Deans' stroke musings: Certification of Stroke Care Center Sought - Stanford Health Care

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Certification of Stroke Care Center Sought - Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare, Livermore California

Big fucking whoopee.

You can check out Joint Commission standards here:

http://www.jointcommission.org/assets

I saw absolutely nothing about what should be done the first week or anything about measuring 30-day deaths and 100% recovery. Making exceptional efforts is not good enough, Survivors want results, 100% recovery.

Measurements, guidelines and care mean nothing to stroke patients, get your fucking heads out of your asses and start measuring results. Then you can start crowing.
If you are going to crow about something tell us how many of your stroke patients you will get to 100% recovery. THAT IS THE ONLY CRITERIA.

Certification of Stroke Care Center Sought - Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare, Livermore California

Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare submitted its application for certification of its stroke care center to the Joint Commission, the certifying entity. Shaké Sulikyan, Executive Director, ValleyCare Charitable Foundation, stated, "We are waiting for information on a certification visit." She expects the visit to happen within the next two months.

The certification recognizes programs that make exceptional efforts to foster better outcomes for stroke patients. When the certification is complete, ambulances will be able to drive patients to ValleyCare instead of Eden Hospital in Castro Valley or John Muir in Walnut Creek.

Donations from the community have provided funding for new, cutting-edge equipment; training for front-line clinical staff members and Hospital employees; the addition of key roles to the Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare team; the implementation of new care and transfer protocols; and the launch of TeleNeurology and stroke-response procedures. Since its launch on December 17, TeleNeurology treatment has been provided for 40 patients who either walked into the Emergency Department or were inpatients.

Sulikyan says that donations have financed inpatient and acute care. However, more are still needed to fill the gap in rehabilitation and support services.

Those interested in donating to the stroke care center can go to givevalleycare.org/stroke or call 925-373-4560.

According to Dr. Prashanth Krishnamohan, Medical Director of Neurology, Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare, and Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, “The longer it takes a stroke patient to receive care, the more damage to their brain. We know that for every 15 minutes’ acceleration in treatment, out of 1,000 patients, 4 more lives are saved, 18 more patients walk unaided, and 7 more patients are discharged home rather than to a rehabilitation or long-term care facility. Timely access to acute stroke care can be the difference between a full recovery, a lifetime of disability, or death.”