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  • ACE Continues to Support Facilities Via Accreditation Despite COVID-19

    Despite other accreditation bodies such as the Joint Commission suspending normal survey activities due to COVID-19, Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence (ACE) will continue to support quality cardiology programs throughout this crisis by accrediting facilities with virtual site visits.
     

    Quality Matters: COVID-19 and Cardiology Quality

    When it comes to COVID-19, perhaps one of the most pressing issues for clinicians is the exceedingly practical consideration of wearing suddenly scarce personal protective equipment like surgical masks. COVID-19 and cardiology are intrinsically linked, with the disease’s impact on cardiac injury being scrutinized more closely. This edition of Quality Matters summarizes what you need to know, right now.
     

    Quality Matters: COVID-19 and Virtual Learning

    With COVID-19 fears causing cancellations of large, international scientific conferences, many are looking to the potential of virtual learning in cardiology for spreading the latest science and best practice information to clinicians. What do we gain from virtual learning in cardiology? What do we lose? And can we trust what we learn on social media?
     

    Quality Matters: Value-based or Values-based Care?

    Value-based care is always a discussion-starter, and federal payment programs aimed at promoting quality outcomes may be missing the mark. How do we define value, and what do some experts mean in calling attention to values-based care, rather than value-based care? we take a look.
     

    Quality Matters: Cardiac Surgery

    Recent news coming out of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons 56th Annual Meeting at the end of January offers a number of considerations related to cardiac surgery quality. This Quality Matters news brief goes beyond STS 2020 to find a detailed feature on the patient’s perspective of cardiac surgery and a breakthrough which could prevent kidney complications from cardiac surgery.
     
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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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