Geisinger hospitals receive multiple American Heart Association recognitions

• Geisinger Community Medical Center, Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center were certified as Comprehensive Heart Attack Centers by AHA and the Joint Commission.
• Geisinger Medical Center, Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center and Geisinger Lewistown Hospital were certified as Comprehensive Hypertension Centers.
• Geisinger Community Medical Center, Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center received Mission: Lifeline® Regional Recognition and Get With the Guidelines Gold Plus recognition for treating STEMI, a severe type of heart attack caused by a complete blockage of a coronary artery.
• All four hospitals received Get With the Guidelines Gold Plus recognition for treating stroke and coronary artery disease and providing exceptional cardiac care for patients with type 2 diabetes.

"Geisinger is committed to providing the highest level of care for each one of our patients, every day," said Jason Mitchell, M.D., executive vice president and chief medical officer, Geisinger. "Our neighbors can count on us to provide life-saving heart and vascular care when they need it most, whether they live in an urban or rural community. We are honored to be recognized by the American Heart Association for this care."

Geisinger recently celebrated several heart care milestones, including performing 3,000 transcatheter aortic valve replacements at Geisinger Wyoming Valley; treating 500 patients with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; and graduating 1,000 patients from the remote cardiac rehabilitation program.

For more information about heart and vascular care at Geisinger, visit www.geisinger.org/heart.

About Geisinger

Geisinger is among the nation's leading providers of value-based care, serving 1.2 million people in urban and rural communities across central and northeastern Pennsylvania. Founded in 1915 by philanthropist Abigail Geisinger, the nonprofit system generates more than $8 billion in annual revenues across 163 care sites - including 10 hospital campuses - and Geisinger Health Plan, with more than half a million members in commercial and government plans. Geisinger College of Health Sciences educates more than 5,000 medical professionals annually and is conducting more than 1,400 clinical research studies. With more than 27,000 employees, including 1,800 employed physicians and 5,200 registered nurses, Geisinger is among Pennsylvania's largest employers, having an estimated economic impact of $16.8 billion on the state's economy. In 2024, Geisinger joined Risant Health, a nonprofit charitable organization created to expand and accelerate value-based care across the country. Learn more at geisinger.org or follow on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.