Congratulations Princeton Baptist Medical Center!!
A big congratulations goes to Princeton Baptist Medical Center for achieving Heart Failure Accrediation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC)!
When every second counts, we in the western portion of Jefferson County are lucky to be served by Princeton. Princeton was the first and ONLY center to become accredited in 2009 and is the FIRST hospital to achieve Heart Failure accreditation. Accrediatation demonstrates Princeton's commitment to the increasing number of heart failure patients admitted to the area's emergency rooms.
Achieving this accreditation was no easy feat! It required Princeton BMC to engage in rigorous reevaluation and refinement of its cardiac care processes. This was required in order to integrate the healthcare industry's most successful practices and newest paradigms into Princeton's processes for the care of heart failure patients.
“Princeton’s Heart Failure Accreditation enhances the quality of care for our heart failure patients,” said Ann McEntire, RN, nursing director, Princeton Cardiovascular Services. “Heart Failure remains a large segment of our patient population and we want to provide the best standard of care upon admission and upon discharge to help our patients avoid readmissions.”
“Our Heart Failure Accreditation coupled with our Chest Pain Center Accreditation sets us apart,” said McEntire. “By going through the accreditation process we prove to the community that we desire to go above and beyond and are committed to adhering to a higher standard of care.”
About Princeton Baptist Medical Center: Princeton is a full service tertiary hospital with approximately 1400 employees providing a wide range of services including such specialties as invasive and non-invasive cardiac services, diagnostic imaging, obstetrics, cancer treatment, wound care, hyperbaric medicine, bariatric surgery, pulmonary medicine, neurosurgery and orthopedics. Opened in 1922, Princeton BaptistMedical Center is the flagship hospital of the Baptist Health System and has served the community for 90 years.
