| This certification recognizes hospitals that meet standards to support better outcomes for patients with heart failure during hospital stays, in transition from the hospital to home and during outpatient care.
The Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest independent healthcare evaluation body, and the American Heart Association developed the certification.
To be eligible, the hospital must meet national standards, including: - Design and operation of a heart failure-focused program
- Staffing by qualified medical professionals
- Individualized care to meet heart failure patients’ needs
- Patient involvement in their care
- Coordination of patient’s follow up care after leaving the hospital
- Collection of hospital’s heart failure-treatment performance data
- Use of data to assess and continually improve quality of care for heart failure patients
- Participation in the American Heart Association’s heart failure quality improvement program at an award-winning level of performance
- Outpatient treatment as well as support for the transition from the hospital to home
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