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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.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Prestigious Joint Commission Certifies Overlook Medical Center as Top Comprehensive Stroke Center - Summit, NJ



Big f*cking whoopee.
The joint commission may consider themselves prestigious but I consider them pretty worthless for stroke.  I hate these backpatting displays. Nothing in here says the
RESULTS were better.
Call the hospital president(
Joseph A. Trunfio, PhD) and demand better stroke results than this crap.

You can check out Joint Commission standards here:
 I saw absolutely nothing about what should be done the first week or anything about measuring 30-day deaths and 100% recovery.  God, these people are worse than worthless. Complacent good-for-nothings.
https://tapinto.net/articles/prestigious-joint-commission-certifies-overlook-m 
Overlook Medical Center has been recognized by The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association as meeting The Joint Commission’s standards for Disease-Specific Care Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification. Comprehensive Stroke Centers are recognized as industry leaders and are responsible for setting the national agenda in highly-specialized stroke care.
The prestigious recognition puts Overlook in an elite group of providers, just 82 in the entire United States, focused on complex stroke care. And every single one is failing because they don't measure and report on results. Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification recognizes those hospitals that have state-of-the-art infrastructure, staff and training to receive and treat patients with the most complex strokes.

Overlook Medical Center underwent a rigorous onsite review in October 2014. Joint Commission experts reviewed Overlook Medical Center’s compliance with the Comprehensive Stroke Center standards and requirements including advanced imaging capabilities, 24/7 availability of specialized treatments, and staff with the unique education and competencies to care for complex stroke patients.

"By achieving this advanced certification, Overlook Medical Center has thoroughly demonstrated the greatest level of commitment to the care(not results) of its patients with a complex stroke condition,” says Mark R. Chassin, M.D., FACP, M.P.P., M.P.H., president, The Joint Commission. “Certification is a voluntary process and The Joint Commission commends Overlook Medical Center for successfully undertaking this challenge to elevate the standard of its care for the community it serves.”

The Joint Commission certification is the most recent recognition in a prestigious list of accolades: Overlook Medical Center was the first hospital to receive Comprehensive Stroke Center designation from the state of New Jersey and its stroke program is a recipient of the Get With the Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award, placing its stroke program in the top five percent in the country by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association. Overlook Medical Center is also recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a “Best Regional Hospital” for stroke and for Neurology & Neurosurgery, among other specialties.

“The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association congratulates Overlook Medical Center on its Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification,” commented Mark J. Alberts, M.D., FAHA, American Heart Association/American Stroke Association spokesperson and incoming Vice-Chair of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. “Comprehensive Stroke Centers offer a high level of care for patients with the most severe and challenging types of strokes and cerebrovascular disease.”

“This accomplishment represents the finest example to date of the commitment and dedication of the hundreds of individuals who make up this team, and of Atlantic Health System, to provide the very best of care to neuroscience patients,” said John Halperin, M.D., chair of neurosciences at Overlook Medical Center and medical director, Atlantic Neuroscience Institute, Atlantic Health System. “Overlook Medical Center has created a multidisciplinary center of excellence for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with the full range of neurologic disorders.”

In 2014, Overlook Medical Center endovascular surgeons treated 109 patients with subarachnoid hemorrhages (a bleeding in the space between the brain and the surrounding membrane); that is more than five times the Joint Commission’s minimum requirement of 20 cases per year.

Overlook Medical Center is the first in New Jersey to outfit its ambulance fleet with tele-stroke video cameras enabling hospital-based stroke teams to evaluate patients in transit.  The Overlook Medical Center stroke team exceeds the national standard of a 60-minute intravenous t-PA treatment time (defined as the time from when a patient arrives in the emergency department, is evaluated, and treated with a potentially lifesaving clot-busting medication) with 66% of patients treated with the clot-busting drug within 45 minutes, and the quickest time of 13 minutes.

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