Taking Good Care of Your Heart

The Joint Commission, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other national organizations regularly collect information on patient care from hospitals. What they’ve learned has led them to set standards of treatment for such serious medical conditions as heart failure.

Heart-failure care
The heart of a person with heart failure can’t pump blood as well as it should. That means the person’s body isn’t getting all the oxygen and nutrients it needs.

Click here to learn more about the standards that hospitals work toward in treating patients with heart failure.

How are we doing?
University Health Systems voluntarily sends information to CMS and others that shows how well our hospitals are meeting these national standards. Choose from the list at right to see reports on a particular hospital’s treatment of heart failure.

Note: Quality measures are not included here if the hospital reported on fewer than 25 such cases.