Dr. Page, whose research interests include atrial fibrillation and automated external defibrillators, took a year off from medical school at Duke University, Durham, N.C., to study electrophysiology at Columbia University in New York as a Sarnoff Fellow. He received his medical degree from Duke in 1984, and completed his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He pursued postgraduate research as a Sarnoff Scholar and served on the faculty at Duke before going to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1992, where he served as director of clinical cardiac electrophysiology until joining the staff at the University of Washington in 2002.
Heart Care Certification Awarded
The Joint Commission has awarded certification to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill., the first organization in the United States to be recognized under the Disease-Specific Care Advanced Certification Program in Heart Failure. Developed by the Joint Commission in collaboration with the American Heart Association, the program recognizes hospitals that foster better quality of care and outcomes for heart failure patients. To be certified, organizations must meet the program's standards and performance measurement requirements; must sustain for 90 days or more at least 85% compliance with the five achievement measures of Get With the Guidelines–Heart Failure, a quality improvement program of the American Heart Association; and must collect data on Joint Commission core measures for heart failure and use the data in performance improvement activities.
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