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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Awards to WMH designed to speed treatment of stroke

This really means nothing because they don't list outcomes. Did the patients fully recover?
Speeding up the process means nothing if the end result was not successful.

http://wallowa.com/free/awards-to-wmh-designed-to-speed-treatment-of-stroke/article_2c604e46-1324-11e2-bc7d-0019bb2963f4.html

Wallowa Memorial Hospital recently received three of five awards presented at the Providence Telestroke Network’s annual Telestroke Summit in Portland.
Thanks to a $253,260 United States Department of Agriculture grant, WMH became one of five rural critical access hospitals in Eastern and Central Oregon to joiin the Providence Telestroke Network.
“Once a patient has a stroke, every second counts, and WMH staff use those seconds wisely,” said Laurie Marcum, WMH’s chief nursing officer.
She said that due to excellent teamwork, WMH received two awards received two awards for fastest average times and one award for fastest individual time.
Marcum explained that these times reflect the actual minutes it takes from the time the patient enters the WMH emergency department to either competing a CT scan and/or receiving a clot-busting anti-thrombolytic drug.
The standard of the American Heart and Stroke Association lists the goal for door-to-CT as 20 minutes and the goal for door-to-medication as within the first 60 minutes. WMH’s best time for CT was nine minutes and the best time for medication was 45 minutes, which Marcum said are better than most primary stroke centers in the Pacific Northwest.
The team of professionals from the emergency department, emergency medical services and imaging all stated “our team effort,” as the reason they are able to achieve such great results in a rural setting, Marcum said, noting that when every second counts, good teamwork is essential.
“We are happy to have been acknowledged for our work with stroke patients and even happier to be able to provide our patients with excellent care and the best possible chance for a good outcome with our program. It’s all part of giving premier care,” Marcum said.
She noted that having access to the Providence Telestroke Network means that patients can receive the most effective treatment right here in Wallowa County, near family and friends.

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