About CCP
Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia, P.C.
CCP is a medical professional organization committed to the healing mission of Medicine. CCP specializes in providing comprehensive cardiology care. All patients are treated with full effort and resource utilization as indicated by their condition. All activities of CCP support the healing mission of offering health services to our patients and is based on our core values.
CCP is affiliated with The Cardiovascular Institute of Philadelphia, an independent community resource dedicated to advancing the science and practice of cardiovascular medicine. CCP has a state of the art outpatient cardiac care center, The Cardiac Care Center, a high-quality, physician-owned, freestanding catheterization facility located at Hahnemann University Hospital on the 2nd floor of the Bobst Building at 230 North Broad Street in Philadelphia (the corner of Broad & Vine Streets).
CCP News
CCP Wins the 2008 Nicholas E. Davies Ambulatory Care Award of Excellence
updated 12:21 PM
Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia (CCP) is pleased to announce that they have won a 2008 Davies Ambulatory Care Award for their success in integrating the use of EHR throughout their practice. The purpose of this award is to recognize independent ambulatory practices that have succeessfully implementated electronic health records (EHR) in their practice and specialty settings and shared their approaches and lessons learned more broadly. The Davies Award Program was originally created by CPRI-HOST in honor of Dr. Nicholas Davies, an Atlanta-based physician who was committed to improving patient care through better health information management. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine’s patient record study committee. In April, 1991, he was tragically killed in a plane crash with Senator John G. Tower (Rep.) of Texas. His ideals live on through the Davies Recognition Program now managed by HIMSS. The Davies Award Program has three tracts: Organizational, Ambulatory Care and Public Health, which together have acknowledged more than 40 hospitals, private practices and public health efforts for their exemplary EHR implementations through the Davies Award More Info
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