Hospital Recognized for Outstanding Decade of Stroke Care

Notice the word 'CARE' NOT RESULTS! In my opinion this is an admission of an incompetent hospital. 

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

 

Oops, I'm not playing by the polite rules of Dale Carnegie;  'How to Win Friends and Influence People'. 

Telling supposedly smart stroke medical persons they know nothing about stroke is a no-no even if it is true. 

Politeness will never solve anything in stroke. Yes, I'm a bomb thrower and proud of it. Someday a stroke 'leader' will try to ream me out for making them look bad by being truthful, I look forward to that day. 

 The latest invalid chest thumping here:

 

Hospital Recognized for Outstanding Decade of Stroke Care

HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital was recently recognized by the American Heart Association for its impressive track record of treating stroke patients. The hospital has earned the Gold Plus achievement in Get with the Guidelines® for stroke for more than 10 years consecutively. As a primary stroke center, the hospital has achieved high marks for quality and good patient outcomes. Heart disease and stroke are the number one and fifth leading causes of death in the United States respectively. HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital is proud to be one of only 29 hospitals in the state to achieve this recognition. The hospital was listed in the Association’s US News & World Report special edition for this milestone: https://usnewsbrandfuse.com/AmericanHeartAssociation/. Each year, the American Heart Association recognizes hospitals across the country for following up-to-date, research-based guidelines to ensure all patients have access to the best practices and lifesaving care. The hospital also takes an all-inclusive approach to treating patients who have had a stroke. In addition to care in the emergency room or cardiac areas, patients also get specialized rehabilitation and stroke education.