Elkhart General Hospital named Accredited Heart Failure Center

The Healthcare Colloquium, a Battelle company, announces that Elkhart General Hospital has achieved the designation of being named an Accredited Heart Failure Center.

"The leadership team at Elkhart General Hospital did an amazing job coming together to demonstrate their broad capacity serving patients with heart failure," says James Stoodt, Senior Vice President, Member Development and Member Services of The Healthcare Colloquium, who presented during the in-depth onsite review. "The Healthcare Colloquium is very committed to supporting Elkhart on its journey of continuous improvement."

"Elkhart's approach to managing and improving heart failure care is an outstanding example of constancy of purpose and relentless continual improvement," says David Wayne, lead reviewer from The Healthcare Colloquium and Temple University adjunct faculty member. "Their leadership team is extraordinary and their outstanding staff is competent, collaborative, and passionate about patient care."

The Healthcare Colloquium's unique heart failure accreditation process builds on the member hospital's prior improvement experience leading to initial heart failure accreditation. Member hospitals work within four established domains of heart failure: Community, Hospital, Clinicians, and Science using The Healthcare Colloquium's continuum of care model that leads to:

• An integration of heart failure care, from antecedents to early diagnosis and advanced care
• Streamlined processes across the entire continuum of care beginning in the community
• Enabling individuals to participate in their own care with more independence and less hospitalization
• Collaboration with other Colloquium member hospitals across the country

"Achieving certification from The Healthcare Colloquium is a tremendous accomplishment for Elkhart General Hospital and our staff," says Greg Losasso, President of Elkhart General Hospital. "We hold ourselves to the highest standards of care and the Colloquium provides a mechanism to validate our status. The standards they set and the ability to benchmark and share best practices with others raise the level of care throughout our region. This is a great partnership."

"Achieving certification from The Healthcare Colloquium is validation that Elkhart General Hospital provides high quality care based on evidence based best practices for our heart failure patients and their families," says Katherine Russell MSN, RN, Executive Director of Nursing for Elkhart General Hospital. "The Healthcare Colloquium's certification structure allowed us a platform to visualize our current processes and access their best practices to improve and grow our program."