Youngstown hospital gets high marks for stroke care

 

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! By touting 'care' they are not telling you about results or recovery which survivors want! Survivors don't care about door to needle time; you FUCKING BLITHERING IDIOTS; they want 100% recovery! Why aren't you providing that?

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 'care' guidelines yourself. Survivors want RECOVERY not 'care'

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

The latest invalid chest thumping here:

Youngstown hospital gets high marks for stroke care

YOUNGSTOWN — Mercy Health’s St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital has received high marks for stroke care from The Joint Commission, the highly-regarded organization that evaluates and accredits health care providers.

Meanwhile, word remains out on a grant request for $5 million the hospital would use to further improve on stroke care.

The hospital earned the commission’s thrombectomy-capable stroke center certification, which, according to Kathleen Harley, hospital president, is an advanced certification — “the next level up from a primary stroke center,” she said.

St. Elizabeth Youngstown has been a primary stroke center since 2004; it’s one of only a few in the immediate area to have earned the certification, according to a Mercy Health press release.

The newest certification is awarded to hospitals that are primary stroke centers that also perform endovascular thrombectomy procedures and provide care after the procedure, the release states.

The certification is given in collaboration with the American Heart and Stroke associations, according to the commission’s website.

Thrombectomy, according to the National Library of Medicine, involves removing a clot from a blood vessel, most commonly from the brain, heart or lungs.

Being given the commission’s Gold Seal of Approval and the stroke association’s Heart-Check mark for thrombectomy-capable stroke center certification “recognizes St. Elizabeth Youngstown for excellence in performing thrombectomies and reflects our commitment to serving our community by providing high-quality care,” Harley said.

In March, representatives of the commission performed an unannounced onsite review to evaluate compliance with related certification standards, and conduct observations and interviews.

The hospital, Harley said, is seeing more patients because of its two interventional neurologists, physicians who perform minimally invasive procedures called endovascular stroke care for hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes, with high quality outcomes.

“Before you can apply for this advanced certification, you must already have your program established, as the Joint Commission evaluates all aspects of your program to determine if you will be awarded this higher level of accreditation,” Harley said. “We started performing these endovascular procedures and building our program upon the hiring of these physicians. The surveyor noted that our program was one of (the) best she has seen and will be sharing a number of our ‘best practices’ with other stroke centers.”