Now There Are Six: Banner Health adds to their Accredited Heart Failure Centers and Pioneering Accredited Heart Failure Institutes®

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Dec 09, 2013, 08:30 ET

PHOENIX, Dec. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium announced that Banner Baywood and Banner Del E. Webb medical centers have been named Accredited Heart Failure Centers. This continues a unique quality initiative that began in 2009 when Banner Heart Hospital became the first Accredited Heart Failure Institute^® in Arizona.

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Banner Baywood Medical Center - Top Row Left: Erin Leuthold BSN, RN; Kim Despres DHA, RN; Larry Spratling, MD; Tamara Pruett, RN, CPHM, IQCI; Kathleen T. Werner, PhD, RN-BC; Darlene Friedman, RN, MBA-HCM; Faith Merriam, MSN, RN; Samantha Welch, RN; Valerie Holsinger, BSN, RN - Bottom Row Left: Stacy Agersea, RN; Mark Starling, MD; Ruthie R. Mangino, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, NP-C; Kelly Bodnarchuk, MBA, BSN, RN; Jared Jones, PharmD, CACP (PRNewsFoto/The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium) (PRNewsFoto/HEALTHCARE ACCRED. COLLOQUIUM)

Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center - Front Row Left: Allen Gerace, BSN, RN; Mark Fargnoli (Colloquium VP of Member Services and lead reviewer); Dan Haber (Colloquium VP of Operations); Anthony Buchta, MBA, RN - Back Row Left: Pat Gorman, RN, MSN (IU Health Ball Memorial and site reviewer); Davidine Johnson, PharmD; Victoria Bulat, MSN, RN; Mark Bank, MS, CES; Deb Richards, MSN, RN; Christina Trifanoff, MSN, RN; Zach Miller, MHA, RN. (PRNewsFoto/The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium) (PRNewsFoto/HEALTHCARE ACCRED. COLLOQUIUM)

"As the only accredited Heart Failure Institute in Arizona, it is the obligation of Banner Heart Hospital to help all sister facilities within Banner Health achieve accreditation as Heart Failure Centers," said Mark Starling, MD, chief medical officer at Banner Heart Hospital. "This accreditation illustrates the commitment that Banner Health is making to provide outstanding care for patients with heart failure."

"Banner's long term commitment to developing a system-wide approach to heart failure demonstrates their leadership in healthcare," said Dr. Tony Joseph, Colloquium's president and CEO. "Hospital systems can learn much from how Banner is integrating heart failure care in their diverse hospitals."

With a long legacy of putting patient needs first, Banner Health represents excellence in clinical care, education, and research. This dovetails with the Colloquium's continuum of care model, focusing on care within the community and hospital by expert clinicians guided by current science.

"This achievement is a great example of the collaboration between Banner Baywood and Banner Heart," said Laura Robertson, CEO for Banner Baywood Medical Center and Banner Heart Hospital. "It demonstrates our commitment to providing excellent care for heart failure patients on this campus."

"The accreditation process has sharpened our focus across the continuum of care; from promoting awareness within the community, providing superior care and education during an acute stay, to returning to the community post discharge with a strategy to successfully manage heart failure," said Anthony Butcha, RN, a senior RN manager at Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center. "Becoming an Accredited Heart Failure Center demonstrates the commitment our entire staff makes to provide excellent care to our patients and the community we so proudly serve."

The reviewers conducted a detailed review of over a dozen areas of care within four Domains: Community, Hospital, Clinician, and Science.

The Colloquium is the first organization to develop an improvement science based approach to heart failure accreditation using a continuum of care model. It is the only organization that grants Institute and System accreditation for heart failure. Banner Health was just the second system in the national to achieve Heart Failure System Accreditation (October 2012).

About Banner Health

Headquartered in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the country's largest nonprofit health care systems. The system manages 24 acute-care hospitals, the Banner Health Network and Banner Medical Group, long-term care centers, outpatient surgery centers and an array of other services including family clinics, home care and hospice, and a nursing registry. For more information, visit www.BannerHealth.com.

About The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium

As a hospital membership organization, the Colloquium enjoys a wide range of member hospitals with a common shared passion: pre-eminence in caring for those with heart failure. Starting with the individual and using a relationship care model, member hospitals work together to identify what is important throughout the entire continuum of care. The Colloquium's approach to improvement includes traditional process improvement approaches but also embraces the cultural change needed to navigate uncertain times faced by today's leaders.

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The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium
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