Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center EMS Recognized by American Heart Association for Providing High Quality Care to People with Most Severe Type of Heart Attack and Stroke

 

Anytime I see 'care' in any press release I know the hospital is not willing to disclose actual results because they are so fucking bad, it wouldn't look good, so misdirection is used. Don't fall for that misdirection!

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(whomever 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 this cert 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 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 up on the guidelines yourself.

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

 The latest invalid chest thumping here:

Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center EMS Recognized by American Heart Association for Providing High Quality Care to People with Most Severe Type of Heart Attack and Stroke

Newswise — Hackensack MeridianJFK University Medical Center’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has received, for the ninth consecutive year, the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold achievement award for its high quality, rapid and research-based care to people experiencing the most severe form of heart attack and stroke, ultimately saving lives. The award includes JFKUMC being recognized on the AHA’s heart attack honor roll.

“We at JFK University Medical Center are truly honored to be recognized by the American Heart Association for our dedication to providing optimal care for heart attack and stroke patients,” said Amie Thornton, president, chief hospital executive. “The Mission: Lifeline program recognizes our  EMS team’s proven knowledge and use of tested guidelines to provide patients who have heart attacks and strokes with the best possible chance of survival every day.”

The Mission: Lifeline EMS achievement award recognizes outstanding on-scene care, bringing to the forefront the collaboration and contributions to patient care for prehospital providers.  It is a national recognition program to advance the system of care for patients with high-risk, time-sensitive disease states, such as severe heart attacks and strokes. The program helps reduce barriers to prompt treatment — starting from when 911 is called, to EMS transport and continuing through hospital treatment and discharge.

“Optimal care for heart attack and stroke patients takes coordination between the individual prehospital providers and healthcare systems,” said Jeff McBride, Emergency Services Supervisor.  “Our emergency medical services staff can begin treatment when they arrive wherever the patient is located —  often up to an hour sooner than if someone goes to the hospital by car. Our EMS staff are also trained to provide resuscitation efforts to someone whose heart has stopped. People who arrive by ambulance may also receive faster treatment at the hospital.”

“One of the most important links in the chains of survival for acute stroke and cardiovascular emergencies is emergency medical services and prehospital professionals,” said Rich Schlosser, Clinical Manager, Emergency Services. “Early condition identification, stabilization and prehospital interventions, and initiation of actions within the regional systems of care provide patients with the best chance for receiving expedient definitive therapies leading to optimal outcomes and maximized quality of life.”

Hackensack Meridian Health JFK University Medical Center’s is also recognized on the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline System of Care Target Heart Attack Award, focused on the system of care for patients. This award highlights the collaboration and contributions of both prehospital and hospital providers. This time-critical award level is limited to those agencies that provide patient transport to STEMI-receiving and STEMI-referring centers. (STEMI is ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction, the most severe type of heart attack).