Who loves your heart and brain as much as you do? The clinical teams at the five Baptist hospitals. That is why our cardiac and stroke teams have worked so hard to achieve the highest standards in treating heart attack and stroke quickly. These nurses, doctors and supporting staff understand that time is muscle and brain. Their focused attention to constantly improving accuracy and time have earned Baptist a number of prestigious honors and awards, but the real winners are the patients whose lives and health are saved.

Target Stroke Honor Roll – given by the American Heart Association in December when Baptist demonstrated that they had achieved the target stroke treatment times for emergency patients nearly 74 percent of the time. The AHA goal is 50 percent, and the national average is 27 percent.

Bronze Award for Stroke – given by the American Heart Association in November when Baptist demonstrated exemplary compliance in stroke treatment through the AHA Get with the Guidelines program.

Bronze Award for Heart Failure – given by the American Heart Association in July when Baptist demonstrated exemplary compliance in heart failure treatment through the AHA Get with the Guidelines program.

Primary Stroke Center designation – given by The Joint Commission in May. All five Baptist hospitals earned this distinction, the first in San Antonio to receive it.

Chest Pain Center Accreditation – given by the Society for Chest Pain Centers, first in 2005 and re-certified in 2008.

Medicare Value-Based Cardiac Care Center designation – given by Medicare to the Baptist hospitals, which are the only hospitals in Texas to have received it.