Tift Regional Medical Center earns three quality awards

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?

Anytime I see the word 'care' in stroke I know that we don't have the right goals anywhere in stroke. 100% recovery is the only goal in stroke. NOT 'care'.

 

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:

 

Tift Regional Medical Center earns three quality awards

TIFTON — Tift Regional Medical Center recently earned three awards from the American Heart Association: Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Plus, Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus, and Target: HF Honor Roll, and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll Achievement Awards.

"I am incredibly proud of all of our staff members who helped us meet the standards and guidelines for these three awards," LeAnn Pritchett, Southwell's system director of quality and safety, said in a news release. "We are honored to be recognized by this program of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, and we believe that these awards truly showcase our commitment to quality care. I know that our incredible staff has pulled together in each of these areas to make this happen, and I am so grateful to them for their hard work and dedication."

Tift Regional Medical Center earned these awards by meeting specific quality achievements related to the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure patients, providing quality care for stroke patients by following treatment guidelines and providing education to stroke patients, and met quality measures of the "Overall Diabetes Cardiovascular Initiative Composite Score." The Get With The Guidelines systems were developed to assist health care professionals in providing the most up-to-date, research-based guidelines for treating heart failure and stroke patients.

"We are pleased to recognize Tift Regional Medical Center for their commitment to heart failure care," said Dr. Clyde W. Yancy, the national chairperson of the American Heart Association Heart Failure systems of care advisory group and chief, division of cardiology at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. "Hospitals that follow Get With The Guidelines protocols often see fewer readmissions and lower mortality rates — a win for health care systems, families and communities."

"Research has shown that hospitals adhering to clinical measures through the Get With The Guidelines quality improvement initiative can often see fewer readmissions and lower mortality rates," said Dr. Lee H. Schwamm, national chairperson of the Quality Oversight Committee and executive vice chair of Neurology, director of Acute Stroke Services, Massachusetts General Hospital of Boston. "We are pleased to recognize Tift Regional Medical Center for their commitment to stroke care."