Deans' stroke musings: Christ Hospital receives national award for stroke patient 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.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Christ Hospital receives national award for stroke patient treatment - Jersey City, NJ

These are NOT result awards so they don't tell you anything about how good the program is. Call that hospital president(Peter A. Kelly, President & Chief Executive Officer)

Main telephone number: 877.791.7000

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://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2015/11/christ_hospital_receives_national_award_for_stroke.html
Christ Hospital in Jersey City has been recognized nationally for its work in the field of stroke patient treatment, hospital officials announced.
The CarePoint Health-owned hospital was given the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for its commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized guidelines.
"Christ Hospital is dedicated to improving the quality of stroke care and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke helps us achieve that goal," CarePoint Health CEO Jeff Mandler said in a statement.
Christ Hospital is one of three CarePoint Health hospitals in Hudson County. The other two are Bayonne Medical Center and Hoboken University Medical Center.
To receive the award, a hospital must achieve 85 percent or higher adherence to all Get With The Guidelines-Stroke achievement indicators for two or more consecutive 12-month periods. Those achievement measures are designed to help hospitals give stroke patients the most up-to-date and efficient treatment.
"We are pleased to recognize CarePoint Health Christ Hospital for their commitment to stroke care,"
(Nothing about results) Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt, the national chairman of the Get With The Guidelines steering committee said in a statement.
"Studies have shown that hospitals that consistently follow Get With The Guidelines quality improvement measures can reduce length of stay and 30-day readmission rates and reduce disparities in care."