Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is proud to be a founding member and active participant in the Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group (NNECDSG), often just referred to as "the NNE."
The group was founded in 1987 to provide information about the management of cardiovascular disease in Maine, 新汉普郡, 和佛蒙特州. This consortium is an inter-institutional model for the improvement of medical and surgical care.
The group adopted the following mission statement:
The Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group exists to develop and exchange information concerning the treatment of cardiovascular disease. 这是地区性的, 自愿的, multi-disciplinary group of clinicians, hospital 管理员, and health care research personnel who seek to improve continuously the quality, 安全, 有效性, and cost of medical interventions in cardiovascular disease.
The NNECDSG maintains registries for all patients receiving coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), and heart valve surgery. During the last 12 years, data on more than 150,000 consecutive procedures were collected and analyzed.
The group meets three times a year to review data, plan studies, and improve care. An executive committee composed of three representatives (an administrator, surgeon and cardiologist) from each institution and the director of the NNECDSG constitutes the administrative structure for the group.
NNECDSG成员
Members include cardiothoracic surgeons in the region, as well as interventional cardiologists, 管理员, operating room and cardiac ICU nurses, 麻醉医师, perfusionists, and scientists associated with the eight institutions that provide advanced cardiac care in this region.
The member institutions include:
- Catholic Medical Center, 曼彻斯特, 新汉普郡
- Central Maine Medical Center刘易斯顿,缅因州
- 协和医院, 和谐, 新汉普郡
- Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 黎巴嫩, 新汉普郡
- Eastern Maine Medical Center我来自缅因州班戈
- Fletcher Allen 健康 Care, Burlington, Vermont
- Maine Medical Center缅因州波特兰
- Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Portsmouth, 新汉普郡, and their two affiliates: 纽约医院纽约,缅因州,和 Wentworth Douglass Hospital, Dover, 新汉普郡