Commonwealth Health Hospitals Earn Reaccreditation

7/26/2018

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (July 26, 2018) – Two Commonwealth Health facilities – Moses Taylor Hospital and Wilkes-Barre General Hospital – received full Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI Reaccreditation from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care (SCPC).

An Accredited Chest Pain Center’s evidence-based, protocol-driven and systematic approach to cardiac patient care allows clinicians to reduce time to treatment during the critical early stages of a heart attack.

Accredited facilities better monitor patients when it is not initially clear whether or not a patient is having a coronary event. Such monitoring ensures patients are neither sent home too early nor needlessly admitted.

This accreditation process ensures that hospitals meet or exceed an array of stringent criteria and undergo a comprehensive onsite review by a team of accreditation review specialists. Hospitals that receive accreditation status have achieved a higher level of expertise in dealing with patients who present with symptoms of a heart attack.