HobNobMurfreesboro Announces Middle Tennessee Medical Center Receives Top Award for Stroke Care
Summary
MTMC and 569 other hospitals are featured in a July 28 advertisement in the “America’s Best Hospitals” issue of US News & World Report to commemorate their receipt of GWTG: Stroke Gold Performance Achievement Award.The goal of this initiative is to improve the quality of life and help reduce deaths and disability among patients with heart disease and stroke.” MTMC is Stroke Center Certified by The Joint Commission.Saint Thomas Health Services’ regional health system consists of four hospitals – Baptist and Saint Thomas in Nashville, Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro and Hickman Community Hospital in Centerville – and a comprehensive network of affiliated joint ventures in diagnostics, cardiac services and ambulatory surgery as well as medical practices, the Center for Spinal Surgery, clinics and rehabilitation facilities.This partnership is designed to help promote the awareness of the medical community and its advances in Murfreesboro, TN.Middle Tennessee Medical Center has been recognized for achievement in using evidence-based guidelines to provide the best possible care to patients through The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) program.MTMC and 569 other hospitals are featured in a July 28 advertisement in the “America’s Best Hospitals” issue of US News & World Report to commemorate their receipt of GWTG: Stroke Gold Performance Achievement Award.Saint Thomas Health Services’ regional health system consists of four hospitals – Baptist and Saint Thomas in Nashville, Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro and Hickman Community Hospital in Centerville – and a comprehensive network of affiliated joint ventures in diagnostics, cardiac services and ambulatory surgery as well as medical practices, the Center for Spinal Surgery, clinics and rehabilitation facilities.