1. Nothing on 100% recovery statistics.
2. Nothing on 30-day deaths compared to other hospitals.
3. Nothing on the efficacy of their stroke rehab protocols.
4. Nothing on tPA full efficacy.
5. Nothing on their misdiagnosis percentage of strokes, especially young strokes.
Guidelines prove nothing.
You can't get better at anything unless you measure it. You don't measure processes you measure results.
Guidelines prove nothing.
You'll want to know results so Call that
Interim RMC President and CEO
( Bert Whitaker)general number (803) 533-2200 and demand to know what the RESULTS are; tPA efficacy, 30 day deaths, 100% recovery, misdiagnosis percentage.
Big fucking 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://thetandd.com/news/rmc-listed-award-winning-hospital-in-u-s-news-and/article_906a4de7-9cc0-53a1-b6e3-839082c4f162.html
The Regional Medical Center has been
recognized by the American Heart Association and the American Stroke
Association for excellence in Heart Failure, Stroke and Resuscitation in
U.S. News & World Report’s national listing of award-winning
hospitals, “The Hospital Around the Corner.”
“RMC
is dedicated to quality patient care and positive patient outcomes.
These awards reflect that dedication, and the community can be proud
that RMC has received national recognition from both the American Heart
Association and the American Stroke Association,” Interim RMC President
& CEO Bert Whitaker said.
Each
year, the AHA/ASA recognize participating hospitals that demonstrate
high commitment to following guidelines shown to improve patient
outcomes. In 2017, RMC received the Heart Failure GOLD PLUS Achievement
Award, the Stroke GOLD PLUS Achievement Award and the Resuscitation
SILVER Achievement Award. RMC also received the Target: Heart Failure
Honor Roll and the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite designations.
Get
With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure is a quality improvement program
that helps hospital teams follow the most up-to-date, research-based
standards with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing hospital
re-admissions for heart failure patients. According to the AHA, about
5.7 million adults in the United States suffer from heart failure, with
the number expected to rise to 8 million by 2030.
RMC
earned the GOLD PLUS recognition by meeting specific quality
achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure
patients. These measures include evaluation of the patient, proper use
of medications and aggressive risk-reduction therapies, such as ACE
inhibitors/ARBs, beta-blockers, diuretics, anticoagulants and other
appropriate therapies. Before patients are discharged, they receive
education on managing their heart failure and overall health, and are
scheduled for follow-up appointments. 2017 marks the fifth consecutive
year that RMC has received the Heart Failure GOLD PLUS Achievement
Award.
RMC also received the
association’s Target: Heart FailureSM Honor Roll. Target: Heart Failure
is an initiative that provides hospitals with educational tools,
prevention programs and treatment guidelines designed to reduce the
possibility of heart failure patients ending up back in the hospital.
Hospitals are required to meet criteria that improves medication
adherence, provides early follow-up care and coordination and enhances
patient education. The goal is to reduce hospital re-admissions and help
patients improve their quality of life in managing this chronic
condition. RMC has received this designation for four consecutive years.
In addition to the heart failure
award, RMC also received recognition from the ASA for stroke care for a
fifth year. The Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke GOLD PLUS Quality
Achievement Award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to providing the
most appropriate stroke treatment according to nationally recognized,
research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
Hospitals must achieve 85 percent or higher of all Get With The
Guidelines-Stroke achievement standards for two or more consecutive
12-month periods and achieve 75 percent or higher compliance with five
of eight Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Quality measures to earn the
GOLD PLUS recognition.
The RMC
stroke care program also qualified for the Target: Stroke Honor Roll
Elite for the second year in a row. To earn this designation, RMC met
quality measures(So what? Results? Full recovery?) developed to reduce the time between the patient’s
arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-buster tissue
plasminogen activator, or tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke. If given intravenously
within the first three hours after the start of stroke symptoms, tPA
can significantly reduce the effects of stroke and lessen the chance of
permanent disability.
RMC
received a new award for 2017, the Get With The
Guidelines®-Resuscitation Silver Award, for implementing specific
quality improvement measures outlined by the AHA for the treatment of
patients who suffer cardiac arrests in the hospital.
“This
program helps us save lives by using evidence-based guidelines for
inpatient CPR and allows us to track and measure our continuous quality
improvement in resuscitation,” said Indun Whetsell, RN, director of
Quality Management and Medical Staff Services at RMC.
More
than 200,000 adults and children have an in-hospital cardiac arrest
each year, according to the AHA. The Get With The
Guidelines®-Resuscitation program was developed with the goal to save
lives of those who experience in-hospital cardiac arrests through
consistently following the most up-to-date research-based guidelines for
treatment. Guidelines include following protocols for patient safety,
medical emergency team response, effective and timely resuscitation
(CPR) and post-resuscitation care.
RMC
received the resuscitation award for meeting specific measures in
treating adult patients who suffer in-hospital cardiac arrests. To
receive this award, a hospital must comply with the quality measures for
one year.
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