Deans' stroke musings: Post-acute stroke initiative to invest $1.5M across facilities in three Mountain states

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.

Saturday, November 12, 2022

Post-acute stroke initiative to invest $1.5M across facilities in three Mountain states

This is not going to do one fucking bit of good unless YOU get involved and demand that recovery and results are required uses of the money. RECOVERY AND RESULTS not 'care'

Post-acute stroke initiative to invest $1.5M across facilities in three Mountain states

Alicia Lasek

October 31, 2022

Closeup of doctor viewing brain scan images

The American Heart Association has launched an $1.5 million initiative to improve post-acute stroke care across Montana, Nebraska and North Dakota, including skilled nursing facilities.

The initiative will offer the new American Heart Association Post-Acute Stroke Care Quality Standards program to all urban and rural rehabilitation facilities across the three states, with funding provided by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, AHA announced Thursday.

“Adoption of the program will maximize recovery of function lost during a stroke, reduce risk of secondary effects and extend high quality guideline-directed care for all patients across their full stroke journey,” the organization stated.

The program is the implementation of the AHA’s Mission: Lifeline Stroke initiative, which launched in 2018 in an effort to more smoothly connect the components of acute stroke care to improve stroke patients’ long-term outcomes. Program measures were piloted in Montana starting in 2020. Along with LTC settings, rehabilitation hospitals and critical access hospitals will be included in the new state projects.

Closing care gaps(Wrong, wrong, wrong! Close recovery gaps!)

The new initiative will help healthcare providers offer up-to-date, evidenced-based care “to improve recovery and reduce disability after experiencing a stroke,” said Joel Stein, MD, volunteer co-chair of the AHA’s standards writing committee and physiatrist-in-chief and chair of the Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Irving, CA.

“Targeted, high-quality post-stroke rehabilitation interventions, customized to patient needs, can dramatically improve recovery of function lost during a stroke, but current gaps in the system of care can lead to high rates of hospital readmissions, variability in care coordination and sub-optimal outcomes for patients,” he said.