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Get on Track

Reduce Patient Mortality by Improving Heart Failure Patient Care


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Guidelines for heart failure treatment have changed. Does your team have the support needed to implement them?

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Use this paper to:

Assess your hospital’s heart failure program

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Take a one-page assessment to understand how your processes measure up.

Understand & implement quadruple therapy

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The new standard of care significantly reduces mortality and improves quality of life, yet fewer than 10% of patients receive it.

Leverage tools to improve heart failure patient management

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Access patient and professional-facing assets, including proven registry tools to improve care today and stay on track with evolving guidelines.

Hear from hospital teams using Get With The Guidelines® - Heart Failure


“We started at 25% readmissions, now we’re down to 16%. We no longer have to pay any penalties.”
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Heart & Vascular Services

“I do not think we’d be doing this well with outcomes if we weren’t participating in [Get With The Guidelines], and I’ve been doing this a long time.”
RN Clinical Program Manager

“The program drives best practices. Changes in guideline-directed care may otherwise take time to trickle down to patients. It helps things progress quicker.”
Associate Professor at Teaching Hospital


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Nearly 600 U.S. hospitals use Get With The Guidelines® - Heart Failure to support guideline adherence.

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“Quadruple therapy is the new standard for heart failure treatment. These four medications are not a burden: they’re a gift in terms of improving patient outcomes over time.”

Lee Goldberg, MD, MPH

Are you on track?

If your hospital isn’t adhering to the latest guidelines, you may be falling behind. We’re here to support your team’s improvement.


The American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines program is designed to support hospitals just like yours. After 25 years of implementation and evolution, it’s a proven process to guide patient care and influence outcomes.

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The guidelines have been set. Is your team equipped to follow?


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The “Get on Track” white paper and self-assessment are not official research. These resources were developed by the American Heart Association to help grow awareness about evidence-based guidelines, existing peer-reviewed resources and tools to support treatment of heart failure patients.