Heart Failure Optimal Care

If you have heart failure, your heart cannot pump blood as well as it should. That means your body is not getting the food and nutrients it needs.

What is optimal care for heart failure

Optimal care for heart failure is treatment that meets guidelines for practices that have proven over time to get the best results.

National standards

When hospitals treat patients with heart failure, they send patient care information to national organizations. Two of those organizations are The Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

These organizations study information from many hospitals to see what treatments work best for heart failure. They have come up with standards of treatment for heart failure and other serious medical conditions.

Learn more about the standards for treating heart failure.

Select a hospital name to see how it rates in heart failure care.