All six Penn Medicine hospitals have received the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines - Heart Failure Gold Plus quality achievement award for its commitment to improving outcomes for patients with heart failure. Along with this recognition, all six havealso received the American Heart Association's Target: Heart Failure Honor Roll and Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll. Hospitals on the Heart Failure Honor Roll meet specific criteria that improves medication adherence, provides early follow-up care and coordination, and enhances patient education. Those that received the Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll aim to ensure patients with Type 2 Diabetes, who might be at higher risk for complications, receive the most up-to-date, evidence-based care when hospitalized due to heart disease or stroke.
Ravi B. Parikh, MD, an assistant professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Medicine, was selected as the 2023-2025 Gilbert S. Omenn Fellow by the National Academy of Medicine. The fellowship enables talented, early-career physician-scientists combining biomedical research, public health, and clinical medicine to participate actively in health- and medicine-related study processes of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, promoting the integration of public health and medicine-both scientifically and through practice and policy.
