Notice the word 'CARE' NOT RESULTS! In my opinion this is an admission of an incompetent hospital.
Also in my opinion Get With the Guidelines allows stroke hospitals to continue with their tyranny of low expectations and justify their complete failure to get survivors 100% recovered. Prove me wrong, I dare you in my stroke addled mind. If your stroke hospital goal is not 100% recovery you don't have a functioning stroke hospital.
All you ever get from hospitals are that they are following 'Get With the Guidelines'; these are way too static to be of any use. With thousands of pieces of stroke research yearly it would take a Ph.D level research analyst to keep up, create protocols, and train the doctors and therapists in their use.
If your stroke hospital doesn't have that, you don't have a well functioning stroke hospital, you have a dinosaur.
Read
the guidelines yourself here: You'll see they say they improve
outcomes but give no proof that it is happening. I find nothing in here
that states they are even measuring results or recovery. Since neither
seems to occur, it is in my opinion invalid recognition.
“What's measured, improves.” So said management legend and author Peter F. Drucker
Get With The Guidelines® Stroke
Oops, I'm not playing by the polite rules of Dale Carnegie; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'.
Telling supposedly smart stroke medical persons they know nothing about stroke is a no-no even if it is true.
Politeness will never solve anything in stroke. Yes, I'm a bomb thrower and proud of it. Someday a stroke 'leader' will try to ream me out for making them look bad by being truthful, I look forward to that day.
The latest invalid chest thumping here:
Christus Good Shepherd Marshall receives national stroke care recognition
Members of the Christus Good Shepherd stroke care team,
local fire and EMT specialists and more pose together at the Marshall location for the award.
Dr. Joe Bowers speaks to those gathered at the award ceremony on Thursday.
COO Casey Robertson addresses those gathered at the event Thursday.
The Christus Good Shepherd Marshall system held a special recognition ceremony on Thursday this week to honor those members of the hospitals stroke response team, as well as hospital and city’s EMS and fire department who helped the hospital system reach this status.
During the event, community members heard from Dr. Joe Bowers, the head of the Christus stroke response team and a neurology expert, who emphasized the importance of expert stroke care.
“This care is a big deal in our community and in our part of the country as well,” he stated, adding that strokes are the fifth major cause of death in the United States.
Bowers stated that the system was able to receive these awards for two main reasons, the response time between how quickly a stroke patient is identified, treated and transported to the hospital, as well as how consistent and up to date the hospital care of those patients are.
Chief Operating Officer Casey Robertson was also present during the event, presenting awards to both Bryan Wilkinson with systems response team and life flight operations, as well as to members of the Marshall Fire Department, including Chief Reggie Cooper.
Robertson stated that the award would not be possible without the work that both groups do, since they are always the front lines of stroke care before a patient is even transported to the hospital.
“I am proud to be a part of an organization who can achieve these awards with all of our hard work,” Robertson said.
Cooper stated that for the MFD, the biggest aspects of the care is immediate recognition of symptoms, and treating patients on the way to care rather than focusing simply on transport speed.
“I like to say that we take the hospital to you,” Cooper said, “We have everything we need on site, and our people are well trained to recognize and know what needs to be done in an emergency.”
Wilkinson echoed Cooper’s sentiments, stating that keeping in contact with the ER team to be sure the staff is aware of the emergency and prepared to lead to crucial seconds and even minutes reduced from the time it takes to get a stroke patient care.
“When we are notified of a stroke patient, we have our stroke response team ready and waiting in the ER,” said Jill Pyle, the systems stoke program coordinator said, explaining that every second matters when it comes to stroke care.
Using the most up to date medicine and research, Pyle said that the group works to ensure the best care for all patients who enter Christus Good Shepherd.
“You lose 12 million brain cells a minute when you are suffering from a stroke, so every minute, every second matters,” Pyle said.
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