LFR Recognized for Heart Attack and Stroke Care for Ninth Consecutive Year

So for 9 years now you've been incompetent by focusing on 'care', NOT RESULTS! I'm fire the whole service. 

Anytime I see 'care' in any press release I know the stroke service 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:

LFR Recognized for Heart Attack and Stroke Care for Ninth Consecutive Year

Lincoln Fire & Rescue File Photo(Ryan Swanigan (KOLN))

By Ryan Swanigan

Published: Aug. 2, 2023 at 1:36 AM EDT|Updated: 17 hours ago

LINCOLN, Neb. (City of Lincoln Press Release) - Lincoln Fire and Rescue announced it has received the American Heart Association’s and American Stroke Association’s 2023 Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold with Target: Heart Attack Honor Roll Award.

Mission Lifeline is a national, community-based initiative improving systems of care for patients experiencing heart attack, stroke, and cardiac arrest.

This is the eighth consecutive gold award LFR has received. LFR won its first award, the silver recognition, in 2015, which was the highest level obtainable for a first year applicant. In order for LFR to be recognized at the level of EMS Gold with Target: Heart Attack Honor Roll, they must consistently reach an aggressive goal of treating patients to core standard levels developed by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.

Agencies that receive the Mission: Lifeline® Gold Award have consistently demonstrated compliance for each required achievement measure for a minimum of two consecutive years.

“Lincoln Fire and Rescue is committed to quality patient care. The use of evidence-based protocols, and collaboration with our medical director and Lincoln hospitals allows LFR to give our patients the absolute best possible outcome when suffering a stroke, heart attack, or cardiac arrest,” said Battalion Chief Jamie Pospisil. “I am proud of our dedicated EMS professionals that strive to maintain a high level of advanced training. Their commitment to serve our citizens ensures we meet the standards necessary to achieve this recognition for our community.”

Pospisil added that in 2022, LFR maintained the Lifeline® EMS Gold recognition because Lincoln’s EMS professionals recognized patients experiencing typical and atypical symptoms associated with a heart attack, stroke, and cardiac arrest.

“This quick recognition resulted in early treatment, early hospital notification, and rapid transport to the appropriate emergency department that provides a continuity of care,” Pospisil said.