CHI St. Luke’s Health Memorial is setting the pace for quality local care achieving and earning multiple awards at their different branches. Their Lufkin branch, in particular, has been recognized for Excellence with ACC HeartCARE Designation for the second year in a row.

 

 

 

CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial celebrates receiving national recognition as an accredited HeartCARE Center of Excellence as designated by the American College of Cardiology.

Left to Right: Stacy Garcia, CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial Market Administrator of Service Lines; Musa Khan, M.D., Chest Pain & Cath Lab Medical Director; Monte Bostwick, CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial, Market President/CEO; Ravinder Bachireddy, M.D., Chief of Cardiology; Rohit Kedia, M.D. Electrophysiology Medical Director; Mary Franklin, CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial, Market SVP Patient Care Services
 

 

“The benefit for the community regarding our HeartCare Center accreditation is that it shows that we provide to our patients' high-quality care. In order to achieve the accreditation we have to meet a certain criteria,” said Stacy Garcia Market Administrator of Service Lines.

 

For a health care center or hospital to earn the ACC HeartCARE Center designation they must meet a set of criteria, including participating in at least two ACC Accreditation Service programs, NCDR registries and targeted quality improvement campaigns, such as Patient Navigator: Focus MI, which are designed to improve guideline-based care.

 

“So by achieving this award it shows our community that we do provide that top quality of care,” said Garcia.

 

 

 

CHI St. Luke's San Augustine Facility 

 

The San Augustine branch was also a recipient of the Leapfrog Top Hospital for excellence award, mirroring their sister hospital in Lufkin by also earning the Leapfrog award for the second year in a row. Receiving this top hospital award is quite an honor. The Leapfrog group which is a national group that surveys hospitals for quality and safety outcomes awarded the San Augustine facility as a top rural hospital in the country.  

 

"The fact that they have done that now two-years in a row, again speaks volumes to the work that team does in San Augustine," said Monte Bostwick CEO and President of CHI St. Luke’s Health Memorial.

 

“It takes leadership, teamwork and absolute dedication to patients, to achieve this award,” said Leah Binder, president, and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “

 

The Leapfrog Group also awarded the CHI St. Luke’s Livingston hospital an A grade for the work they are conducting. The CHI St. Luke’s family of hospitals has, in addition, earned a host of other accreditations and awards which are listed below.

 

Awards and Accreditations

 

•          2020 Among the Best Hospitals for Cardiac Care as listed by U.S. News & World Report

•          Recipient of the Quest 2020 Award for High-Value Healthcare

•          2019 American College of Cardiologists HeartCare Center of Excellence.  The only nationally accredited Cardiac Rehabilitation program between Tyler and Houston

•          2019 Top Rural Hospital of Excellence San Augustine for safety & quality care by The Leapfrog Group

•          2019 "A" Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade Livingston

•          2019 ACC Accredited Advanced Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI with Resuscitation Accreditation from American College of Cardiology

•          2019 Get with the Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement by the American Heart Association

•          2019 ACC Cath Lab and EP Accreditation.  The highest level of accreditation between Houston and Tyler

•          Voted Best Hospital, Best Emergency Department and Best Freestanding Emergency Room, and Best Community Event (Power of Pink!) by The Lufkin News Readers, 2019

•          Voted Best Hospital by Polk County Enterprise Readers, 2019

•          2019 Blue Distinction Total Care designation by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association for delivering high-quality, effective, cost-efficient specialty care. Livingston.

•          Joint Commission National Quality Approval

•          Wound Care & Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment Center.  2019 Wound Care Center of Excellence Healogics Center of Distinction Award for outstanding patient outcomes & high patient satisfaction scores

•          Excellence in Preparedness Award by Regional Healthcare Preparedness Coalition

•          Dedicated Heart & Stroke Care Facility

•          The area's first Joint Commission Certified Primary Care Stroke Center in East Texas

•          Advanced Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI and Resuscitation Accreditation by the American College of Cardiology,

•          Surgery, complete with two da Vinci HD Robots.  The first hospital in the state to achieve four Center of Excellence accreditations from the Surgical Review Corporation (SRC) in Minimally Invasive Gynecology (COEMIG), Hernia Surgery (COEHS), Robotic Surgery (COERS) and Minimally Invasive Surgery (COEMIS).

•          Dedicated Inpatient Stroke Unit

•          Modern Intensive Care and Progressive Care Units

•          Outpatient Cardiac Cath Lab and Heart & Vascular Imaging Center

•          The area's oldest and most respected Cancer Center in Deep East Texas

•          Accredited by the American College of Radiology

•          Infusion Center for IV Therapy, Chemotherapy and Therapeutic Injections

•          Dedicated Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit

•          14,000-square-foot Outpatient Therapy Center

•          Two state-of-the-art Imaging Centers, complete with PET/CT scanning and two Open Bore MRls

•          State-of-the-art Women's Services Center including LDRP suites and new C-section accommodations.

•          The only accredited Diabetes Education Program in the region - Polk Education Center for Heart, Stroke and Diabetes

•          Express Lab