Deans' stroke musings: St. Joseph Mercy Oakland wins national award for stroke care

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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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, August 6, 2018

St. Joseph Mercy Oakland wins national award for stroke care

SO FUCKING WHAT? 'Care' NOT RESULTS. Do stroke hospitals think we are that fucking stupid that we don't notice that this tells us nothing about the quality of their stroke department? Not even outcome measures, just measuring compliance to guidelines.

St. Joseph Mercy Oakland wins national award for stroke care

St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital won the national 2018 Get with the Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.

The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association presented the award to hospital president Shannon Striebich on July 26.

The Gold Plus recognition is the highest award offered by American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for stroke care. St. Joseph Mercy Oakland was selected for its commitment to ensuring that stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

St. Joseph Mercy Oakland was also recognized with the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus Award. To qualify for this recognition, the hospital met quality measures developed to reduce the time between a patient’s arrival at the hospital and their treatment with the clot-buster tissue plasminogen activator, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke.(So every patient could die and you would still consider your stroke department a success if time measures were met?)

According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is the number five cause of death and a leading cause of adult disability in the United States. On average, someone in the United States suffers a stroke every 40 seconds and nearly 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.