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Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) has once again been named to an elite group of U.S. hospitals that are producing the best clinical outcomes for cardiovascular care, and which treat heart patients in less time and at a lower cost, according to a study just released by the health care arm of Thomson Reuters, an international business intelligence and media company. Read the complete press release.
The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association recognized DHMC's Cerebrovascular & Stroke Program for achieving at least one year of 85 percent or higher adherence to all Get With The Guidelines℠ program quality indicators to improve quality of patient care and outcomes. Read more about this award.
The American Pain Society has announced that Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Richard Barrett Pain Management Center is one of only six recipients nationwide of the organization’s second annual Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management Awards, recognizing the nation’s outstanding pain-care centers. Read the complete press release.
The Child Advocacy Center (CAC) of Grafton and Sullivan Counties at DHMC was recently awarded accreditation from the National Children's Alliance (NCA). The CAC of Grafton and Sullivan Counties ensures that a multidisciplinary approach is utilized in cases of suspected child abuse with a goal of reducing the trauma to children and families and providing justice and healing. Accreditation assures that the center is providing best practice in the investigation, prosecution and treatment of suspected child abuse cases.
The Richard Barrett Pain Management Center at DHMC was one of 14 pain management centers from across the country recognized in April, 2007 for excellence by the American Pain Society (APS) as part of its first-ever Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management Awards. The Center received an honorable mention for its efforts to provide innovative, patient-centered, multidisciplinary care, to improve pain management systems of care, and to improve the quality of pain management across the continuum of care. More about this award.
DHMC's Nurse Midwife Service received the "With Women, for a Lifetime Gold Commendation" award from the American College of Nurse Midwives in 2006. The award recognizes midwifery services in the US that have provided innovative and compassionate care to families, expanded access to women's health care, educated midwifery students, and put the heart of midwifery into practice. The Gold Commendation is awarded to services that have maintained this standard for more than 20 years.
The nurses of the Adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU) DHMC have received the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence. This designation by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) specifically recognizes the nation's top hospital critical care nursing teams. DHMC's ICU was one of only 12 hospitals to receive the award for 2005-2006.
The specialty ALS Center at DHMC was certified as an ALS Center of Excellence by the national ALS Association (ALSA.) in December, 2005. ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a devastating and crippling illness, requiring a complicated regimen of care. The ALS Center, headed by Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, Associate Chief for Neurology at DHMC and professor of neurology at Dartmouth Medical School, is the 24th center and the fourth this year to be certified by ALSA, the nation's pre-eminent leader in the fight against ALS. The ALSA Center program sets the national standard for clinical care for people living with ALS and their family members.