ECU Health receives national heart treatment award

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association are honoring ECU Health on a national level.

The ‘Get with the Guidelines’ Achievement Awards honors excellence in work treating stroke, diabetes, cardiac arrest, heart attack, and heart failure. The award recognizes ECU Health’s commitment to following up to date, research based guidelines for treatment which leads to more lives saved and shorter recovery times.

“They’re really real conditions that take such a toll on the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina. For our facilities across a very challenged environment to have a commitment to be able to deliver evidence based care locally to those communities is what this really is all about.” said Dr. Niti Singh Armistead, Chief Quality Officer of ECU Health.

All nine ECU Health hospitals received the national recognition.

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