Deans' stroke musings: Loyola Receives Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for Eighth Year in a Row

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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, May 24, 2016

Loyola Receives Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for Eighth Year in a Row - MAYWOOD, IL

Neither Joint Commission or ASA guidelines tell you anything useful about how well the stroke hospital delivers RESULTS.
Call that hospital executive

Larry M. Goldberg

president and chief executive officer of Loyola University Health System

708-216-5140

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.

You can check out Joint Commission standards here:

http://www.jointcommission.org/assets

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.

The puffery article here: They went for two certs, still nothing on results.http://newswise.com/articles/loyola-receives-stroke-gold-plus-quality-achievement-award-for-eighth-year-in-a-row
For the eighth year in a row, Loyola University Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With the Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.
The award recognizes Loyola’s commitment to providing the most appropriate stroke treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
Loyola also was named to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Target: StrokeSM Honor Roll Elite. To qualify for the Honor Roll, hospitals must meet quality measures developed to reduce the time between the patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-busting IV drug tPA. The drug is used to treat the most common type of stroke, called ischemic, which is caused by a blood clot. If given within 4.5 hours of an ischemic stroke, tPA can significantly reduce the effects of stroke and lessen the chance of permanent disability. Loyola earned the award by meeting quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a set level for a designated period.

Get With The Guidelines® helps hospital care teams ensure the care provided to patients is aligned with the latest research-based guidelines.

Loyola’s Stroke Center offers a nationally recognized team of experts in every facet of stroke-related care, including emergency medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, neurophysiology, neuroradiology, rehabilitative services, social work, pharmacy and specialty nursing.

Loyola’s Stroke Center also has received the Gold Seal of Approval® for stroke care from the Joint Commission.

Loyola’s inpatient rehabilitation stroke specialty program recently was accredited for the third time in a row by CARF International, an independent, nonprofit accrediting body. Achieving accreditation as a stroke specialty program requires a center to meet standards above and beyond those required for accreditation in comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation.