In Recognition of Quaity Care
The delivery of quality health care is a continual process of improvement, of adopting best practices, measuring and reporting. Our entire team of physicians, nurses, technologists and staff strive to provide the very best care for our patients. These recent awards confirm that we’re on the right path and attest to the excellent care provided.
American Heart Association Achievement Award for Cardiac Care
Medicare Striving for Excellence Quality Achievement Award
Top Value for Hospital Dollar
Kapi'olani Medical Center at Pali Momi Receives American Heart Association Achievement Award For Cardiac Care
For the second year in a row, Kapi‘olani Medical Center at Pali Momi received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines–Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) Gold Award for Sustained Performance. The award recognizes Kapi‘olani’s commitment to quality and success for 24 consecutive months or more in implementing a higher standard of cardiac care that effectively improves treatment of patients hospitalized with coronary artery disease. Kapi‘olani was one of only 53 facilities nationally to meet these high standards.
Why is Get With the Guidelines Program important for patients?
Projections have shown that implementation of cardiovascular disease secondary prevention guidelines nationwide could result in saving more than 80,000 lives each year.
According to the American Heart Association, more than 450,000 people suffer recurrent heart attacks each year. Statistics also show that within one year of an attack, 25 percent of men and 38 percent of women will die. Within six years after a heart attack, about 22 percent of men and 46 percent of women will be disabled with heart failure.
To receive the award, Kapi‘olani consistently met the American Heart Association’s GWTG–CAD program requirements. Under the program, patients are started on aggressive risk reduction therapies such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, aspirin, ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers in the hospital and receive smoking cessation and weight management counseling and referrals for cardiac rehabilitation before they are discharged.
"The American Heart Association applauds Kapi‘olani for its success in implementing the appropriate standards of care and protocols to reduce the number of recurrent events in coronary patients," said Dr. Gray Ellrodt, M.D., the American Heart Association volunteer chairman for Get With The Guidelines. "Kapi‘olani is well above the national average in terms of implementing these life-saving treatments."
The American Heart Association’s Get With The GuidelinesSM program is being implemented in hospitals around the country. For more information on Get With The Guidelines, visit americanheart.org/getwiththeguidelines.
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Medicare’s Quality Improvement Organization Recognizes Kapi‘olani Medical Center at Pali Momi
Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Hawaii (MPQHH) selected Kapi‘olani Medical Center at Pali Momi to receive its 2008 Striving for Excellence Quality Achievement Award. The honor was bestowed in recognition of the hospital’s work to improve care for patients with congestive heart failure, pneumonia and patients that have a heart attack. MPQHH is Medicare’s representative in Hawaii to address Quality Improvement, and is dedicated to ensuring that Medicare patients receive the best quality care. In assessing Hawaii hospitals, MPQHH follows a set of Appropriate Care Measures or what is recognized to be the best practice to treat congestive heart failure, pneumonia and heart attacks. MPQHH measures whether patients received the set of 10 core elements for each condition. Pali Momi was honored for adherence to these standards.
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Top Value for Hospital Dollar
A national study places Kapi‘olani Medical Center at Pali Momi among the top values for your hospital dollar based on its scores for:
Quality
Efficiency
Affordability
Kapi‘olani Medical Center at Pali Momi ranks among the best general acute care hospitals in the U.S. in terms of quality, efficiency and affordability, according to Data Advantage LLC, a Mainland healthcare information company.Data Advantage developed a value index based on an increasing amount of publicly available information about the performance of hospitals and doctors. It applied the index to more than 1,500 general acute care hospitals in the 100 largest markets in the country with populations larger than 600,000. Within these markets the study identified about 370 general care facilities as providing the best value for one’s hospital dollar. Kapi‘olani Medical Center at Pali Momi was one of only two hospitals named in Hawaii. It’s sister hospital, Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children, wasn’t studied because of its emphasis on women’s and children’s care.
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