Uwchlan Ambulance Corps was recently presented with the American Heart Association’s Mission Lifeline 2015 EMS Bronze Performance Achievement award for our work in treating patients who presented with S-T Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) – a type of heart attack.
To achieve the Bronze Performance Achievement Award, UAC achieved a 75% or higher compliance score for each specific EMS quality measure for 3 to 9 months in 2014. These measures include:
– Percentage of patients with non-traumatic chest pain, 35 years old or greater, treated and transported by EMS who received a pre-hospital 12 lead ECG.
– Percentage of STEMI patients transported to a STEMI Receiving Center, with pre-hospital First Medical Contact (FMC) to Device (PCI) less than 90 minutes.
As you can imagine, it takes the work of the entire medical team to make this happen. Uwchlan Ambulance Corps would like to thank the local hospitals for working with us in order to achieve this standard of care for our patients.
The communities we serve should be very proud of us for achieving this standard. We are one of only 62 agencies in Pennsylvania and 447 in the United States to meet and/or surpass this benchmark.
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