Get With The Guidelines® - Heart Failure

A program designed to improve the management and outcomes of patients with heart failure.
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Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure

Get With The Guidelines® - Heart Failure helps hospitals align with evidence-based care, streamline certifications and meet data requirements. With expert support and collaboration across health care settings and real-time feedback, the program drives better outcomes for patients and hospitals.


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A Proven Program

A Proven Program

Get With The Guidelines® - Heart Failure helps hospitals align with evidence-based care, streamline certifications and meet data requirements. With expert support and collaboration across health care settings and real-time feedback, the program drives better outcomes for patients and hospitals.

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Achieving Organization Goals

Heart failure patients face four times higher 2-year costs and frequent 30-day readmissions. The Get With The Guidelines® - Heart Failure Program supports clinicians by providing tools, guidelines, and resources to improve process of care measures in key areas such as timely medical treatment, optimal management, readmission prevention, ultimately improving outcomes and supporting data-driven decision making.
Evaluate equitable care and Improve access for all, Create system-wide impact, Use data to support change
  • Evaluate equitable care and improve access for all
  • Create system-wide impact
  • Use data to support change
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Evaluate current performance, Improve patient outcomes, Reduce unnecessary hospital stays, Quickly assess & identify life-threatening conditions, Provide patient-centered care
  • Evaluate current performance
  • Improve patient outcomes
  • Reduce readmissions
  • Provide patient-centered care
20 Years in Review
Improving HF Quality of Care Over the First 20 years
Facilitate certification, Improve efficiencies, Gain competitive edge, Expand team experience, Support staff & build morale
  • Facilitate certification
  • Improve efficiencies
  • Gain competitive edge
  • Expand team experience
  • Support staff & build morale
Hospital/Facility Certification
Professional Certification

Supporting Hospital Teams

"We started at 25% readmissions, now we’re down to 16%-- We no longer have to pay any penalties!”
- Clinical Nurse Specialist, Heart & Vascular Services

"Data helps us move things, like pushing more virtual visits. If we didn’t have the registry data, we would not be able to make the case.”
- Heart Failure Team Lead

“Our competition is across the whole country. Every administration is doing marketing; no one wants to lag behind. That creates a lot of competition. The certifications, gold plus award, I think it’s been a help for us. ”
- Chief Nursing Officer

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Supporting Hospital Teams

Where Data Meets Direction

Get With The Guidelines programs blend powerful registry functionality with personalized, expert support from the American Heart Association’s Quality Consultants. Participants of the program get access to our team and the tools to turn patient data into improved outcomes.
Expert Consultation & Support

Expert Consultation & Support

Get personalized support from an assigned American Heart Association consultant. This expert guidance helps hospitals streamline processes, optimize outcomes, and implement best practices with tailored strategies and ongoing assistance. 

Additionally, enrolled hospitals have access to exclusive learning, model sharing and updates through Get With The Guidelines.

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Real-Time Patient Registry

Real-Time Reporting

The Get With The Guidelines® – Heart Failure registry supports CMS-linked tracking of outcomes like follow-up, readmissions, and mortality. It offers point-of-care tools, real-time patient-level reporting and physician performance tracking. Key features include instant data validation, risk-adjusted benchmarking, compatibility and robust data security for streamlined analysis and reporting.

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Quality Improvement Resources

Get access to a full suite of quality improvement resources, including expert-led webinars, podcasts, workshops, white papers, office hours, model sharing from top-performing sites and patient resources.

These tools help clinical teams stay current, solve challenges and continuously improve heart failure care while equipping patients with tools for improvement and education.

Get on Track White Paper

Patient Heart Failure Resources

Webinars
Workshops & Webinars
Educational Podcasts

Award Recognition & Criteria

Active participating hospitals are eligible for public recognition, showcasing their commitment to quality care.  Award recipients are honored at national events and on heart.org. Awarded hospitals receive a customizable promotion toolkit to celebrate their achievement.

Recognition Criteria
Get With The Guidelines Media Kit
Research & Publication Opportunities

Research & Publication Opportunities

With over 3 million patient records, the registry has been vital in tracking heart failure trends and outcomes. Nearly 180 published studies, about half in high-impact journals, now inform clinical practice. Use existing research or contribute your own.

Quality Research & Publications
National Research Opportunities
Nurse-Led Research
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Quality News You Can Use eNewsletters

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Cardiac Certifications

In collaboration with Joint Commission, the American Heart Association® and American Stroke Association® offer a wide range of cardiac focused certifications accessible to hospitals across the nation.

Cardiac Certification Professional Certification