Mother Frances Gets Award

TYLER – Mother Frances Hospital has received the American College of Cardiology Foundation’s NCDR ACTION Registry–GWTG Gold Performance Achievement Award for 2011 – one of only 167 hospitals nationwide to do so. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients, and signifies that the hospital has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.

“The time is right for Mother Frances to be focused on improving the quality of cardiovascular care by achieving ACTION Registry–GWTG standards. The number of acute myocardial infarction patients eligible for treatment is expected to grow over the next decade due to increasing incidence of heart disease and a large aging population,” said John McGreevy, senior vice president of Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics and CEO, Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital.