Deans' stroke musings: Gloucestershire hospital opens new rehab unit to benefit stroke patients

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.

What this blog is for:

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.

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Gloucestershire hospital opens new rehab unit to benefit stroke patients

Notice they tell you nothing on the results they expect to achieve or the protocols they will be using. So status quo, meaning 90% failure rate to get to full recovery, NSA statistic. And a 88% failure rate on full recovery using tPA.

Makes you feel tingly and wonderful all over, doesn't it? But they will take care of you.

Gloucestershire hospital opens new rehab unit to benefit stroke patients

7th February 2019 Gloucestershire hospital opens new rehab unit to benefit stroke patients2019-02-07T14:04:14+00:00 Charities & organisations, Newsroom, NHS

Vale Community Hospital stroke rehabilitation unit opening image — *Credit: The Gazette*

Launched on the 4^th of February, a new specialist stroke rehabilitation is now open at the Vale Community Hospital in Dursley, Gloucestershire.
Located within the Peak View Ward at the Hospital, the special inpatient unit aims to bridge the current gap in post-stroke care in Gloucestershire, allowing people who have suffered a stroke to have the best possible recovery.
The rehabilitation unit has been set up for for patients who no longer need specialist medical care at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital but still require stroke rehabilitation that cannot be delivered at home.
Featuring 14 specialist stroke beds and six general community beds, the unit is staffed by a multidisciplinary team including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists (OTs), rehabilitation assistants and hotel services.
Professional Head of Adult Physiotherapy in Gloucestershire Care Services Sarah Morton told the Gazette: “The Specialist Stroke Rehabilitation Unit came about following the findings of an NHS Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group review, which examined the stroke rehabilitation pathways in Gloucestershire.
“The report concluded that although there were lots of elements of really good service provision within the county, there wasn’t a seamless pathway for stroke rehabilitation.
“The stroke unit at The Vale is a centralised, co-ordinated unit where we can focus our resources. The development of this unit has been a result of collaborative partnership working between commissioners and clinicians from Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, community organisations, patient representatives and a range of key stakeholders.
“By providing a community bed-based service here at Vale Community Hospital, we aim to continue the rehabilitation journey for patients following a stroke in a suitable, fit-for-purpose environment.
“When patients no longer need inpatient specialist stroke rehabilitation, and if it is safe and effective for them to have rehabilitation in their own home, they will receive ongoing support from community stroke specialist nurses or the early supported discharge (ESD) community team, including community stroke specialist nurses, specialist therapists and rehabilitation assistants.”