Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Receives National Gold Plus Quality Award for Stroke Treatment for Sixth Year in a Row

 

Anytime I see 'care' or treatment in any stroke press release I know the hospital is not willing to disclose actual results because they are so fucking bad, it wouldn't look good, so misdirection is used. Don't fall for that misdirection!

Big fucking whoopee.

 

 But you tell us NOTHING ABOUT RESULTS. They remind us they 'care' about us multiple times but never tell us how many 100% recovered.  You have to ask yourself why they are hiding their incompetency by not disclosing recovery results.  ARE THEY THAT FUCKING BAD?

Three measurements will tell me if the stroke hospital is possibly not completely incompetent; DO YOU MEASURE ANYTHING?  I would start cleaning the hospital by firing the board of directors, you can't let incompetency continue for years at a time.

There is no quality here if you don't measure the right things.

1. tPA full recovery? Better than 12%?
2. 30 day deaths? Better than competitors?

3. rehab full recovery? Better than 10%?

 

You'll want to know results so call that hospital president(whomever that is) RESULTS are; tPA efficacy, 30 day deaths, 100% recovery. Because there is no point in going to that hospital if they are not willing to publish results.

In my opinion this cert 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 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 up on the guidelines yourself.

“What's measured, improves.” So said management legend and author Peter F. Drucker 

 The latest invalid chest thumping here:

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Receives National Gold Plus Quality Award for Stroke Treatment for Sixth Year in a Row

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines – Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award for its commitment to excellence in stroke care.

 

Get With The Guidelines – Target Stroke is a national hospital program for improving stroke care by promoting consistent adherence to evidence-based practices that lead to optimal patient outcomes. Those outcomes often mean a reduction in permanent disability and deaths.

 

This is the sixth year in a row that CRMC has received the Get With The Guidelines Gold Plus award.

 

Gold Plus-level hospitals must meet rigorous time-sensitive metrics for treating patients experiencing an acute stroke and must follow proper medication use and other key treatments aligned with the most up-to-date stroke care guidelines. This includes educating patients to help them manage their health and recovery at home. 

 

CRMC received the quality award for demonstrating 85 percent compliance in stroke care performance for more than 24 consecutive months.

 

Stroke remains the fifth-leading cause of death and a leading cause of adult disability in the United States. On average, someone in the U.S. has a stroke every 40 seconds, and nearly 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.

 

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, the surrounding brain tissue dies.

 

Early stroke recognition and treatment are key to improving survival, minimizing disability and accelerating recovery times. One way to remember stroke symptoms is to use the “BE FAST” acronym: