Burlington Hospital Nationally Recognized For High-Quality Stroke Care

Anytime I see 'care' in any stroke 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:

 

Burlington Hospital Nationally Recognized For High-Quality Stroke Care

Posted Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 8:40 am ET

Lahey Hospital has earned four awards from the American Heart Association. (Shutterstock)

BURLINGTON, MA — Lahey Hospital & Medical Center has received four American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines achievement awards, according to a statement from the hospital. The awards are for the hospital's "commitment to following up-to-date, research-based guidelines for the treatment of stroke, ultimately leading to more lives saved, shorter recovery times and fewer readmissions to the hospital."

Heart disease and stroke are two of the leading causes of death in the United States. Studies show patients can recover better when providers consistently follow treatment guidelines.

Get With The Guidelines is intended to put the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association's expertise to work for hospitals nationwide.

“We are proudly committed to delivering the best patient care while adhering to the latest treatment guidelines,” Susan Moffat-Bruce, hospital president, said in a statement. “The American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines program provides research-based recommendations to encourage the best outcomes for our patients. The expertise of our staff, combined with these guidelines, offers patients a chance to lead healthier lives.”

The hospital received a Stroke Gold Plus award for treating patients to "core standard levels of care as outlined by the American Stroke Association" for two calendar years.

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The hospital also received the Stroke Elite Award, Type 2 Diabetes Award, and Resuscitation Silver.