Deans' stroke musings: Dunklau Gardens to Participate in Post-Acute Care Standards Initiative for 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.

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Dunklau Gardens to Participate in Post-Acute Care Standards Initiative for Stroke Patients - Fremont, Nebraska

WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! Survivors don't want 'care you blithering idiots. They want RECOVERY AND RESULTS! GET THERE!

In my opinion this is an incompetent hospital, you shouldn't go there until they have a plan for 100% recovery.

Dunklau Gardens to Participate in Post-Acute Care Standards Initiative for Stroke Patients

June 14th, 2023 | Methodist Fremont Health

FREMONT – Dunklau Gardens will participate in the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline Stroke Post-Acute Care (PAC) initiative to enhance guideline-based care for stroke patients, ultimately improving and prolonging lives.

Evidence-based rehabilitation and secondary prevention interventions improve recovery after a stroke and reduce secondary complications. However, stroke rehabilitation expertise, processes of care and educational resources vary among sites where PAC is delivered. The American Heart Association, the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all, developed quality standards based on its 2016 Guidelines for Adult Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery to address these gaps.

“We’re committed to improving patient care by adhering to the latest guidelines,” said Jayma Brown, BSN, RN, MHA, NE-BC, director of long-term care nursing at Dunklau Gardens. “The post-acute care standards initiative makes it easier for our teams to put proven knowledge and guidelines to work on a daily basis, which studies show can help patients recover better. The end goal is to ensure that more people in Dodge County and the surrounding areas can experience longer, healthier lives.”

Facilities participating in the PAC standards initiative receive a participation stipend and site-specific quality improvement support and process improvement ideas surrounding quality standards for stroke recovery, rehabilitation and secondary prevention. Facilities also have the opportunity to be part of a learning collaborative, working with experts in stroke rehabilitation to build tools and share and create best practices. Participation improves collaboration between PAC facilities and others involved in stroke care, including hospitals and outpatient providers.

Participation in the program benefits stroke patients and caregivers with the knowledge that the facility is committed to providing services supported by American Heart Association science. They also have the assurance that the facility is collaborating with the association on standardizing its stoke rehabilitation program in alignment with expert guidance and evidence-based research.

Stroke is the No. 5 cause of death and a leading cause of disability in the U.S. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked by a clot or bursts. When that happens, part of the brain cannot get the blood and oxygen it needs, so brain cells die. Early stroke detection and treatment are key to improving survival, minimizing disability and accelerating recovery times.

Mission: Lifeline Stroke is the American Heart Association’s community-based initiative to develop systems of care to improve outcomes for stroke patients. Made possible with a $1.5 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, the PAC initiative will implement the newly developed American Heart Association Post-Acute Stroke Care Quality Standards program in rehabilitation facilities across Montana, Nebraska and North Dakota. The initiative has a goal of giving all patients the best chance at independent lives after stroke.

This work builds on the Mission: Lifeline Stroke Nebraska initiative launched in 2019. The new initiative is the first to implement the Post-Acute Stroke Care Quality Standards program developed and tested in Montana. Larger rehabilitation hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and critical access hospitals in rural and urban areas are eligible to participate.