America's Doctor has an appointment with CaroMont Health In addition to being a television personality and best selling author, Dr. Mehmet Oz is a cardiothoracic surgeon at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). As part of our new partnership with CUMC through Columbia HeartSource, CaroMont Health will benefit from the expertise of one of the world's leading cardiac care hospitals. And that's great news. Because the people of CaroMont Health have always had the interests of this community at heart. Read More.
For more information about the CaroMont Cardiovascular Institute, please contact us at: (704) 834-2226.
CaroMont Joins Accountable Care Collaborative CaroMont Health, parent company of Gaston Memorial Hospital, will be among the first in the nation to implement a new system of health care envisioned as part of the recently passed federal reforms.
Together with a new collaborative of 60 hospitals, CaroMont will launch Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in Gaston County and the surrounding region. An ACO, a group of providers accepting accountability for the care of a defined population, is designed to keep patients healthy and out of intensive care. Read More.
100 Top Hospitals Gaston Memorial Hospital has been awarded the 2009 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmark Award, making us the only hospital in North Carolina to be recognized. This award recognizes hospitals with the highest hospital-wide performance compared with national peers, based on an overall score on the 100 Top Hospitals National Balanced Scorecard. Balanced hospital-wide performance reflects a hospital's ability to provide great value through highly reliable and efficient clinical care, financial stability, and a service to patients, local employers, payers and the entire community. The hospital's selection was based on objective statistical performance measurement across six critical areas: clinical process and outcomes, patient safety, patient perception of care, operational efficiency, financial stability, and extended outcomes.
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