Claiborne Medical Center nationally recognized for commitment to providing high-quality stroke care

I wouldn't go there if all they are offering is 'care'; NOT RECOVERY!

Anytime I see 'care' in any stroke press release I know the stroke medical world 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! By touting 'care' they are not telling you about results or recovery which survivors want! Survivors don't care about your 'care'; you FUCKING BLITHERING IDIOTS; they want 100% recovery! Why aren't you providing that?

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 medical world is possibly not completely incompetent; DO YOU MEASURE ANYTHING?  I would start cleaning the hospitals 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 partnership 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 'care' guidelines yourself. Survivors want RECOVERY not 'care'

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

The latest invalid chest thumping here:

 Claiborne Medical Center nationally recognized for commitment to providing high-quality stroke care

Claiborne Medical Center has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guideline Rural Stroke Bronze quality achievement award for its effort to optimize stroke care(NOT RECOVERY!) and eliminate rural health care(NOT RECOVERY!) outcome disparities.   People who live in rural communities live an average of three years fewer than urban counterparts, have a 40 percent higher likelihood of developing heart disease and face a 30  percent increased risk for stroke mortality – a gap that has grown over the past two decades.   The American Heart Association and American Stroke Associations recognize the importance of health care(NOT RECOVERY!) services provided to those living in rural areas by rural hospitals, as they play a vital role in the initiation of timely, evidence-based care(NOT RECOVERY!). The Get With The Guidelines – Rural Stroke award recognizes eligible organizations that use a unique methodology focused on early acute stroke performance metrics. Email newsletter signup Sign up for our daily email newsletter  “I am so proud of our Claiborne Medical Center team for being recognized for the work they do every day to care(NOT RECOVERY!) for our patients, and for their efforts to improve the lives of those patients and families affected by stroke,” said Patti Ketterman, president and chief administrative officer of Claiborne Medical Center. “As a rural hospital, it can sometimes be difficult to overcome hurdles like extended interfacility transportation times and other barriers, and our Claiborne team works with our other Covenant Health hospitals to ensure that our patients get the care(NOT RECOVERY!) they need.”  The Stroke Rural Bronze quality achievement award recognizes hospitals for their efforts toward acute stroke care(NOT RECOVERY!) excellence demonstrated by composite score compliance to guideline- directed care(NOT RECOVERY!) for intravenous thrombolytic therapy, timely hospital inter-facility transfer, dysphagia screening, symptom timeline and deficit assessment documentation, emergency medical services communication, brain imaging and stroke expert consultation.  “Patients and health care professionals in the Tazewell area face unique health care(NOT RECOVERY!) challenges and opportunities,” said Karen E. Joynt Maddox, M.D., MPH, volunteer expert for the American Heart Association. “Claiborne Medical Center has furthered this important work to improve are for all Americans, regardless of where they live.”  Claiborne Medical Center is located in Tazewell, Tennessee, and is a member of Covenant Health, a community-owned health system providing comprehensive services in Tennessee. Claiborne Medical Center’s mission is to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health. For more information about Claiborne Medical Center, please visit CovenantHealth.com/Claiborne.  Get With The Guidelines is the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s hospital-based quality improvement program that provides hospitals with the latest research-based guidelines. Developed with the goal of saving lives and hastening recovery, Get With The Guidelines has touched the lives of more than 14 million patients since 2001. For more information, visit heart.org.