Walker Baptist Medical Center has received the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital's commitment to ensuring heart failure patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines.

Walker Baptist Medical Center earned the award by meeting quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure patients.

"The tools that the American Heart Association provided to us has helped us track and measure our success in meeting evidenced-based guidelines to improve patient outcomes," said Walker Baptist CEO Bob Phillips.