Representatives from Loma Linda University Medical Center and Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital accepted the 2018 Get With The Guidelines® — Resuscitation Silver Awards from the American Heart Association on Nov. 15. The presentation was held at Children’s Hospital, where a representative from the American Heart Association presented the awards.
Both the Medical Center and Children’s Hospital received the silver awards in July for their high-quality treatment of patients who suffer cardiac arrests in the hospital. The American Heart Association recognizes hospitals based on their protocols for patient safety, medical emergency team response, effective and timely resuscitation (CPR) and post-resuscitation care.
Loma Linda University Medical Center received the award for meeting specific measures in treating adult patients who suffer in-hospital cardiac arrests in the hospital, and Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital received three awards for meeting specific measures in treating pediatric, neonate/infant and newly born patients.
Get With The Guidelines®— Resuscitation builds on the work of the American Heart Association’s National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, originally launched in 1999. The registry has collected in-hospital cardiac arrest data from more than 500 hospitals. Data from the registry and the quality program give participating hospitals feedback on their resuscitation practice and patient outcomes. The data also help improve research-based guidelines for in-hospital resuscitation.
Please watch the video below to see more about the event.