Southeast Health earns national recognition in stroke care

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 hospital is possibly not completely incompetent; DO YOU MEASURE ANYTHING?  I would start cleaning the hospital 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(Whoever 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 Get With the Guidelines 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 'Get With the 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 the guidelines yourself here:  You'll see they say they improve outcomes but give no proof that it is happening. I find nothing in here that states they are even measuring results or recovery. Since neither seems to occur, it is in my opinion invalid recognition.

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

Get With The Guidelines® Stroke

 The latest invalid chest thumping here:

 

Southeast Health earns national recognition in stroke care

Southeast Health was named a Gold Plus hospital for consistency in all seven stroke related quality measures by the American Stroke Association.

Southeast Health recognized as leader in stroke care.(MGN)

By Caroline Gerhart

Published: Jun. 20, 2022 at 11:54 AM EDT

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Southeast Health was named a Gold Plus hospital for consistency in all 7 stroke-related quality measures by the American Stroke Association.

2022 is the 11th consecutive year that Southeast Health has received this particular recognition.

Additionally, the hospital earned four elite quality “Get with the Guidelines” achievement designations. According to the American Heart Association, “Get with the Guidelines” is an in-hospital program for improving stroke care by promoting consistent adherence to the latest scientific treatment.

As one of only three comprehensive stroke centers in Alabama, Southeast Health also received recognition on the “Stroke Honor Roll” for Advanced Therapy and Type 2 diabetes.

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The stroke team at Southeast Health includes board-certified Emergency Department physicians, specialized nurses and the Radiology department.

“Our stroke team has worked hard during the past several years to hardwire capturing the GWTG Stroke Quality measures,” said Ramona Johnson, MSN, stroke coordinator at Southeast Health Medical Center. “This is the first year that we have attained this elite recognition that will benefit our patients and the community.”

Strokes are the number 5 leading cause of death and disability in the United States. Early stroke detection can be instrumental in improving recovery times and minimizing disability caused by a stroke.

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