Lets examine the claims here.
http://www.silive.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2013/01/siuh_receives_gold_plus_award_for_stroke_care.html
The American Heart and American Stroke associations have acknowledged
the high quality of Staten Island University Hospital’s (SIUH) care of
stroke patients.
SIUH, part of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, has received the
two associations’ Get With The Guidelines–Stroke Gold Plus Quality
Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment and
success in implementing a higher standard of care by ensuring that
stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted
guidelines.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What are those guidelines and why can't survivors see them? With no openness we can't tell if this is a statement of fact or puffery.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“We are dedicated to making our care for stroke
patients among the best in the country. The American Heart Association’s
Get With The Guidelines–Stroke program helps us to accomplish this
goal,” said Dr. Souhel Najjar, director of neurology.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
How do we know if the goal has been accomplished? Or even how hard the goal is? If its not 100% recovery then you should be relieved of duty. Survival of the fittest and all.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
“This recognition
demonstrates that we are on the right track and we’re very proud of our
team.”
Get With The Guidelines–Stroke helps the SIUH staff
develop and implement acute and secondary prevention guideline processes
to improve patient care and outcomes. The program provides hospitals
with a web-based patient management tool, and best practice discharge
protocols and standing orders. It also provides the tools to track
performance.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What is your performance on recovery? Make it public.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“Recent studies show that patients treated in
hospitals participating in the American Heart Association’s Get With The
Guidelines-Stroke program receive a higher quality of care and may
experience better outcomes,” said Dr. Lee H. Schwamm, chair of the Get
With The Guidelines national steering committee and director of the
TeleStroke and Acute Stroke Services at Massachusetts General Hospital
in Boston.
Following Get With The Guidelines-Stroke treatment
guidelines, patients are started on aggressive risk-reduction therapies
including the use of medications, antithrombotics and anticoagulation
therapy, plus cholesterol reducing drugs and smoking cessation
counseling.
Hospitals must adhere to these measures at a set
level for a designated period of time to be eligible for the achievement
awards.
For more information about the Stroke Center at SIUH, call 718-226-9000.
No comments:
Post a Comment