Cottage Health Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara receive stroke care recognition

Anytime I see 'care' 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:

 

Cottage Health Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara receive stroke care recognition

Cottage Health of Santa Barbara and the Santa Ynez Valley are recipients of an American Heart Association "Get With The Guidelines" achievement award for their demonstrated commitment to research-based guidelines for the treatment of stroke.

The guidelines are said to lead to more lives saved, shorter recovery times and fewer readmissions to the hospital.

“We are proud our team is being recognized for the important work we do every day to improve the lives of people in Santa Barbara County and along the Central Coast who are affected by stroke, giving them the best possible chance of recovery and survival,” said Dr. Philip Delio, medical director of the Stroke Program at Cottage Health.

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital received a "Stroke Rural Bronze" award for its efforts in optimizing stroke care and striving to eliminate rural health care outcome disparities, a hospital spokeswoman said. Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital was also recognized, receiving a "Stroke Gold Plus" and Stroke Elite Honor Roll award for its efforts in ensuring stroke patients have access to best practices and life-saving care.

According to research, every 40 seconds someone in the U.S. has a stroke or heart attack — and heart disease and stroke are the No. 1 and No. 5 causes of death in the United States.