Deans' stroke musings: Stamford Hospital Earns National Award For Stroke Treatment

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, September 14, 2015

Stamford Hospital Earns National Award For Stroke Treatment - STAMFORD, Conn

These are NOT result awards so they don't tell you anything about how good the program is. Call that hospital president(Brian Grissler, President & Chief Executive Officer) (203)-276-1000; general number and demand to know what the RESULTS are; 30 day deaths, 100% recovery, tPA efficacy?
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

The puffery article here:
http://stamford.dailyvoice.com/business/stamford-hospital-earns-national-award-for-stroke-treatment/586100/
Stamford Hospital has received the Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
This distinction recognizes the hospital's commitment and success in ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment, according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines established based on the latest scientific evidence.
"Our goal is to evaluate acute stroke patients quickly but thoroughly. We aim to provide rapid diagnosis and therapy to minimize the likelihood of loss of brain function," said Louise Resor, director of neurology and medical director of the stroke program at Stamford Hospital, in a press release. The award is a testament to the dedication of the stroke team to ensuring comprehensive diagnostic assessment on admission and up-to-date care of our stroke patients during their hospital stay."
To earn the Gold Quality Achievement Award, Stamford Hospital achieved 85 percent or higher adherence to all Get With The Guidelines-Stroke achievement indicators for two or more consecutive 12-month periods.
These 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, according to a press release. They focus on the 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 smoking cessation counseling, according to a press release.
According to the AHA/ASA, stroke is the fifth cause of death and a leading cause of adult disability in the United States. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds and dies of a stroke every four minutes. More than 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.