HEALTHY LIFESTYLE · AUGUST 2017
The team understands how
crucial it is that quality care
be administered immediately
to produce optimal results.
DHR is proud to say that
they have an 85% composite
adherence and at least
twenty-four consecutive
months of 75% or higher
compliance with the Mission
Lifeline STEMI Receiving
Center quality measures to
improve the type, quality, and
outcome of care for STEMI
patients.
DOCTORS HOSPITAL AT
RENAISSANCE RECEIVES
TRIPLE GOLD RECOGNITION
S
outh Texas boasts great people,
great scenery, and now one of
its institutions, Doctors Hospital
at Renaissance, has achieved the
coveted Triple Gold recognition
for its heart attack, heart failure, and stroke
patient care services. This is the only hospital
in South Texas to have been awarded such an
achievement, and it's no wonder. Since the
inception of the Get With The Guidelines-
Heart Failure quality improvement program,
DHR's team and other hospital teams across
the country follow the most up-to-date,
research-based standards. These standards
are intended to decrease recovery time and
reduce the number of hospital readmissions
for heart failure patients.
This year, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance
Health System received a total of three
notable distinctions. In addition to the Get
With The Guidelines, they also received
the Stroke Gold Plus Quality Award with
Target Stroke and the Honor Roll Elite from
the American Heart Association/American
Stroke Association. Receiving these revered
distinctions demonstrates how the DHR
community strives to go above and beyond
patient care and in ensuring that they stay
a step ahead of the competition. Their
efforts are testament to the drive to be the
innovative leader in South Texas when it
comes to top-notch, comprehensive health
care.
“THE ENTIRE MISSION
OF THE LIFELINE GOLD
QUALITY ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD PROGRAM IS TO
DECREASE ANY AND ALL
SYSTEM BARRIERS THAT
PROMPT TREATMENT FOR
HEART ATTACKS.”
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In order to receive
recognition, the hospital
had to meet specific
qualifications and standards
of measure, proving that
they had reduced the time
between the patient's
initial arrival at the hospital
and the clot-buster tissue
plasminogen activator or tPA
treatment—currently, the only U.S. Food and
Drug Administration drug approved to treat
ischemic stroke. DHR earned this distinction
because they were able to prove that they
could and had met the criteria for the
diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients
at a set level for a designated period of time.
They, in fact, performed so well that they
set a new hospital record for providing the
fastest door-to-treatment time for stroke.
Their start-to-finish response time came in at
only twelve minutes.
In addition to the distinctions they'd already
received, the Doctors Hospital at Renaissance
Health System team also received the
Accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary
PCI and an Accredited Heart Failure program
recognition by the American College of
Cardiology. Now, they are designated as an
Advanced Primary Stroke Center by the Joint
Commission, and they are the only facility
in South Texas to have received the CARF
Accredited Inpatient Rehabilitation programs
for Adults, Children and Adolescents. Doctors
Hospital at Renaissance Health System is the
only CARF Stroke Specialty Inpatient Rehab
program in the Rio Grande Valley.