Six Hackensack Meridian Health Hospitals Among Nations Top Performing for Treatment of Heart Attack Patients

What You Need To Know

• Five Hackensack Meridian medical centers received the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) NCDR Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award and another received the Silver Performance Achievement Award for 2023.
• Only 262 hospitals nationwide received this honor, which recognizes the medical centers’ commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies they have reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the ACC/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.

Platinum Performance Achievement Award recipients include:

• Jersey Shore University Medical Center
• JFK University Medical Center
• Riverview Medical Center
• Ocean University Medical Center
• Bayshore Medical Center
• Southern Ocean Medical Center (Silver Performance Achievement Award)

In receiving the Silver Performance Achievement Award, Southern Ocean Medical Center demonstrated sustained achievement in the Registry for four consecutive quarters during 2022 and performed with distinction in specific performance measures. Southern Ocean joins just 82 hospitals across the country in receiving this honor. Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry 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.