CHI Health earns award for expertise in stroke management - Kearney, NE

A great stroke association leader would be contacting these hospitals and tell them to stop putting out these false puffery articles and just focus on their factual results. But that is a pipe dream of mine.
 These are NOT result awards so they don't tell you anything about how good the program is. Call that hospital president(

Michael Schnieders
President & CEO) 

main telephone number: (308) 865-7100

  and demand to know what the RESULTS are; 30 day deaths, 100% recovery, tPA efficacy?
There is absolutely nothing in here that tells me that the RESULTS are better in this hospital than other hospitals. I don't give a crap about how well you do processes.
Big fucking whoopee.
Guidelines here: You can see how this is nothing to be impressed about. This is all indirect action, not results.
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthcareResearch/GetWithTheGuidelinesHFStrokeResus/GetWithTheGuidelinesStrokeHomePage/Get-With-The-Guidelines-Stroke-Overview_UCM_308021_Article.jsp

The puffery article here:
http://www.kearneyhub.com/news/local/chi-health-earns-award-for-expertise-in-stroke-management/article_60e0d49e-2494-11e6-be44-6f62e385e919.html

CHI Health Good Samaritan has been honored for the way it treats strokes.
The hospital received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award with Target: StrokeSM Honor Roll Elite Plus.

The award recognizes the hospital’s adherence to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines to support better outcomes for stroke patients — faster recovery and reduced disability and mortality. Good Sam is the first hospital in Nebraska to earn this elite level of recognition. It has been a primary stroke center since 2011 and treats more than 200 stroke patients yearly.

“A stroke patient loses 1.9 million neurons each minute treatment is delayed,” said Pamela Palmer, a registered nurse with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She is the intensive care and neuro-trauma educator, stroke coordinator. “At Good Samaritan Hospital, we are continually advancing, finding better ways to treat strokes faster and more safely. This award just reinforces our team’s drive to provide the most up-to-date care to our friends and neighbors.”

Good Samaritan has also met specific scientific guidelines as an Advanced Primary Stroke Center, featuring a comprehensive system for rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients admitted to the emergency department.

A stoke is also known as a “brain attack,” and affects the brain in much the same way a heart attack affects the heart. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel to the brain is either blocked by a clot or bursts. As a result, part of the brain does not get the blood it needs and begins to die. The longer the blood flow is cut off to the brain, the greater the damage.

Recognizing symptoms and acting fast to get medical attention can save a life and limit disabilities.