St. Mary's Hospital earns awards
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Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital is one of five Bon Secours Richmond hospitals to receive awards recently from the American Heart Association & American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines program.
The hospital’s Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit also received the gold-level Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Get with The Guidelines recognizes a hospital’s commitment to ensuring that stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. It awards hospitals that meet specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a set level for a designated period. These measures include evaluation of the proper use of medications and other stroke treatments aligned with the most up-to-date, evidence-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients.
Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital earned the Get with the Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Award and the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite award. In addition, St. Mary’s Hospital received the Get with the Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Plus Award.
The CICU award is given to units that achieve a three-year, three-level award with gold, silver or bronze designations and meet national criteria consistent with Magnet Recognition, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the National Quality Healthcare Award.
The Beacon Award for Excellence recognizes unit caregivers who successfully improve patient outcomes and align practices with AACN’s six Healthy Work Environment Standards.
St. Mary’s Hospital CVICU earned the gold award by meeting the following evidence-based Beacon Award for Excellence criteria: leadership structures and systems; appropriate staffing and staff engagement; effective communication, knowledge management, and learning and development; evidence-based practice and processes; and outcome measurement.
