The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium Company Profile
As a hospital membership organization, the Colloquium enjoys a wide range of member hospitals each with a common shared passion: pre-eminence in caring for those with heart failure. Starting with the human person and using a relationship care model, Colloquium member hospitals work together to identify what is really important to those with heart failure throughout the entire continuum of care. The Colloquium’s approach to improvement includes traditional process improvement approaches but also embraces cultural change methods needed to navigate uncertain times faced by healthcare leadership today.
News from The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium:
The Healthcare Colloquium Launches Final Charter Pediatric Heart Failure Hospitals
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The Healthcare Colloquium announced today the launch of the final group of charter pediatric hospitals to enter the Colloquium joining the original 2013 charter members. Colloquium pediatric member hospitals are committed to excellence in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric heart failure. The new charter hospitals are: Holtz […]
The Healthcare Colloquium Acquired by Battelle Memorial Institute
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Cutting-edge Analytics from Battelle to Offer Member Hospitals Cutting-Edge Tools to Improve Care and Reduce Costs. Hospitals have the opportunity to become safer, more affordable and more efficient because of Battelle's recent acquisition of the Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium. The purchase, finalized on Jan. 2, will add Battelle's extensive […]
Texas' First Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute Is Texas Children's Hospital
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium announced today that Texas Children's Hospital has earned the designation of Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute following twelve months of work and an extensive onsite review. "The approach to heart failure at Texas Children's Hospital is one of the broadest ranging comprehensive programs in […]
Now There Are Six: Banner Health adds to their Accredited Heart Failure Centers and Pioneering Accredited Heart Failure Institutes®
PHOENIX, Dec. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium announced that Banner Baywood and Banner Del E. Webb medical centers have been named Accredited Heart Failure Centers. This continues a unique quality initiative that began in 2009 when Banner Heart Hospital became the first Accredited Heart Failure Institute® in Arizona. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131209/PH29406-a) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131209/PH29406-b) "As the only […]
Mayo Clinic Children's Center becomes First Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute in Minnesota and Fourth in the Nation
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium announced today that Mayo Clinic Children's Center became the first Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute in Minnesota and fourth in the nation after successfully completing a rigorous one year effort focused on the diagnosis and treatment of childhood heart failure within the community, hospital, clinician […]
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Becomes First Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute in Pennsylvania and Third in the Nation
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium announced today that Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) became the first Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute in Pennsylvania and third in the nation following nearly a year of work culminating in an in-depth onsite review. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130916/PH80202) "Children's Hospital of Philadelphia continues in its long tradition […]
Nation's Second Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute is Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children of Wilmington, DE
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium announced today that Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE became the second Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute in the nation following an in-depth onsite review. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130826/PH68995-a ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130826/PH68995LOGO-b ) "We pursued accreditation with the Colloquium as a way to independently assess the quality of […]
Three Colloquium Charter Pediatric Members Place in the Top Five of U.S. News Best Children's Hospitals Rankings
All five Colloquium Charter Pediatric Hospitals ranked in top 50 for Cardiology and Heart Surgery COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium announced today that five out of five Colloquium charter pediatric hospitals were ranked in the top 50 for cardiology and heart surgery in the U.S. News ratings of 179 pediatric […]
Colloquium Grants First Critical Access Hospital Heart Failure Accreditation to Indiana's IU Health Blackford Hospital
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Colloquium announced today that IU Health Blackford Hospital became the first critical care access hospital in America to achieve Colloquium Heart Failure Accreditation. Critical access hospitals (CAHs) serve rural areas and have fewer than 25 beds. CAHs often do not have the resources to care for those with […]
Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium Recognizes Columbus Regional Hospital as First Heart Failure Center in Its Class for 2013
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Columbus Regional Hospital was recognized today as the first community based independent hospital to achieve Heart Failure Center Re-accreditation by the Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium in 2013. The Colloquium has pioneered "continual accreditation" which requires hospitals to add additional heart failure services for their communities each year. Columbus Regional Hospital […]
Metropolitan Methodist Hospital Achieves Heart Failure Accreditation
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Metropolitan Methodist Hospital became the third hospital in the greater San Antonio region to achieve Colloquium Heart Failure Accreditation. Joining sister hospitals, Methodist Specialty & Transplant Hospital and Methodist Stone Oak Hospital, Metropolitan met twelve heart failure milestone requirements in four domains: Community, Hospital, Clinician, and Science. "We were […]
Healthcare Colloquium First to Implement New ST2 Blood Test in Heart Failure Accreditation
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium announced today the first use of ST2, a new blood test for heart failure, as part of an accreditation process for hospitals. "Our work began in 2011," said Dr. Tony Joseph, Colloquium CEO. "We are proud of our member hospitals and heart failure experts that […]
