Awards

The Carondelet Heart Institute is one of only 124 hospitals in the nation to earn the Premier Award for Quality in the treatment of heart attack (AMI) heart bypass (CABG) heart failure, and is recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a leading cardiac institution.

HealthGrades™ awarded the Carondelet Heart Institute its Five Star rating to our heart surgery program, and acclaimed our overall heart program as among the very best in Missouri.

Get With the Guidelines Silver Achievement Award

St. Joseph Medical Center earned the Get With the Guidelines® Silver Achievement Award from the American College of Cardiology Foundation’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry. Hospitals earn the award by following strict treatment guidelines for 12 consecutive months and achieving the goal of treating coronary artery disease patients with 85 percent compliance to the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association’s core standard levels of care.

GWTG Gold Performance Achievement Award

St. Joseph Medical Center has earned the American College of Cardiology Foundation’s NCDR ACTION Registry–GWTG Gold Performance Achievement Award for 2011 – one of only 167 hospitals nationwide to do so. To earn this award, St. Joseph consistently followed the treatment guidelines in ACTION Registry–GWTG, as outlined by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association, for eight consecutive quarters and met a performance standard of 85 percent for specific performance measures.