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 St.
John's Mercy Heart Hospital
Special Designations
The Chest
Pain Evaluation Unit (CPEU) in the St. John's Mercy Heart Hospital is
one of only four chest pain centers in the St.
Louis
area to be accredited by the Society
of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC). The SCPC is a
professional society dedicated to patient advocacy and focusing on
ischemic heart disease.
Accomplishments
- Opened the region’s first Heart Hospital on June 27, 2006 – a
nine-level, 340,000-square-foot facility featuring:
- 96 private patient rooms with accommodations for family members
- Nine diagnostic and procedure laboratories
- Five operating rooms
- On-site physician offices
- Integrated emergency department facilities
- Chest pain evaluation unit accredited by the Society of Chest Pain Centers
- Specialized, process-focused nursing care
- Comprehensive inpatient and outpatient cardiovascular diagnostic services
- Customized, evidence-based care pathways
- Comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation services
- Educational resources, wellness programs and nutritional services
- Clinical trials
- Code Heart Attack – The cardiovascular team at St.
John’s Mercy has implemented a new, life-saving program called Code
Heart Attack. It incorporates a team of co-workers from the Emergency Department
(ED), the cardiac catheterization lab, the Performance Optimization department
and rapid-response nurses. When a patient presents with heart attack symptoms,
the Code Heart Attack pager system is activated. The goal is to take no more
than 90 minutes from the patient's arrival until they receive heart-saving
interventions in our cardiac catheterization lab. This goal exceeds the JCAHO
requirement of 120 minutes or less. This innovative system has benefited
numerous cardiac patients at St. John's Mercy.
- Rapid Response
System – In July 2005, St. John's Mercy established the
rapid access line (RAL), a service for referring physicians that
connects them with
immediate access to cardiovascular services at the St. John’s Mercy
Heart Hospital. The RAL is staffed 24 hours a day by experienced cardiovascular
nurses who
assist
with referrals, triage, transfers, admissions and follow up. Referring physicians
may contact the RAL by calling 1-877-9-HRT-DRS.
- Patient
Heart Line – Patients who need information
about heart services, the new St. John's Mercy Heart Hospital, or assistance
with finding a cardiovascular physician, may do so free of charge by calling 1-866-78-HEART. Our
patient heart line is staffed by referral specialists and nurses who work
one-on-one with patients to address their information needs. For patients
who need a physician, we provide the names of several physicians (based on
individual requirements), as well as their qualifications and background
information.
- Quality Measures – In
two critical areas of heart care – heart attack and heart failure – St. John’s
Mercy met or exceeded Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
quality measures for best practices in the treatment of patients with these
conditions. (From
data reported for discharges January to June 2005.)
Visit the Heart
Hospital home page.
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