West Tennessee Heart & Vascular Center Earns Award
The West Tennessee Heart & Vascular Center at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital has achieved the highest award offered by the American College of Cardiology for high-risk heart attack patient treatment.
The ACTION Registry-GWTG Platinum Performance Achievement Award was bestowed only to those hospitals that maintained a performance measure score of 90 percent or better in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) patients for eight consecutive quarters, ending in the last quarter of 2013.
This is the third major quality recognition West Tennessee Heart & Vascular Center has received this year. Earlier the hospital received national recognition for its echocardiography services and won reaffirmation for the highest level of accreditation from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care.
West Tennessee Heart & Vascular Center’s compliance with standards outlined by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association as well as strategies for streamlined processes of transferring patients from nearby facilities were factors that boosted the platinum score the hospital received.
ACTION Registry–GWTG is a partnership between the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association with partnering support from the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. ACTION Registry-GWTG empowers health care provider teams to consistently treat heart attack patients according to the most current, science-based guidelines and establishes a national standard for understanding and improving the quality, safety and outcomes of care provided for patients with coronary artery disease, specifically high-risk heart attack patients.
West Tennessee Healthcare Receives Healthier Tennessee Workplace Award
The Governor’s Foundation for Health and Wellness has named 73 businesses and institutions across the state including West Tennessee Healthcare, as Healthier Tennessee Workplaces. This new program recognizes organizations that encourage and enable employees to live a healthy lifestyle both at work and at home.
Healthier Tennessee Workplaces have certified that they have a wellness program in place that does the following: encourages and enables physical activity in the workplace; offers healthy eating options at work; provides a tobacco-free environment and helps with tobacco cessation; encourages and enables employees to monitor their own health through regular health risk assessments, screenings or check-ups; rewards and recognizes employees for participating in health and wellness activities and achieving health improvements.
Places of employment can apply at any time throughout the year. The designation is granted for one full year with an opportunity to renew on an annual basis. Those organizations interested in becoming a Healthier Tennessee Workplace should apply at www.healthiertn.com/workplace .
West Tennessee Gastro Welcomes Sufiyan H. Chaudhry, MDGastroenterologist Sufiyan H. Chaudhry, MD, has joined the West Tennessee Gastro staff in Jackson. Dr. Chaudhry was formerly a consultant gastroenterologist with the University of Tennessee Medical Group in Memphis. He served as staff gastroenterologist at Methodist University Hospital, and as an advanced procedures consultant for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and luminal stenting at Regional Medical Center and Methodist University Hospital Memphis. He also served as assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Medicine. He is specially trained in various advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures, including endoscopy, colonoscopy, advanced ERCP, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, endoscopic dilation, endoscopic luminal stents, esophageal motility, and capsule endoscopy. He has also been treating patients with complicated inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Dr. Chaudhry completed his Gastroenterology and Hepatology fellowship training at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis with 1 year dedicated for ERCP training. He completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. He received his medical degree from King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan.He has received board certification in gastroenterology and internal medicine. He is a member of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Gastroenterology Association.Baptist Memphis Wins Pharmacy AwardThe Department of Pharmacy at Baptist Memorial Hospital Memphis was recently presented with the Innovative Health-System Pharmacy Practice Award by the Tennessee Society of Health-System Pharmacists.The award is given annually to a pharmacy department staff in a hospital with more than 100 beds in recognition of efforts which advanced the level of pharmacy services within the past two years.By making this move pharmacists in the flagship hospital are more visible, more involved and are a more immediate service to nurses and ancillary staff. The inpatient staff assists with providing services to the ambulatory care center, stem cell center, cardiac services as well as offsite physician practices.
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