What is D2B?

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	D2B Spotlight
	Please Complete Your Follow Up Survey By now all D2B Alliance hospitals should have received an email with the D2B Follow Up Survey link. We urge you to please complete your follow up online survey. It should take only about 20 minutes. This information will help us understand your institution’s experience and improve future initiatives. Please help us achieve 100% participation! For additional information, you can contact Matthew Fitzgerald at mfitzger@acc.org. Thank you for your time and consideration of this important initiative.
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	What is D2B?
	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. National guidelines developed by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) state that hospitals treating STEMI patients with emergency PCI should reliably achieve a door-to-balloon time of 90 minutes or less. However, accomplishing this level of performance is an organizational challenge. The D2B Alliance^TM was developed to make what is current extraordinary performance ordinary by providing hospitals with key evidence-based strategies and supporting tools needed to begin reducing their D2B^TM times. More importantly, it provides an open, vibrant community for hospitals to share their findings and experiences and reward excellence. The D2B Alliance^TM offers something for all participants, whether a hospital is already well on its way to reducing D2B^TM times or just beginning. Your hospital can join the community of over 1,000 hospitals already enrolled in D2B^TM! If your facility has not yet registered it's not too late. Sign up via the web now! For more information on the D2B Alliance^TM email d2bstaff@acc.org or click here to join.

	Latest News
	* May: California STEMI Summit.08, Saturday, May 31, 2007, 11am to 4pm at the Paradise Point Resort & Spa, 1404 Vacation Road, San Diego, CA 92109. To register, click here. * February: A new paper describing the D2B Alliance^TM campaign methodology was recently published in JACC Interventions. Please click here to access the paper. * January: The D2B Alliance^TM is proud to announce that its participation now includes over 1,000 primary PCI hospitals representing 10 countries!! Thank you to all of the participants, partners, ACC Governors and Chapters who made this amazing achievement possible! * November: The D2B Alliance^TM webinar on Pre-Hospital ECG to Activate the Cath Lab was held November 13, 2007, from 3:00pm-4:00pm (EST). If you were unable to participate, please click here to review the webinar in its entirety. * October: The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an article with open access on Time to Treatment in Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Please click here to read the article. * October: The D2B Alliance^TM held a webinar on October 9, 2007, from 3:00pm-4:00pm (EDT) focusing on Improving the Processes and Culture for Efficient Cath Lab Preparation.