HOSPITAL HEADLINES
Boone Hospital Center Recognized As No. 1 Hospital In Mid-Missouri By U.S. News & World Report For Sixth Year In A Row
Boone Hospital Center Receives Major Awards From The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association For the sixth year in a row, Boone Hospital Center was the top-ranked hospital in midMissouri by U.S. News & World Report. It also ranked #4 in the state of Missouri, up one position from last year. Boone Hospital Center was rated High Performing in orthopedics and seven procedures or conditions: aortic valve surgery, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), colon cancer surgery, heart bypass surgery, heart failure treatment, hip replacement surgery, and knee replacement surgery. For the 2020-21 ratings, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 medical centers nationwide in 10 procedures and conditions. Fewer than a third of all hospitals received any high-performing rating, and only 37 earned this rating in all 10 Procedures and Conditions. The state and metro-area rankings recognize hospitals that received high-performing ratings across multiple areas of care. The U.S. News Best Hospitals methodologies in most areas of care are based largely on objective measures such as risk-adjusted survival and discharge-to-home rates, volume, and quality of nursing, among other care-related indicators. Best Hospitals was produced by U.S. News with RTI International, a leading research organization based in Research Triangle Park, NC. For more information visit: health.usnews. com/best-hospitals/rankings
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BOONE HOSPITAL CENTER
Fall 2020
Boone Hospital has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, Target: Stroke Elite Honor Roll Award, Mission: Lifeline® Gold Plus Receiving Quality Achievement Award, and the Mission: Lifeline® NSTEMI Gold Quality Achievement Award. The Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. Boone Hospital additionally received the Association’s Target: Stroke Elite Honor Roll Award. To qualify for this recognition, hospitals must meet quality measures developed to reduce the time between the patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-buster tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke. “Boone Hospital Stroke Program’s mission is to provide the highest standard of care for stroke patients throughout central Missouri. This recognition from the American Heart Association for the second year in a row speaks to the dedication of our staff to achieve this goal. I could not be more proud of the collaborative efforts from this multidisciplinary team in order to improve our patients’ outcomes, and it is nice that they have earned this recognition for their hard work,” says Boone Hospital Center Stroke Program Coordinator, Chris Benne, BSN, RN, CEN. Boone Hospital received the Mission: Lifeline® Gold Plus Receiving Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association for the treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks. Boone Hospital also received the Mission: Lifeline® NSTEMI Gold Quality Achievement. It earned the award by meeting specific criteria and standards of performance for the quick and appropriate treatment of NSTEMI heart attack patients by providing emergency procedures to re-establish blood flow to blocked arteries when needed.
