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.

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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.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Florida Hospital Tampa Earns Advanced Certification for Heart Failure and Primary Stroke Center Certification from The Joint Commission

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.

1 comment:

  1. 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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