KP Redwood City earns Gold for stroke, heart care: Heart Assn.

Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Medical Center is being recognized by the American Heart Association for providing high-quality care to stroke and heart failure patients.

Kaiser Permanente Redwood City received the Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award – acknowledging the 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 hospital also received the Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, which recognize hospitals that demonstrate at least 85 percent compliance in each of the seven Get With The Guidelines®- Stroke Achievement Measures for 24 consecutive months or more.

“These dual awards are a tribute to the diligent work of our medical teams, who put the patient at the center of all they do,” said Sheila Gilson, Senior Vice President and Area Manager of Kaiser Permanente Redwood City.

In all, twenty Kaiser Permanente Northern California hospitals received the Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and the Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.

“Kaiser Permanente Redwood City is an accredited comprehensive stroke center,” said Grace Firtch, Physician in Chief at KP Redwood City, “These awards are wonderful recognition of the outstanding care our patients receive everyday.”

The Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement 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. These measures include evaluation of the proper use of medications and aggressive risk-reduction therapies. Before discharge, patients should also receive education on managing their heart failure and overall health, get a follow-up visit scheduled, as well as other care transition interventions.

The Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award is earned by meeting 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. Before discharge, patients should also receive education on managing their health, get a follow-up visit scheduled, as well as other care transition interventions.