So What? No listing of results.
Big f*cking whoopee.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/meridian-health-receives-american-heart-association-s-get-with-the-guidelines-stroke-quality-achievement-award
Meridian Health has received the Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Gold
Plus Quality Achievement Awards from the American Heart Association for
the stroke programs at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Ocean
Medical Center, and Riverview Medical Center. Additionally, Meridian’s
Bayshore Community Hospital has received the Get With The
Guidelines–Stroke Silver Quality Achievement Award. The Get With The
Guidelines award recognize the facilities’ commitment and success in
implementing a higher standard of care by ensuring that stroke patients
receive treatment according to nationally accepted guidelines.(not results)
“Meridian
Health is dedicated to improving the quality of stroke care and The
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The
Guidelines–Stroke helps us achieve that goal,” said Stephen Martino,
M.D., medical director of Meridian’s Stroke Programs. “We’re extremely
proud of our team. This award validates the exceptional work being done
each day, and demonstrates our commitment to ensure that patients
receive quality care based on internationally-respected clinical
guidelines.”
Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Ocean
Medical Center, and Riverview Medical Center also received the
association’s Target: Stroke Honor Roll for meeting stroke quality
measures that reduce the time between hospital arrival and treatment
with the clot-buster tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke. People who suffer a stroke
who receive the drug within three hours (or four and a half hours under
certain more restrictive circumstances) of the onset of symptoms may
recover quicker and are less likely (what specific percentage?) to suffer severe disability.
Get
With The Guidelines–Stroke helps Meridian’s team members 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, best practice discharge protocols and
standing orders, along with a robust registry and real-time
benchmarking capabilities to track performance.
“Receiving the
Get With The Guidelines-Stroke award reinforces the level excellence
that is available through Meridian Neuroscience,” Says Dr. Martino. “Our
commitment to provide exceptional resources is demonstrated by Meridian
being home to five nationally accredited Primary Stroke Centers with
specialized teams of stroke experts prepared to stop the advance of a
stroke.” Meridian’s stroke centers are located at Jersey Shore
University Medical Center, Ocean Medical Center, Riverview Medical
Center, Southern Ocean Medical Center, and Bayshore Community Hospital.
Additionally, the Meridian Transfer Center connects patients to the
region's only Stroke Rescue Center at Jersey Shore University Medical
Center, where nationally renowned neurosurgeons perform groundbreaking
stroke rescue procedures.
“We are pleased to recognize Meridian
Health for their commitment and dedication to stroke care,” said Deepak
L. Bhatt, M.D., M.P.H., national chairman of the Get With The Guidelines
steering committee and Executive Director of Interventional
Cardiovascular Programs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of
Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “Studies have shown that hospitals
that consistently follow Get With The Guidelines quality improvement
measures can reduce patients’ length of stays and 30-day readmission
rates and reduce disparity gaps in care.”
Following Get With The
Guidelines-Stroke treatment guidelines, patients are started on
aggressive risk-reduction therapies including the use of medications
such as tPA, antithrombotics and anticoagulation therapy, along with
cholesterol reducing drugs and smoking cessation counseling. These are
all aimed at reducing death and disability and improving the lives of
stroke patients. Hospitals must adhere to these measures at a set level
for a designated period of time to be eligible for the achievement
awards.
According to the American Heart Association/American
Stroke Association, stroke is the number four cause of death and a
leading cause of adult disability in the United States. On average,
someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies of a stroke
every four minutes; and 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke
each year.
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