Staten Island University Hospital receives 'Gold Plus' award for stroke care

Lets examine the claims here.
http://www.silive.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2013/01/siuh_receives_gold_plus_award_for_stroke_care.html
The American Heart and American Stroke associations have acknowledged the high quality of Staten Island University Hospital’s (SIUH) care of stroke patients.
SIUH, part of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, has received the two associations’ Get With The Guidelines–Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted guidelines.
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What are those guidelines and why can't survivors see them? With no openness we can't tell if this is a statement of fact or puffery.
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“We are dedicated to making our care for stroke patients among the best in the country. The American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines–Stroke program helps us to accomplish this goal,” said Dr. Souhel Najjar, director of neurology.
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How do we know if the goal has been accomplished? Or even how hard the goal is?  If its not 100% recovery then you should be relieved of duty. Survival of the fittest and all.
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 “This recognition demonstrates that we are on the right track and we’re very proud of our team.”
Get With The Guidelines–Stroke helps the SIUH staff develop and implement acute and secondary prevention guideline processes to improve patient care and outcomes. The program provides hospitals with a web-based patient management tool, and best practice discharge protocols and standing orders. It also provides the tools to track performance.
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 What is your performance on recovery? Make it public.
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“Recent studies show that patients treated in hospitals participating in the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke program receive a higher quality of care and may experience better outcomes,” said Dr. Lee H. Schwamm, chair of the Get With The Guidelines national steering committee and director of the TeleStroke and Acute Stroke Services at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Following Get With The Guidelines-Stroke treatment guidelines, patients are started on aggressive risk-reduction therapies including the use of medications, antithrombotics and anticoagulation therapy, plus cholesterol reducing drugs and smoking cessation counseling.
Hospitals must adhere to these measures at a set level for a designated period of time to be eligible for the achievement awards.
For more information about the Stroke Center at SIUH, call 718-226-9000.