Lourdes Hospital has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Silver Plus Performance Achievement Award. The award recognizes Lourdes’ commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations.

WESTPORT, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--

Standing Stone, Inc., an industry leader in disease management applications, is pleased to announce the addition of inpatient anticoagulation facilities to its hallmark product: CoagClinic. Unfractionated heparin administration has been added to the warfarin and low molecular weight heparin management facilities to provide a single anticoagulation solution for all inpatient and outpatient needs. 

The outpatient anticoagulation clinic of Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital recently was ranked in the 100th percentile nationwide for ensuring its patients' blood test results are within the appropriate International Normalized Ratio (INR) range according to The Standing Stone Chronicles data for 2009.

The medical center was chosen for this award based on the development of an innovative approach to meet one of The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals related to Prophylactic Anticoagulation Orders.

Westport, CT -- PRNewswire -- Dr. Mark Wurster from The Ohio State University Medical Center presented his findings at the September 29th meeting of the University Health Consortium’s Fall Forum. According to Dr. Wurster, "OSU is the only organization out of 31 participants in the UHC benchmarking study that qualified for better performance status. OSUMC showed excellent results and achieved above the UHC mean in every area of managing anticoagulation therapy with the use of critical laboratory studies. The system used in the UHC trial was developed using principles found in CoagClinic™, a commercially available software application.”

Pharmacy Purchasing & Products recently published an interview with Gail Carey RN, CACP the Manager of the Anticoagulation Clinic at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts. Emerson has been using CoagClinic for five years. Read how it has increased efficiency and improved patient care.