What is the Value of Corazon’s Cardiovascular Accreditation? Corazon is known for accrediting cardiovascular programs of all sizes throughout the United States. Unlike other accrediting bodies, however, Corazon Accreditation is more than just a means to achieve state requirements. We are a strategic partner, one whose value comes from a collaborative and consultative approach to…
Author: Amy Newell Accountability of an Accredited Program As we continue to accredit PCI programs and Chest Pain Centers across the country, oftentimes we find programs are able to capitalize on their current success as either being an active PCI center, or a stand-alone chest pain center. Managing cardiac patients across the continuum of care…
Promoting Your Cardiovascular Accreditation With the continued rise of social media use across many and varied platforms, most of us are used to seeing near-constant posts and messages about the accomplishments of our peers, friends, and colleagues. This can naturally lead to self-reflection and -comparison. And sometimes, parallels emerge between our personal and professional lives,…
Cardiac Procedures in the ASC: A Timeline In 2016, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) added pacemaker implants to the list of approved procedures that could be performed and reimbursed in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). In 2019, diagnostic cath procedures were added to the list, and in 2020, six cardiac percutaneous interventional (PCI)…
Positioning Your Chest Pain Center for Success In a recent article published in Cath Lab Digest on the Rationale for Developing a Chest Pain Center, accreditation was briefly discussed as one way to position a chest pain center for success. Not only does accreditation provide a means to validate quality and improve program performance, but…
