Notice NOT ONE WORD ABOUT RESULTS. These fuckers seem to think we are stupid enough to praise them for 'care'.
http://www.bayshorebroadcasting.ca/news_item.php?NewsID=90487
A change is coming to how local stroke care is delivered.
The Southwest Stroke Project is moving stroke care from 28 hospitals to just seven.
It's a project within the Southwest
LHIN which oversees Grey Bruce Health Services' hospitals and the South
Bruce Grey Health Centre's hospitals among others in Southwestern
Ontario.
The idea is to create a centre for excellence in stroke and TIA (transient ischemich attack) care.
Those nearest centres will be in Owen Sound, Goderich and London, which are the pre-existing centres now.
Manager of Rehab and Stroke in Owen
Sound, Joan Ruston-Berge says by March, that care will only be available
at those designated centres, meaning for example, people will be either
taken straight to Owen Sound or diagnosed locally, then transferred
there.
If a person has a stroke, health
officials say they'll get the most effective care if treated within
three and a half hours of its onset. The Owen Sound location has a clot
busting drug called tPA that can be used after a CT scan.
Grey Bruce Health Services has a
designated stroke team of experts who can provide acute care, rapid
diagnosis, inpatient rehabilitation, in community rehabilitation, and a
number of differently therapies.
Ruston-Berge says they include speech
therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, a dietician, social
worker, nurse practitioner and stroke education.
The Southwest Stroke Project has two
phases, the first being the change of care locations and the second will
be to make recommendations to enhance stroke care in those centres.
That will likely involve secondary stroke prevention, outpatient and community rehabilitation and stroke recovery services.
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