On-Demand Chest Pain Center Accreditation Webinars
Key aspects of Chest Pain Center Accreditation and related topics are shared in the webinars that our Chest Pain Center (CPC) Clinical Product Manager has presented and are now available as on-demand recordings. Guest physicians or other clinical professionals have often served as co-presenters on these topical webinars.
Presenter: Tracey Blevins, MBA-HM, BSN, RN, AACC, Clinical Product Manager for Chest Pain Center Accreditation
What's Covered: This presentation introduces the model updates associated with ACC's Chest Pain Center Accreditation. Learning objectives include: A brief summary of Essential Components; designation requirements; and summary of features for reaccrediting facilities. An explanation of the yearly payment model and examples of the Return on Investment (ROI) Calculators are also provided.
Our Participants Share Their Perspectives
In this very brief YouTube video, Dr. Zachary Jepson discusses how Chest Pain Center Accreditation with Primary PCI helped the medical professionals associated with Salina Regional Health Center better serve their Kansas community.
Presenter: Phillip Levy, MD, MPH, FACC, Wayne State University, Detroit
What's Covered: In this presentation, Dr. Levy discusses key management strategies of chest pain for acute versus non-acute conditions. Through comprehensive assessment and application of latest science, participants will learn to incorporate appropriate care pathways that optimize treatment and outcomes.
Presenters: Susan McGowan, Chest Pain Program Coordinator, Texoma Medical Center
Moderator: Keri Morris, Accreditation Clinical Product Manager, American College of Cardiology
What's Covered: In this presentation the Chest Pain Program Coordinator for Texoma Medical Center shares her chest pain program coordinator experience and how the accreditation program strenghthened the culture of process improvement and quality patient care at Texoma MC.
Note: This is a recording of a 2020 ACC Quality Summit presentation
Presenters: Kimberly Crout, Cardiovascular Quality RN and Chest Pain Center Coordinator, and Mouhamad Abdallah, MD, Medical Director Chest Pain Center and Cardiac Cath Lab, Premier Health/Atrium Medical Center
What's Covered: This presentation reveals how Premier Health/Atrium Medical Center implemented High Sensitivity Troponin and the role troponin plays in the contemporary clinical environment.
Note: This is a recording of a 2020 ACC Quality Summit presentation.
What's Covered: This webinar identifies advantageous strategies for transitioning Acute Coronary Syndrome patients out of the hospital and how to optimize post-discharge care. Representatives from Piedmont Newnan Hospital discuss how they built a Medication Delivery Program to: ensure patient medication reconciliation at discharge, eliminate barriers to obtaining medications for use at home, enhance understanding of prescribed medication, and to improve the patient's discharge experience, while anecdotally reducing hospital readmissions.
What's Covered: This webinar presents the importance of building and fostering relationships with EMS and partner referral or receiving centers is essential to the establishment of collaborative STEMI care networks
- How EMS pre-hospital activation impacts STEMI care and outcomes
- How important it is to develop solid processes at referral centers that ensure appropriate STEMI care by either lytic therapy or activation of the Cardiac Cath Lab team at the receiving center and transfer of the patient for Primary PCI
- How to "hardwire" processes for patients who self-present with STEMI
Presenter:
Charyl T. Asuncion, MSN, AGPCNP-C, PCCN, AACC, Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center (JFKUMC)
Guests:
Tracey Blevins and Robert Bunney, Accreditation Clinical Product Manager at American College of Cardiology (ACC) Accreditation Services
What's Covered: A review from JFKUMC on their challenges with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Observation, their process improvement changes and data analysis demonstrating an annual Observation Cost Savings of $728,486 with a decrease in Observation Length-of-Stay (LOS).
Learning objectives include:
- Provide a brief overview of the Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) led closed observation unit and its role in cardiac patient care
- Showcase the role of APPs in the closed observation unit and their impact on quality metrics
- Highlight successful strategies and best practices that have been implemented to achieve performance improvement
- Provide data on the progress made toward achieving the established targets and the impact on patient care and LOS
- Provide data on the impact of LOS reduction to financial Return on Investment (ROI)