Big Whoopee. Look at the bolded lines and ask yourself if any of that objectively
proves that they know how to get patients to 100% recovery? Ask what their expertise in stroke care translates to in 30-day deaths and 100% recovery. Nothing they are measuring is useful. You measure endpoints, not processes. Stupidity rules once again.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11205601.htm
Florida Hospital Tampa
has earned advanced certification for heart failure and primary stroke
center designation from The Joint Commission, in conjunction with the
American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association, by
demonstrating compliance with the Joint Commission’s national standards
for quality care and safety in disease-specific care. The certification
award recognizes Florida Hospital Tampa’s dedication to continuous
compliance with the Joint Commission’s state-of-the-art standards.
Florida Hospital Tampa earned these two distinctions after the Joint
Commission, conducted an on-site review in July of 2013.
"In achieving Joint Commission advanced certification, Florida
Hospital Tampa has demonstrated its commitment to the highest level of
care for its patients. Certification is a voluntary process and I
commend Florida Hospital Tampa for successfully undertaking this
challenge to elevate its standard of care and instill confidence in the
community it serves," said Jean Range, M.S., R.N., C.P.H.Q. Executive
Director, Disease-Specific Care Certification, the Joint Commission.
Florida Hospital Tampa is one of only five hospitals in the state of
Florida to receive this advanced heart failure certification, through
the efforts of the renowned Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute. The
primary stroke center certification compliments Florida Hospital Tampa’s
comprehensive stroke center designation from the Florida Agency for
Health Care Administration (AHCA) in August of 2012. "Heart disease and
stroke represent the #1 and #4 causes of death in the U.S., so achieving
Joint Commission certification in our heart failure and stroke programs
is a major step toward continually raising the bar for the care we
provide to our community," said John Harding, President and CEO of
Florida Hospital Tampa. "Joint Commission certification helps to affirm
our expertise in heart and stroke care, as well as the state-of-the-art,
advanced level of care our patients can expect at Florida Hospital
Tampa."
The Joint Commission’s Advanced Certification in Heart Failure
Program is designed to target methods of providing safe, successful
transitions of care as the patient moves from the inpatient setting to
an outpatient setting. The heart failure requirements were developed in
consultation with an external task force of experts and organizations
with expertise in heart failure care, including representatives from the
American Heart Association. In order for a heart failure program to
receive advanced certification, it must comply with the Joint
Commission’s standards for disease-specific care and must include either
a hospital-based and hospital-owned outpatient heart failure clinic or
have a collaborative relationship with one of more attending cardiology
practices. Advanced certification also requires that a program collect
data on the four Joint Commission core measures for heart failure and
use this information for ongoing performance improvement efforts.
The Joint Commission’s Primary Stroke Center Certification program
was developed in collaboration with the American Stroke Association. It
is based on the Brain Attack Coalition’s "Recommendations for the
Establishment of Primary Stroke Centers." Achievement of certification
signifies that the services Florida Hospital Tampa provides meet
critical elements to achieve long-term success in improving outcomes.
The Florida Hospital Tampa Stroke Program already carries the
designation as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by AHCA, and this
certification by the Joint Commission further solidifies Florida
Hospital Tampa’s excellence and expertise in stroke care. The Joint
Commission’s Disease-Specific Care Certification Program launched in
2002. It is designed to evaluate clinical programs across the continuum
of care. Certification requirements address three core areas: compliance
with consensus-based national standards; effective use of
evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to manage and optimize care;
and an organized approach to performance measurement and improvement
activities.
Use the labels in the right column to find what you want. Or you can go thru them one by one, there are only 28,972 posts. Searching is done in the search box in upper left corner. I blog on anything to do with stroke.DO NOT DO ANYTHING SUGGESTED HERE AS I AM NOT MEDICALLY TRAINED, YOUR DOCTOR IS, LISTEN TO THEM. BUT I BET THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET YOU 100% RECOVERED. I DON'T EITHER, BUT HAVE PLENTY OF QUESTIONS FOR YOUR DOCTOR TO ANSWER.
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.
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My best friend lives in Tampa and I go there a couple times a year. I think I have a visit to make during my next trip to Tampa.
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