What is The Methodist Hospital doing to continuously improve performance?
• The Methodist Hospital has provided education about quality measures to physicians and continues to share data to increase awareness of performance in monthly cardiology quality meetings. • Methodist has unit-based Nurse Practitioners to help comply with quality measures. • Methodist uses physician admission order sets and cardiology discharge progress notes to provide prompts to assist in compliance with quality measures. • Methodist continues to utilize a Nurse Heart Attack Patient Educator to provide quality information to all unit-based Nurse Practitioners. • Methodist provides one-on-one education to patients prior to discharge. • Heart attack patients are identified during interdisciplinary rounds during which their case is assessed thoroughly and they are given the most appropriate pharmacological therapy. • Methodist has organized a task force to work with the Emergency Department, Cardiac Catheterization Lab, and Coronary Care Unit to ensure that patients receive Percutaneou
