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Make Your Mark

How Post-Acute Care Organizations Are Leading the Way Toward a New Standard of Care


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Elevate Your Organization’s Reputation and Stand Out with the American Heart Association

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Use this paper to: 

Elevate your organization’s level of specialty care

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Explore how to implement evidence-based heart failure and stroke rehabilitation programs that drive measurable improvements in care quality, readmissions, and patient experience.

Strengthen referral relationships and grow your census

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Learn how to position your organization as a trusted partner to hospitals and payers to increase referrals and admissions. 

Differentiate your organization in a competitive market

Discover how leading post-acute providers stand out by aligning care delivery with nationally recognized standards.

Hear From Certified Organizations


“By standardizing assessment, escalation, and patient education, we reduced our 30‑day readmission rate from 33.33% to 14.28%—a 57% reduction in readmissions overall.”
VP of Clinical Services, Creekside Retirement Community

“It’s the most innovative as far as hospice care goes. Our average daily census in the cardiac program is between 150 and 155 patients a day now, which is a lot of growth.”
Specialty Programs Nurse Coordinator, Hospice of Cincinnati

“The certification gave us the knowledge and ability to care for stroke patients inside the SNF without sending them to the hospital.”
Director of Nursing, Tampico Healthcare Center


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“The future of post-acute care will not emerge from small adjustments—it will be built by bold, unified strategies that turn complexity into clarity and shift care from reactive to proactive excellence.”

Frederick S. Ling, MD

University of Rochester Medical Center, Chair of the American Heart Association Quality Certification Science Committee

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Is your organization positioned to stand out in today’s evolving post-acute care landscape?


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The “Make Your Mark” white paper is not official research. These resources were developed by the American Heart Association to help grow awareness about post-acute care programs in heart failure and stroke rehabilitation.