Manitoba Stroke Patients to Benefit from Intensive Rehabilitation in New Dedicated Unit

 Really? The first sentence has the word 'care' NOT RECOVERY OR RESULTS!

Anytime I see 'care' in any stroke press release I know the stroke medical world 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 medical world is possibly not completely incompetent; DO YOU MEASURE ANYTHING?  I would start cleaning the hospitals 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 partnership 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:

Manitoba Stroke Patients to Benefit from Intensive Rehabilitation in New Dedicated Unit

Acute Stroke Unit Offers Specialized Care Immediately Following Stroke, Helps Survivors Regain Independence and Quality of Life: Asagwara

Manitoba stroke survivors will soon have access to specialized care and intensive rehabilitation tailored to individual needs, as the province’s acute stroke unit opens next week at Health Sciences Centre (HSC) Winnipeg, Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara announced today.

“Manitobans deserve leading-edge medical care services that improve patient outcomes and speed up recovery times,” said Asagwara. “The opening of the new stroke unit at HSC will meet that expectation, providing Manitoba stroke patients with treatment, management and rehabilitation beginning in the days immediately following a stroke, highly specialized care that will help them in their recovery journey and improve quality of life.”

Located on the fourth and fifth floors of 735 Notre Dame Ave., formerly known as the Women’s Pavilion, the entirely renovated unit will welcome its first patients on Monday with the opening of an initial 12 beds. The centralized unit is approximately 18,400 sq.-ft. in size and includes modern single-bed rooms with ample space for loved ones, an occupational therapy kitchen that helps assess a patient’s ability to determine how well they will be able to move around in a home setting once discharged, and a gym space where patients work with physiotherapists – often within hours of experiencing a stroke.

Approximately 3,500 strokes occur in Manitoba each year. Until now, these patients only had access to two of three standard therapies while in hospital – clot busting and clot removal therapies. With the opening of the stroke unit, inpatients will soon have improved access to intensive rehabilitation, which is seen by clinical experts as crucial in speeding up recovery times, the minister noted.

“The new acute stroke unit at HSC will provide patients with care from stroke neurologists, physiatrists, nurses and rehabilitation specialists that will provide the full range of therapies for stroke patients to prevent further health complications, reduce the chances of a second stroke occurring, and maximizing their recovery,” said Dr. Esseddeeg Ghrooda, stroke neurologist, HSC Winnipeg. “Our team is very pleased that patients will soon have access to this enhanced level of stroke care.”

The unit will benefit from its proximity to interventional angiography facilities and equipment supporting stroke care at HSC’s Diagnostic Centre of Excellence, the minister added.

“We know that if a person who experiences stroke receives care in an acute stroke unit they are more likely to survive, have fewer complications, return home and regain independence,” said Christine Houde, director of health policy and systems in Manitoba, Heart & Stroke. “This facility will bring together a comprehensive team of stroke experts to deliver the best evidence-based care for people who have a stroke in this province. This is truly excellent news for all Manitobans.”

Additional nursing staff are expected to be hired in the next three to four months to bring the unit’s capacity to 28 beds, the minister noted, adding that HSC officials have received an enthusiastic response to the initial postings that resulted in a significant number of applicants.