Elkhart General Hospital Designated as an Accredited Heart Failure Center by The Healthcare Colloquium

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare Colloquium, a Battelle company, announces that Elkhart General Hospital has achieved the designation of being named an Accredited Heart Failure Center.

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"The leadership team at Elkhart General Hospital did an amazing job coming together to demonstrate their broad capacity serving patients with heart failure," says James Stoodt, Senior Vice President, Member Development and Member Services of The Healthcare Colloquium, who presented during the in-depth onsite review.  "The Healthcare Colloquium is very committed to supporting Elkhart on its journey of continuous improvement."

"Elkhart's approach to managing and improving heart failure care is an outstanding example of constancy of purpose and relentless continual improvement," says David Wayne, lead reviewer from The Healthcare Colloquium and Temple University adjunct faculty member. "Their leadership team is extraordinary and their outstanding staff is competent, collaborative, and passionate about patient care."

The Healthcare Colloquium's unique heart failure accreditation process builds on the member hospital's prior improvement experience leading to initial heart failure accreditation. Member hospitals work within four established domains of heart failure: Community, Hospital, Clinicians, and Science using The Healthcare Colloquium's continuum of care model that leads to:

• An integration of heart failure care, from antecedents to early diagnosis and advanced care
• Streamlined processes across the entire continuum of care beginning in the community
• Enabling individuals to participate in their own care with more independence and less hospitalization
• Collaboration with other Colloquium member hospitals across the country

"Achieving certification from The Healthcare Colloquium is a tremendous accomplishment for Elkhart General Hospital and our staff," says Greg Losasso, President of Elkhart General Hospital.  "We hold ourselves to the highest standards of care and the Colloquium provides a mechanism to validate our status.  The standards they set and the ability to benchmark and share best practices with others raise the level of care throughout our region.  This is a great partnership."

"Achieving certification from The Healthcare Colloquium is validation that Elkhart General Hospital provides high quality care based on evidence based best practices for our heart failure patients and their families," says Katherine Russell MSN, RN, Executive Director of Nursing for Elkhart General Hospital.  "The Healthcare Colloquium's certification structure allowed us a platform to visualize our current processes and access their best practices to improve and grow our program."

About Elkhart General Hospital

Elkhart General Hospital (www.egh.org) is a non-profit hospital and a Beacon Health System Care Partner located at 600 East Blvd, Elkhart, IN 46514. The full-service, 325-bed hospital is includes 300 physicians across 30 medical specialties that focus to continually improve the quality of care and provide comprehensive medical care to Elkhart and surrounding communities.

About The Healthcare Colloquium, a Battelle Company

As a hospital membership organization based in Columbus, Ohio, The Healthcare Colloquium, a Battelle Company, (http://colloquiumhealth.com) is comprised of a wide range of member hospitals with a common shared passion: pre-eminence in caring for those with critical illnesses. The Healthcare Colloquium provides an active forum and solutions for the exchange of practices and insights on topics ranging from quality improvement to data analytics and decision support.

Contact:
James J. Stoodt
Sr. VP Market Development & Member Services
The Healthcare Colloquium, Inc.
3040 Riverside Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43221
614.545.3800
Email

SOURCE The Healthcare Colloquium