Awards and Accreditations

Heart & Vascular Quality Care

The Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute is a state-of-the-art facility that uses evidence-based clinical practice, sound research and tested care principles to support excellent clinical outcomes. CMHVI is committed to providing continuous quality care to the communities we serve, our patients and their families. The physicians and team members remain proud of the values that have served as a foundation for the program since its inception.

C = Compassion M = Mastery H = Honesty V = Vision I = Integrity

CMHVI is proud of these achievements:

• 2019 Get with the Guidelines® – Stroke GOLD PLUS
  Second straight year that CMMC earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a set level for a designated period.
• 2019 named one of the Nation’s 50 top cardiovascular hospitals by IBM Watson Health
• 2018 Accreditation for Quality Care in Advanced Primary Stroke by The Joint Commission
• 2018 Awarded Chest Pain Center Accreditation  – The American College of Cardiology

• 2018 Women’s Choice Award® –  America’s Best Hospitals Heart Care

• 2018 Get With The Guidelines® – Stroke GOLD PLUS 

  Central Maine Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines^®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

• Maine’s first Accredited Chest Pain Center 2005
  • PCI (Heart Attack Center) Accreditation 2008
  • National Society of Chest Pain and PCI Center Accreditation (Cycle III 2011)
• Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield- Blue Distinction for Cardiac Services
• Aetna Institute of Quality® Cardiac Care Facility for Cardiac Medical Intervention and Surgery

• Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories National (ICAEL)
  • Accreditation in Echocardiography, Stress Echocardiography, and Transesophageal Echocardiography
• Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories National (ICAVL)
  • Extracranial Cerebrovascular Testing, Peripheral Venous Testing, and Peripheral Arterial Testing
• American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR)
  • Program Certification Cardiac Rehabilitation
• Health Grades Quality Ratings
  • 3 – Star Hospital Quality Rating for Carotid Artery Surgery and Peripheral Bypass Surgery
  • 3- Star Hospital Quality Rating for Heart Attack, Heart Bypass surgery (CABG), and Valve Replacement Surgery