<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3q7w3L_1H43XwMH00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3q7w3L_1H43XwMH00" width="900" height="506" ></figure>PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Three OSF HealthCare hospitals have earned national recognition for excellence in heart care. Dr. Darrel Gumm, vice president of OSF HealthCare Cardiovascular Institute, was a guest on WMBD This Morning to explain more about the services and the award.“The award is a ‘platinum’ recognition,” he said.It’s based on how quickly they treat heart attack patients.“We want this to go as fast as possible, from the time that pain starts, to the time we get that vessel back open,” he explained.“We’ve had a national standard, for many years, of less than 90 minutes,” he explained.“If you can get your patients under 90 minutes for a full year, you get a ‘silver’ award. If you can do that so well for 2 years in a row, they call that ‘gold,’ and if you can do that for 3 years in a row, it’s ‘platinum,'” he explained. OSF St. Francis in Peoria has achieved and maintained the platinum level for over 2 decades. The Heart Attack program at St. Francis started back in 2004, so the first year the platinum was possible was 2006.“The first year you could get ‘platinum’ was 2006, and we’ve had it every single year, until now, 2026,” he pointed out.“The three hospitals [that received the award] are St. Anthony in Rockford, St. Joeseph, in Bloomington, and St. Francis in Peoria,” Gumm said. “It’s not just the dedicated cardiologists and cath-lab staff, but it’s the people working down in the emergency department; it’s the EMTs, it’s the people who are flying those patients in. It is a system-wide dedication,” he said.Gumm credits the entire care team with making minutes matter in cardiac care. </div></body>

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PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Three OSF HealthCare hospitals have earned national recognition for excellence in heart care. Dr. Darrel Gumm, vice president of OSF HealthCare Cardiovascular Institute, was a guest on WMBD This Morning to explain more about the services and the award. “The award is a ‘platinum’ recognition,”...

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