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Boone Health Receives Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award
Boone Health has received the American Heart Association’s Get With e Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Stroke Quality Achievement Award for their commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines.
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Each year, program participants apply for the award recognition by demonstrating how their organization has committed to providing quality care for stroke patients. In addition to following treatment guidelines, participants also provide education to patients to help them manage their health and rehabilitation once at home.
Boone Health also received the Association’s Target: StrokeSM Honor Roll Elite 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 clotbuster tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke.
Boone Health’s Bariatric Program has been accredited as a designation level center by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program. e MBSAQIP Standards, Optimal Resources for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, ensure that metabolic and bariatric patients receive multidisciplinary medical care, which improves patient outcomes and long-term success. MBSAQIP-accredited centers o er preoperative and postoperative care designed speci cally for patients with obesity.
To earn MBSAQIP accreditation, Boone met essential criteria for sta ng, training, facility infrastructure, and patient care pathways, ensuring its ability to support patients with obesity.
Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program Certifi ed by Industry Leader
Boone Health is proud to announce the certi cation of its cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation program by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. is certi cation is a recognition of Boone Health’s commitment to improving the quality of life of patients by enhancing standards of care.
AACVPR-certi ed programs are leaders in the cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation eld because they o er the most advanced practices available and have proven track records of high quality patient care. AACVPR program certi cation is valid for three years.
Boone Hospital Center Recognized As No. 1 Hospital In Mid-Missouri For Sixth Year In A Row
For the sixth year in a row, Boone Hospital Center was ranked the No. 1 hospital in Mid-Missouri by U.S. News & World Report. It also ranked No. 7 in the state of Missouri. e 2021-2022 U.S. News Best Hospitals ranked hospitals in the U.S. in 15 adult specialties, as well as by state, metro, and regional areas for their work in 17 more widely performed procedures and conditions. Of the nearly 5,000 hospitals analyzed and 30,000 physicians surveyed, only 175 hospitals ranked in at least one of the specialties.
Boone Hospital Center was rated high performing in the specialty of orthopedics and in the following procedures and conditions: heart failure, heart bypass surgery, heart attack, colon cancer surgery, kidney failure, stroke, knee replacement, hip replacement, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. e rankings have been published on the U.S. News website’s health section at usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/mo/central-missouri.
A New Look for the Boone Mobile Health Unit
Boone Health’s Mobile Health Unit has recently received a fresh update with a new design. Purchased by the Board of Directors and the Boone Hospital Foundation, our Mobile Health Unit lets Boone healthcare professionals bring free screenings to communities across our service area. Keep your eyes open for upcoming dates – we will resume our community screenings as soon as it’s safe to do so!
Lab Services Open in Mexico
On August 18, 2021, we o cially cut the ribbon on the new Lab Services location in Mexico, MO. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Boone Health Laboratory Services was also presented with a Progress Award by the Mexico Chamber of Commerce.
Located at the Boone Health Medical Group primary care clinic in Mexico, the new site makes it more convenient to get lab tests done. Both services are located at 1051 Old Farm Road in Mexico. Lab Services is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday- ursday and 8 a.m. to noon on Friday. For other Boone Health Lab Services sites, visit boone.health/lab
