高血压中心认证
Demonstrate that you have what it takes to take on complex cases.
Hypertension is a major risk factor for both heart disease and stroke. But while controlling your patients' high blood pressure is of the utmost importance, complications and comorbidities can make it difficult to achieve. Hypertension Center certification helps practices demonstrate the expertise needed for effective treatment.
Hypertension Centers are certified as either a Comprehensive Hypertension Center or a Hypertension Practice Center based on the characteristics and capabilities outlined below.
How Certification Supports 质量改进
The certification process helps practice teams mobilize to implement quality improvement practices, including adherence to evidence-based hypertension treatment guidelines and ongoing professional education.
How Certification Raises Facility Profiles
Hypertension Center certification serves as tangible evidence of your practice's commitment to improving hypertension care and reducing patients' risk for heart disease and stroke. The AHA/ASA helps spread the word through:
- Display of the iconic Heart-Check mark, a symbol patients know and trust
- National recognition on the AHA/ASA online quality map
我们如何支持认证过程
We're with you every step of the way, providing:
- 工具和资源
- 受教育机会
- Individualized assistance from program representatives
Eligibility Requirements for Comprehensive Centers
- Center is located in either academic medical center or in large multi-specialty clinics.
- Director meets criteria outlined in certification requirements.
- Center is recognized as referral and treatment resource for resistant and secondary hypertension, 替代疗法.
- Personnel are certified in recording blood pressure and in maintaining equipment for the center as well as patient self-monitoring.
- Center performs and interprets 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure recording.
- Center has facilities to perform extensive multispecialty examination and treatment to assess complicated hypertension problems:
- 定量超声心动图
- 运动测试
- 踝肱指数
- 颈动脉多普勒
- 自主神经功能的评估
- 中心进行诊断评估:
- 肾动脉造影
- 肾静脉肾素取样
- 多普勒肾超声
- CT血管造影术
- MR血管造影
- 肾上腺静脉取样检测醛固酮
- 中心进行干预:
- 肾血管成形术伴/不伴支架植入
- 腹腔镜肾上腺切除术
- 睡眠实验室
- Center participates in investigator-initiated research and/or in appropriate multicenter trials and observational studies.
- Center performs ongoing quality improvement in accord with standardized quality performance guidelines.
- Personnel participate in ongoing hypertension educational activities.
- Personnel participate in teaching hypertension to medical students, house officers and fellows.
- Personnel participate in the publication of scholarly articles related to the field of hypertension and related disorders.
Eligibility Requirements for Practice Centers
- Director meets criteria outlined in certification requirements.
- Majority of practice must be devoted to patients with hypertension and related disorders.
- Recognition as referral and treatment resource for resistant and secondary hypertension, 替代疗法.
- Personnel are certified in recording blood pressure and in maintaining equipment for both the Center and self-monitoring for patients.
- Performs and interprets 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure recording.
- Has access to facilities to perform extensive multi-specialty examination and treatment to assess complicated hypertension problems:
- 定量超声心动图
- 运动测试
- 踝肱指数
- 颈动脉多普勒
- 自主神经功能的评估
- 诊断评估:
- 肾动脉造影
- 肾静脉肾素取样
- 多普勒肾超声
- CT血管造影术
- MR血管造影
- 肾上腺静脉取样检测醛固酮
- 干预措施:
- 肾血管成形术伴/不伴支架植入
- 腹腔镜肾上腺切除术
- 睡眠实验室
- Participates in investigator-initiated research and/or in appropriate multi-center trials and observational studies.
- Practice performs ongoing quality improvement in accord with standardized quality performance guidelines.
- Personnel participate in ongoing hypertension educational activities.
看看谁在名单上
Our Certified Hypertension Centers list continues to grow every month. Download our current map to find out who is a certified Comprehensive Hypertension Center and a Hypertension Practice Center.
