Deans' stroke musings: National Hospital Network Launches Campaign to Educate Consumers about When to Choose Inpatient Rehabilitation vs. a Nursing Home

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.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

National Hospital Network Launches Campaign to Educate Consumers about When to Choose Inpatient Rehabilitation vs. a Nursing Home

YOU ask them whether or not they have full recovery for stroke survivors better than 10%. That is the only question to ask, do not let them deflect to other crap.
RESULTS, RESULTS, RESULTS.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141210006215/en/National-Hospital-Network-Launches-Campaign-Educate-Consumers#.VIi4lWPYt8A
Select Medical, one of the nation’s leading networks of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, has launched an educational campaign to help consumers understand the benefits of an inpatient rehabilitation hospital vs. a nursing home. The campaign is entitled “The Right Choice. The Right Setting. The Right Outcome.”

“The Right Choice. The Right Setting. The Right Outcome.”

People who go to an inpatient rehabilitation hospital after they have had a serious stroke, brain injury, or spinal cord injury go home sooner, have a better quality of life, and live longer than patients who go to a nursing home, according to a Dobson DaVanzo & Associates study commissioned by the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association. Yet many Americans do not know what an inpatient rehabilitation hospital is, nor do they understand its value in treating neurological conditions and diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis.
“We want consumers to know that if they or a loved one ever have stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, or other neurological conditions, where they go to receive medical care and rehabilitation — and how quickly they begin their treatment — makes all the difference in the quality of their recovery,” says Dr. Bruce M. Gans, Select Medical’s national medical director for rehabilitation.
“For many people,” he adds, “that means going to an inpatient rehabilitation hospital rather than a nursing home to ensure the best possible outcome. That’s because inpatient rehabilitation hospitals specialize in rehabilitation and have the training and experience in successfully treating even the most complex medical conditions.”
Information in both English and Spanish is available at therightchoiceforrehab.com or by calling 1-844-88BRAIN, a toll-free helpline staffed by healthcare professionals to answer questions and refer people to the nearest, appropriate setting.
The Select Medical network includes Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey, ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the nation’s number two rehab hospital. Other partners in the network include Baylor Scott & White Health, OhioHealth, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Scottsdale Healthcare, and SSM Health Care in the Midwest, among others. Cleveland Clinic, PinnacleHealth System, TriHealth, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA Health have all announced plans to join the network within the next 18 months with jointly owned, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals.