On-Demand Chest Pain Center Certification Webinars
Key aspects of Chest Pain Center Certification 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.
Impacts of Process Improvement on a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) participating in Chest Pain Center (CPC) Certification
Presenter:
- Samantha Williams, BSHAM, RRT, AE-C, Chest Pain Center Coordinator, LSSGB West Feliciana Hospital (WFH), St. Francisville, LA
Guest:
- Tracey Blevins, MBS-HM, BSN, RN, AACC, Accreditation Clinical Product Manager at American College of Cardiology (ACC) Accreditation Services
What's Covered: A review from WFH on their challenges as a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) in managing Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) patients, their journey through the Certification process, process improvement assessments, and metrics demonstrating overall improvements.
Learning objectives include:
- Provide a brief overview of WFH as a CAH
- Explain the role of a CAH in cardiac patient care
- Highlight the impact on quality metrics by participating with ACC Accreditation Services CPC Certification program
- Review successful strategies and best practices implemented to achieve performance improvement
- Provide data on the progress made toward achieving the established targets and the impact on patient care
- Highlight the added benefits of collaborative efforts with Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and community education
Impacts of Process Improvement on FreeStanding Emergency Departments (FSED) participating in Chest Pain Center (CPC) Certification
Presenters:
- Jessica Holsinger, BSN, RN, Chest Pain Center Co-Coordinator, ER at Anna, TX and ER at Sherman, TX
- April Daniel, BSN, RN, Chest Pain Center Co-Coordinator, ER at Anna, TX and ER at Sherman, TX
Guest:
- Tracey Blevins, MBS-HM, BSN, RN, AACC, Accreditation Clinical Product Manager at American College of Cardiology (ACC) Accreditation Services
What's Covered: A review of the challenges from two FSED in managing Door-In-Door-Out (DIDO) patients, their journey through the Certification process, process improvement assessments, and metrics demonstrating overall improvements.
Learning objectives include:
- Provide a brief overview of the FSED in this community
- Explain the role of a FSED in cardiac patient care
- Highlight the impact on quality metrics by participating with ACC Accreditation Services CPC Certification program
- Review successful strategies and best practices implemented to achieve performance improvement in DIDO
- Provide data on the progress made toward achieving the established targets and the impact on patient care
- Discuss improvements in utilizing the Risk Stratification model using the HEART Score and identifying signs and symptoms (S/S)
CPC Certification NCDR Chest – Pain MI Registry Introduction
Presenter: Nicole Roman, BSN, RN – Accreditation Review Specialist
What's Covered: This presentation introduces the facilities interested in CPC Certification to the world of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR®) Chest Pain - MI Registry™ data abstraction.
Learning objectives include navigating the online registry, the ease of abstracting patients using the Basic Data Set (BDS), how to drill down into dashboard metrics, and locating key resources.
Introduction to Chest Pain Center Certification
Presenter: Keri Morris, MBA-HM, BSN, RN, AACC, Clinical Product Manager for Chest Pain Center Accreditation
What's Covered: This presentation provides a high level overview of the challenges to both Critical Access Hospitals and FreeStanding EDs, value of the ACC’s Chest Pain Center Certification, and Essential Component requirements. Also highlighted is the commitment to partnership with pairing your facility with an Accreditation Review Specialist to walk the journey of certification, offering a yearly payment model, and providing a wealth of resources.
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 clincial envirnoment. 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
