CRMC Gets Heart Attack Care Award

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) has received the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) Platinum Performance Achievement award for providing a high level of care and treatment to heart attack patients.

CRMC is one of only 319 hospitals nationwide to receive this honor for 2015.

To receive the award, CRMC consistently followed the treatment guidelines in the ACTION Registry for eight consecutive quarters and met a performance standard of 90 percent for specific quality performance measures. The ACTION Registry provides three levels of recognition: platinum, gold and silver.

“This award recognizes our commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients,” said cardiologist Muhammad Khan, M.D., Medical Director of Cardiovascular Care at CRMC. “It signifies that Cheyenne Regional Medical Center has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the registry’s guidelines and recommendations.”

The ACTION Registry is a program that focuses on the treatment of patients having a heart attack.

“This award is tangible evidence of all the hard work and commitment to quality improvement that’s been made by our cardiovascular team and our emergency department,” said Craig Luzinski, CRMC’s Vice President of Performance Optimization. “This award is also important for our community because it shows that Cheyenne Regional Medical Center is focused on sustaining optimal care for heart attack patients over the long term.”

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 700,000 Americans suffer a heart attack each year. A heart attack occurs when a blood clot in a coronary artery partially or completely blocks blood flow to the heart.

“The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association commend Cheyenne Regional Medical Center for its success in implementing standards of care and protocols,” said James Jollis, MD, FACC, ACTION Registry-GWTG Chair and Professor of Medicine and Radiology at Duke University Hospital.