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Quality Measures: Cardiac Care
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Review our quality measures reports below to see how our providers follow recommended standards of care and meet or exceed national benchmarks so you get the best outcome from your treatment.
Heart Attack Care
A heart attack, or an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), happens when a blocked artery restricts or stops blood flow to the heart. Early treatment can prevent or limit damage to your heart and help you get the best possible outcome.
Effective Heart Attack Care
At Mount Auburn Hospital, you or your loved ones benefit from heart attack care that meets or exceeds national standards.
Mortality Rate 30 Days After Hospital Discharge
This data reflects death for any reason within 30 days of admission for a heart attack.
Mount Auburn Hospital: 11.6%
United States Average: 12.3%
Get Help for a Heart Attack
If you or a loved one experience signs of a heart attack, call 911 right away. Heart attack symptoms include:
- Chest pain or discomfort
- Shortness of breath
- Nausea, lightheadedness or vomiting
- Back, neck, jaw, arm or stomach pain or discomfort
Heart Failure Care
If you experience heart failure, your heart can’t pump enough blood to get your body the oxygen and nutrients it needs. While not the same as a heart attack, heart failure can be caused by a heart attack.
Effective Heart Failure Care
At Mount Auburn Hospital, you or your loved ones benefit from heart failure care that meets national standards.
Mortality Rate 30 Days After Hospital Admission
This data reflects death for any reason within 30 days of admission for heart failure, also known as congestive heart failure.
Mount Auburn Hospital: 10.2%
United States Average: 11.2%
Interventional Cardiology Procedures
Interventional cardiology procedures treat heart conditions without surgery. Instead, they use long, thin, flexible tubes called catheters that are inserted into an artery and guided through your blood vessels to your heart.
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Care
During percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also called angioplasty, your doctor uses a catheter with a balloon on the end to open a narrowed or blocked blood vessel. He or she may also place a stent to keep the vessel open.
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Care
If you have a serious arrhythmia, your doctor may recommend an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) to monitor and treat your irregular heartbeat. Your doctor will implant the ICD under your skin and use catheters to run thin wires from the device through your blood vessels to your heart.
Effective PCI and ICD Procedures
The Mount Auburn Hospital Division of Cardiology participates in the American College of Cardiology National Cardiovascular Disease Registries (NCDR) for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI Registry), Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD Registry) and Transcatheter Valve Therapy procedures (TVT Registry).
Through the capture and reporting of trusted and reliable data, the National Cardiovascular Disease Registries (NCDR) helps participants measure, benchmark and improve cardiovascular care. Learn more about the NCDR data registries.
Our participation in the NCDR registries helps us identify new areas for quality improvement and provides a public resource for patients to view our performance.
To see our NCDR measure data, please visit the American College of Cardiology CardioSmart website.
Cardiac Surgery
Your doctor may suggest heart surgery if other treatments haven’t been effective or aren’t good options for your condition. Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), also known as bypass surgery, is the most common type of heart surgery. In this procedure, a surgeon uses a healthy vein to divert blood flow around blocked arteries.
Effective Cardiac Surgery Care
The Mount Auburn Hospital division of Cardiac Surgery participates in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Adult Cardiothoracic Database as an initiative for patient safety among cardiothoracic surgeons.
Our participation in the database helps us identify new areas for quality improvement and provides a public resource for patients to view our performance. To see our measure data, please visit the STS Public Reporting website for Mount Auburn Hospital.
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