8/20/25
8/20/25
COLUMBIA, Tenn. – Maury Regional Medical Center has received the American Heart Association’s Target: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Quality Achievement Award for its commitment to treating in-hospital cardiac arrest, ultimately helping to improve survival rates.
The Target: CPR Award was developed to recognize hospitals who monitor CPR quality during in-hospital cardiac arrest events. These hospitals strive to save more lives by ensuring consistency with the most up-to-date, research-based guidelines from the American Heart Association.
Sites who are recognized as Target: CPR leaders are committed to improving care for patients suffering from cardiac arrest by capturing data on compression rate, depth and fraction (time spent performing compressions), along with other CPR metrics. Awarded hospitals have collected and entered the data for at least half of their in-hospital cardiac arrest cases requiring CPR.
Each year, more than 300,000 adults and children experience an in-hospital cardiac arrest. Survival from cardiac arrest largely depends on timely medical emergency team response and effective CPR. The ability to consistently perform high-quality CPR is crucial for improving cardiac arrest outcomes; the difference between CPR and high-quality CPR is survival.
Maury Regional Medical Center’s nationally recognized cardiac program offers a wide array of preventative and interventional cardiac services. The center’s two state-of-the-art catheterization laboratories feature advanced technologies utilized by cardiologists and clinical care teams performing diagnostic testing and interventional, pacemaker and peripheral vascular procedures. As a certified comprehensive cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation program, Maury Regional also supports the recovery of patients who have experienced a heart attack, cardiac surgery or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Cardiac care at Maury Regional is led by 15 board-certified cardiologists on the medical staff who are associated with Vanderbilt Heart–Columbia and Ascension Saint Thomas Heart Columbia.
To learn more about the heart services offered at MRMC, visit MauryRegional.com/Heart.
