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.
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
You'll' want to know results so Call that President & Chief Executive Officer (Steven A. Rose, RN, MN)
general number 302-629-6611 and demand to know what the RESULTS are; tPA efficacy, 30 day deaths, 100% recovery, misdiagnosis percentage.
Big fucking whoopee.
The puffery article here:
http://www.capegazette.com/affiliate-post/nanticoke-memorial-hospital-receives-get-guidelines%E2%80%94stroke-gold-plus-quality-a/145549
SEAFORD, DELAWARE―Nanticoke
Memorial Hospital received the American Heart Association/American
Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality
Achievement Award with Target: Stroke℠ Honor Roll Elite. The 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.
To receive the Gold Plus Quality
Achievement Award, hospitals must achieve 85 percent or higher adherence
to all Get With The Guidelines-Stroke achievement indicators 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 receive the Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.
To qualify for the Target: Stroke Honor
Roll Elite, hospitals must meet quality measures developed to reduce the
time between the patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with
the clot-buster tissue plasminogen activator, Activase, the only drug
approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic
stroke. If given intravenously in the first three hours after the start
of stroke symptoms, Activase has been shown to significantly reduce the
effects of stroke and lessen the chance of permanent disability.
Nanticoke Memorial Hospital earned this award by meeting specific
quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke
patients at a set level for a designated period.
These quality measures are designed to
help hospital teams follow the most up-to-date, evidence-based
guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and
disability for stroke patients.
“A stroke patient loses 1.9 million
neurons each minute stroke treatment is delayed. This recognition
further demonstrates our commitment to delivering advanced stroke
treatments to patients quickly and safely,” said Steven Rose, RN, MN,
President and CEO of Nanticoke Health Services. “Nanticoke Memorial
Hospital continues to strive for excellence in the acute treatment of
stroke patients. The recognition from the American Heart
Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke
further reinforces our team’s hard work.”
Nanticoke Memorial Hospital has also met
specific scientific guidelines as a Primary Stroke Center, featuring a
comprehensive system for rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke
patients admitted to the emergency department.
“The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association
recognize Nanticoke Memorial Hospital for its commitment to stroke
care,” said Paul Heidenreich, MD, MS, national chairman of the Get With
The Guidelines Steering Committee and Professor of Medicine at Stanford
University. “Research has shown there are benefits to patients who are
treated at hospitals that have adopted the Get With The Guidelines
program.”
Nanticoke Health Services
includes Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, the Nanticoke Physician Network
and the Nanticoke Health Foundation. Nanticoke Memorial Hospital was the
first hospital on Delmarva to receive a 4-star rating from the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services and is the only hospital in Delaware
and Maryland to be nationally recognized by Healthgrades with both the
Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ and the Patient Safety Excellence
Award™. Nanticoke holds a Level III Trauma Center certification, is
nationally certified by the Joint Commission as a Primary Stroke Center,
and is a Gold Plus Award performer according to the American
Heart/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® program.
Nanticoke’s Cancer Care Services holds Accreditation from the American
College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and is a member of the
Association of Community Cancer Centers. Nanticoke’s medical staff
includes over 160 health care providers practicing in 40 different
specialties including the 45 providers employed within the Nanticoke
Physician Network. For more information, visit www.nanticoke.org.
About Get With The Guidelines®
Get With The Guidelines® is the American
Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s hospital-based quality
improvement program that provides hospitals with tools and resources to
increase adherence to the latest research-based guidelines. Developed
with the goal of saving lives and hastening recovery, Get With The
Guidelines has touched the lives of more than 6 million patients since
2001. For more information, visit heart.org.
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