Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

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.

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Bon Secours St. Francis awarded for stroke care

Big Whoopee.So what if they improved the processes, they don't tell you the full recovery percentages which is the ONLY measure needed. God I hate these press releases, they tell you less than nothing, they are only meant to confuse.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/midlothianexchange/county-news/business/bon-secours-st-francis-awarded-for-stroke-care/article_b65e89cc-efc0-11e2-9a99-001a4bcf6878.html
Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center has received national recognition from the American Stroke Association for excellence in stroke care.
The “Get With The Guidelines-Stroke” Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and “Target: Stroke” Honor Roll designation are awarded to hospitals that have implemented a set of stroke treatment standards and protocols.

To receive the Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, St. Francis achieved 85 percent or higher adherence to all award indicators for two or more consecutive 12-month intervals and achieved 75 percent or higher compliance with six of 10 reporting initiatives to measure quality of care.
These measures include aggressive use of medications, such as antithrombotics, anticoagulation therapy, deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis, cholesterol reducing drugs and smoking cessation, all aimed at reducing death and disability and improving the lives of stroke patients.
In addition, St. Francis Medical Center has also been recognized as a recipient of the “Target: Stroke” Honor Roll, for improving stroke care. In a three month period, at least 50 percent of the hospital’s eligible stroke patients have received a key clot-busting medicine called tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, within 60 minutes of arriving at the hospital (known as ‘door-to-needle’ time). Since January 1, St. Francis has achieved door-to-needle times of less than 60 minutes in 80 percent of eligible stroke cases. If given intravenously in the first three hours after the start of stroke symptoms, the medicine has been shown to significantly reverse the effects of stroke and reduce permanent disability.
“These recognitions demonstrate St. Francis Medical Center’s commitment to being one of the top hospitals in the country for providing aggressive, proven stroke care,” said Mark Gordon, CEO, Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center. “We will continue to provide the best care possible to quickly and efficiently treat stroke patients.”
Through “Get With The Guidelines–Stroke,” customized patient education materials are made available upon release from the hospital, based on patients’ individual risk profiles. The take-away materials are written in an easy-to-understand format and are available in English and Spanish. In addition, the Get With The Guidelines Patient Management Tool gives healthcare providers access to up-to-date cardiovascular and stroke science while they are working with patients.
According to the American Stroke Association, stroke is one of the leading causes of death and serious, long-term disability in the United States. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies of a stroke every four minutes; and 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.
“Get With The Guidelines” is the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s hospital-based quality improvement program that empowers healthcare teams to save lives and reduce healthcare costs by helping hospitals follow evidence-based guidelines and recommendations. For more information, visit heart.org/quality.

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