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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release yesterday from Allegheny Health Network, The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has recognized nine Allegheny Health Network hospitals for the high quality of their heart failure, atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, and stroke care programs. The annual American Heart Association’s (AHA) Get With The Guidelines® – Heart Failure Achievement Award for a Gold Plus designation, which is their the highest level of achievement was awarded to these hospitals: AHN Allegheny General Hospital (AGH), AHN Allegheny Valley (AVH), AHN Canonsburg, AHN Forbes, AHN Grove City, AHN West Penn, AHN Wexford and AHN Saint Vincent in Erie. In coronary artery disease outcomes with varying levels of severity, Allegheny General Hospital and AHN West Penn Hospital got Gold designations, AHN Forbes Hospital got a Silver designation and AHN Jefferson Hospital got a Bronze designation from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Hospitals that have an 85 percent chance or higher compliance to core levels of care that are standard as outlined by the American Heart Association for a period of twenty-four months in a row and have a seventy-five percent or higher chance of compliance to a group that is self-selected of quality measures from them are given the AHA/ASA Gold Plus Achievement Awards. The AHA/ASA also gave recognition to seven AHN hospitals for their stroke programs and the high quality that they have as Allegheny General Hospital, AHN Canonsburg, AHN Jefferson and AHN Saint Vincent in Erie got awarded their Gold Plus designation and Allegheny Valley Hospital, AHN Grove City and AHN Wexford got awarded their Bronze Achievement designations. In the first year of the AHA/ASA’s Commitment to Quality Award, this award was given to Allegheny General Hospital, which only 158 hospitals in the United States earned in 2025. The AHA/ASA’s Commitmnet to Quality Award goes to hospitals that acheive excellence in three or more Get With The Guidelines modules from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.