Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain-MI Registry Silver Performance Achievement Award for 2019. The Columbus facility is one of only 86 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor.
The award recognizes Baptist Golden Triangle’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.
To receive the award, the hospital demonstrated sustained achievement in the chest pain – MI registry for four consecutive quarters and has performed at the top level of standards for specific performance measures such as door to EKG time, door to device time and post-operative medication and therapy compliance.
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