Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare facilities receive national recognition for prioritizing quality care for stroke patients

Anytime I see 'care' in any 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:

 

Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare facilities receive national recognition for prioritizing quality care for stroke patients

Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare facilities are being recognized by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for providing quality care to stroke patients.

Del Sol Medical Center and Las Palmas Medical Center received the associations’ Get With The Guidelines® – Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award for their commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines. Both facilities also received the Association’s Target: Stroke℠ Honor Roll Elite Plus award and Target: Type 2 Diabetes℠ Honor Roll award.

 

Stroke is the No. 5 cause of death and a leading cause of disability in the U.S. On average, someone in the U.S. suffers a stroke every 40 seconds, and nearly 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year. Early stroke detection and treatment are key to improving survival, minimizing disability and speeding recovery times.

 

Get With The Guidelines – Stroke was developed to assist healthcare professionals in providing the most up-to-date, research-based guidelines for treating stroke patients.

 

“We are committed to providing excellent care to all of our patients, including stroke patients, and we are proud to receive recognition for our efforts through the Get With The Guidelines program,” Don Karl, chief executive officer of Las Palmas Medical Center, said. “This achievement would not be possible without the extraordinary efforts of our doctors, nurses and staff.”

 

To earn the Get With The Guidelines Gold Plus award, Las Palmas Medical Center and Del Sol Medical Center achieved two or more consecutive calendar years of 85 percent or higher adherence to all guidelines. The hospital also achieved 75 percent or higher compliance with additional select quality measures in stroke.

 

“We are pleased to be recognized with multiple national awards for the care that we provide our stroke patients,” Art Garza, chief executive officer of Del Sol Medical Center, said. “We are grateful for the dedication our team provides to patients and for their ongoing commitment to improving the quality of care for all El Pasoans.”

 

To qualify for Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus recognition, hospitals must meet specific criteria developed to reduce the time between the patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with a clot-buster drug to treat ischemic stroke.

 

For the Target: Type Two Diabetes Honor Roll award, hospitals must aim to ensure patients with type two diabetes receive the most up-to-date, evidence-based care when hospitalized due to stroke.

 

To learn more about Get With The Guidelines – Stroke and its recognition criteria, please visit the American Heart Association’s website.