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  • COVID-19 Retrospective: Lessons Learned

    In this two part blog, we examine how organizations met the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as quality care issues highlighted by the realities of this disease—from inequities to provider burnout and, of course, the effects of the disease on cardiovascular function—and look to the future of cardiovascular excellence in what is not simply our ‘new normal’ but rather our transformational ‘new existence.’
     

    AI and the Future of Quality in Cardiology: 4 Trends

    What will quality cardiac care look like in 2025? In 2030? What’s on the near horizon? How will artificial intelligence (AI) impact clinicians, clinical decision-making and the delivery of top-quality cardiology services? Plus, what trends will AI applications impact and accelerate?
     

    11 Common Cath Lab Mistakes

    Is your cath lab making any of these common mistakes? Original science (2019) from Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence identifies 11 specific domains where most cath labs under review only partially met or did not meet ACE quality standards to help target quality improvement efforts, broadly, with tips on how to achieve quality improvement gains.
     

    What's NEW in ACE's 2020 Cath/PCI Standards?

    The update includes brand-new standards crucial to the provision of safe, quality cardiovascular services to patients in Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs), as well as integrating the latest guidance on Cardiogenic Shock as new standards across all environments.
     

    ACE Updates Cath/PCI Standards for 2020

    Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence is announcing the release of its newly updated, openly available and transparently developed quality standards for the cardiac catheterization laboratory. These are standards crucial to quality delivery of cardiac Cath/PCI services, especially in environments where patients needing additional care must be transferred to another facility, such as Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs).
     
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    • LATEST: What's NEW in ACE's 2020 Cath/PCI Standards?
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    • ACE Updates Cath/PCI Standards for 2020 with Guidance for Ambulatory Surgery Centers
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    • ACE CMO Weiner to Participate on Yale/CORE Technical Expert Panel for Reevaluation of Inpatient Claims-based Outcome Measures
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    • ACE Announces New Board Members: Drs. Cigarroa and Cowley
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    • ACE Recognized in ACC's 2019 Quality Summit Poster Competition
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    • ACE Launches Quality Matters Weekly News Brief
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    • Accreditation as a Tool for Quality Improvement and Motivation
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  • Welcome to ACE. Where Quality is our focus, and everyone wins! 

    We are the exclusive provider of Cardiac Cath/PCI Accreditation, and the specialized source for a range of performance-focused Quality Reviews for the Cath Lab. Together, our offerings are designed to achieve one thing: assure that our clients embrace and realize the rewards and benefits of Quality Improvement...today, and on a continuing basis.

    When a lab takes up the Quality challenge with ACE, it’s easy to see how everyone wins: physicians, lab managers and staff, administration, insurers, and especially patients. ACE does this by:

    • Focusing our Accreditation and Quality Reviews on performance and process optimization...helping customers
      embrace long term CQI practices that have a positive ripple effect through the institution
    • Reducing complexity, helping customers achieve a clear Quality ‘focus’ and easy implementation
    • Engaging physicians and the full lab team, and the institution as a whole
    • Applying our extensive expertise to assure that ACE clients achieve performance results efficiently, cost effectively,
      securely, and can operate with reduced risk
    It is our goal to show our customers a smarter way to live Quality and realize its many benefits. These web pages are
    designed to help you see how you can benefit. So, view our Accreditation and Quality Review videos. Read the latest
    Articles and Presentations. And get your questions answered in our FAQ section. Get started by clicking here
    for Accreditation information, and click here for the Quality Review story.

    Contact an ACE representative to learn more. Call 202-657-6859, or email info@cvexcel.org
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