AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

In June 2006, the ACC began building the D2B Alliance TM, a nationwide network of hospitals, physician champions and strategic partners committed to addressing the D2B TM challenge. D2B: An Alliance for Quality TM formally launched in November 2006 at the American Heart Association annual meeting. This rapidly expanding learning community is committed to working together to provide the tools, information and support necessary to help hospitals achieve their goals and improve outcomes in this critical area... D2B: An Alliance for Quality TM is a new Guidelines Applied in Practice (GAP) program launched by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to save time and save lives by reducing the door-to-balloon times in U.S. hospitals performing primary PCI. A growing list of other organizations, including the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, are partners in this effort... The D2B Alliance is a national effort that enlisted clinicians,..

Also known as: ACC, American Heart Association