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.

Monday, December 23, 2013

Minnesota Stroke System is set to launch in 2014

Contact them and  demand to know what acute therapies are being provided in the first week other than the failure of tPA. 10% full recovery is a complete failure. What are their plans to get to 100% recovery? Its only possible if you try, but I bet they won't even try. Lazy bastards.
Existing standards for care are a failure, they need to know that. So tell them.
Minnesota Stroke System 
Minnesota Stroke SystemThe Minnesota Stroke System is set to launch in 2014. The first phase of the system is for the MDH to designate hospitals and emergency centers according to their level of acute stroke care. Participation in the system is voluntary. We intend for every acute care hospital and emergency center in the state to participate in order to ensure high quality stroke care for all Minnesotans. All acute care hospitals and emergency centers are eligible to apply for designation. 

We are committed to supporting hospitals to become designated. We are hosting workshops, created a toolkit and a how-to guide for applying, and we will be hosting a webinar in February to talk about the designation process. We also created a newsletter, which is attached. To find out more, please contact health.stroke@state.mn.us or visit our website. Please watch for more announcements through this newsletter and other communications.


Statewide Quality Reporting  
 HealthReformAll acute care hospitals in Minnesota are required to submit data on health care measures as part of the Health Reform Act of 2008. This year, for stroke, the "Door to imaging performed" measure will continue to be reported, and a new measure, "Time to IV Thrombolytic Therapy" will also be required. These data must be submitted on all eligible patient cases starting July 1, 2013. Please visit the MDH health reform website to get more information about or to report your data. There will be a webinar on Jan 8 at 2 pm hosted by Stratis Health to review general reporting requirements with a special section on stroke measures. See info below in the Webinars section.

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