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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.

Monday, July 23, 2018

Wife of Wall Street executive who suffered stroke revamps Roper's rehab floor

Email being sent to the reporter to try to contact Wendy Wellin. 
https://www.postandcourier.com/features/wife-of-wall-street-executive-who-suffered-stroke-revamps-roper/article_1d401aca-89f9-11e8-becb-2f5867765702.html

Dressed in all white, Wendy Wellin walks the halls of the new rehabilitation facility she and her late husband invested $1 million in, pointing out every carefully considered detail. 
The walls are bleach white. The rooms are spacious, and there's art and a new TV hanging in each one. Tracks installed in the ceiling will allow patients in rehabilitation to lift themselves and move with dignity. 
Wellin and her husband, philanthropist and Wall Street executive Keith Wellin, first had the idea for the project when he was recovering from a stroke on Roper St. Francis' rehabilitation floor. 
"I had really good training about how to get things done. I'm dangerous," she said with a grin. 
The new floor, located inside Roper Hospital, will boast brand-new equipment, including a visual therapy device and a simulator that retrains patients how to get in and out of a car, for example.
Even as the finishing touches were being put on the new floor, Wellin was adding items to the list. She wants full-length mirrors hanging on the bathroom doors, for instance. The order of the names on a placard needed to be switched.
In her husband's last years, the new stroke center became something of a project for the couple. He would spent two-and-a-half months in the hospital following his stroke. But the pair had a handful of other projects before the stroke center.
The Wellins retired to the Lowcountry in 2005. They donated millions to local hospitals, including a multimillion-dollar gift to build the Wendy and Keith Wellin Head and Neck Oncology Center, which opened in 2016 at the Medical University of South Carolina's Hollings Cancer Center. They also have made major donations outside the Lowcountry. 
The stroke center will have a new physician leader. The rest of the staff will be shifted around from other parts of Roper Hospital. 
“Last year we admitted 400 patients to Roper Rehab who were recovering from stroke,” said Troy Powell, director of Roper Rehab, in a press release. “It’s difficult to think that it’s that prevalent in our area, but through the generosity of those involved in this project, we’re happy to offer the services they need to do the things they need to go home.”
There will be 14 additional private rooms with the opening of the new center. 
The rehabilitation facility also fits in with Roper St. Francis' recent efforts to launch an advanced stroke team. A partnership with MUSC aims to improve resource sharing between the two systems and ultimately bring down stroke response times. 
Wellin, whose husband died of leukemia in 2014, addressed donors and hospital leaders earlier this summer. The unit will open in August.
"Now I have to figure out what I want to do next," she said.

Reach Mary Katherine Wildeman at 843-937-5594. Follow her on Twitter @mkwildeman.

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