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Heart Failure Task Force
The Heart Failure Task Force vision is to decrease the morbidity and mortality associated with heart failure across mid-Michigan.
The following three bullets outline the Heart Failure Task Force outcome options:
- To improve compliance with American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association practice guidelines for the care of heart failure patients;
- To improve heart failure quality of care measures;
- To lower the risk of death and 30 and 60-day re-hospitalization in patients hospitalized for heart failure.
Outlined below are the nine hospitals across mid-Michigan that are participating in this guideline adherence initiative:
- Bay Regional Medical Center
- Genesys Health System
- Hurley Medical Center
- Ingham Regional Medical Center
- Lapeer Regional Medical Center
- McLaren Regional Medical Center
- Memorial Healthcare
- Mid-Michigan Medical Center
- Saint Mary’s Health System
Institute of Medicine - Quality Chasm Summit Report
Mid-Michigan Guidelines Applied in Practice - Heart Failure (GAP-HF) Projects Manuscript and Abstracts
"Triumph of Common Sense” – Modern Healthcare, December 5, 2005
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