyre Regional Medical Center, a part of Durham, N.C.,-based Duke LifePoint Healthcare, was awarded the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Gold Plus achievement award.
- Cheyenne (Wyo.) Regional Medical Center received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure quality achievement award.
- Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Heart Institute received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-AFib Gold quality achievement award.
- Orange, Calif.-based UCI Health Comprehensive Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center received the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines-Stroke award.
- Laredo, Texas-based Cigarroa Surgical Center completed its accreditation process by The Joint Commission.
- Loma Linda (Calif.) University Medical Center’s Heart Failure Program completed accreditation by the American College of Cardiology.
- The American College of Cardiology awarded Southaven, Miss.-based Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto heart failure accreditation.
- The American College of Surgeons and the Society for Vascular Surgery verified the first four hospitals with its newly launched Vascular Verification Program.
- Sioux City, Iowa-based MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain-MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2023.
- St. Luke's Health-Memorial Lufkin (Texas) earned the American College of Cardiology's Chest Pain Center Accreditation with Primary PCI and Resuscitation.
- The American College of Cardiology awarded all eligible Hackensack Meridian medical centers with Chest Pain Center Accreditations.
- Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-based Kootenai Health was awarded a Level II Stroke Center designation by the state of Idaho's Time Sensitive Emergency System.
- Columbia, Tenn.-based Maury Regional Medical Center received the American College of Cardiology's National Cardiovascular Data Registry Chest Pain-MI Registry Gold Performance Achievement Award for 2023.
- Texas Health Harris Methodist Hurst-Euless-Bedford (Texas) has earned The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval and the American Heart Association's Heart-Check mark for Primary Heart Attack Center Certification.
- Springfield, Ore.-based PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend earned re-accreditation as a Chest Pain Center from the American College of Cardiology.