Deans' stroke musings: Milford Regional earns Stroke Gold Plus award

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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.

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Milford Regional earns Stroke Gold Plus award - Milford, MA

These are NOT result awards so they don't tell you anything about how good the program is. Call that hospital president( Edward J. Kelly) and demand to know what the RESULTS are; 30 day deaths, 100% recovery.
There is absolutely nothing in here that tells me that the RESULTS are better in this hospital than other hospitals. I don't give a crap about how well you do processes.
Big f*cking whoopee.
Guidelines here: You can see how this is nothing to be impressed about. This is all indirect action, not results.
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthcareResearch/GetWithTheGuidelinesHFStrokeResus/GetWithTheGuidelinesStrokeHomePage/Get-With-The-Guidelines-Stroke-Overview_UCM_308021_Article.jsp

But the puffery article here;
http://www.telegram.com/article/20150621/NEWS/150629969/101009/sports

Milford Regional Medical Center has been given the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With the Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award in recognition of the hospital’s adherence to all Get With the Guidelines-Stroke achievement indicators and quality measures. As a Primary Stroke Center, the hospital has a comprehensive system for rapidly diagnosing and treating stroke patients(So what?).

Milford Regional had to achieve 85 percent or higher adherence to all Get With the Guidelines - Stroke indicators for two or more 12-month periods, and 75 percent or higher compliance with five of the eight Get With the Guidelines - Stroke quality measures.

The quality measures are designed to help hospital teams provide the most up-to-date, evidence-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. The quality measures focus on appropriate use of guideline-based care for stroke patients, including aggressive use of medications such as clot-busting and anti-clotting drugs, blood thinners and cholesterol reducing drugs, preventive action for deep vein thrombosis and smoke cessation counseling.