Hospitals

The American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline program’s goal is to reduce system barriers to prompt treatment for heart attacks, beginning with the 9-1-1 call, to EMS transport and continuing through hospital treatment and discharge.

“Brandywine Hospital is dedicated to providing optimal care for heart attack patients,” Vikram Acharya, Brandywine Hospital interim chief executive officer, said in the release. “We are pleased to be recognized for our dedication and achievements in cardiac care through Mission: Lifeline.”

The American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award recognizes a hospital’s commitment to ensuring heart failure patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines founded in the latest scientific evidence. The goal is speeding recovery and reducing hospital readmissions for heart failure patients.

The award is earned by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure patients at a set level for a designated period, including evaluation of the proper use of medications and aggressive risk-reduction therapies.

To qualify for the Target: Type 2 Honor Roll hospitals must meet quality measures with more than 90% compliance for 12 consecutive months for the “Overall Diabetes Cardiovascular Initiative Composite Score.”

“Thank you to the AHA for acknowledging our teams’ continued efforts in improving patient care for heart failure, stroke and diabetes,” Susan Reichenbach, RN, BS, CPHQ, vice president and chief quality officer at Phoenixville Hospital, said in the release. “We are very proud of these distinctions and our staff for the outstanding care they provide daily for our patients.”

Berks County-based Tower Health owns several of the region’s hospitals including: Brandywine Hospital in Caln Township; Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia; Jennersville Hospital in Penn Township in southern Chester County; Phoenixville Hospital in Phoenixville; Pottstown Hospital in Pottstown — acquired in 2017 for an estimated $418 million; Reading Hospital in West Reading; and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, a partnership of Tower Health and Drexel University in Philadelphia. It also includes Reading Hospital Rehabilitation at Wyomissing; Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences in West Reading; home healthcare services; and a network of 25 urgent care facilities across the Tower Health service area. For more information, visit towerhealth.org.