How the American Heart Association stroke care grant can help rural communities

 This is how pathetic the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association is!  Thinking that stroke survivors want 'care'! They want RECOVERY, WHY THE HELL AREN'T YOU PROVIDING THAT? 

Why isn't the ASA solving stroke?

Laziness? Incompetence? Or just don't care? NO leadership? NO strategy? Not my job? Not my Problem?

How the American Heart Association stroke care grant can help rural communities

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - On Wednesday, we brought you the news of the American Heart Association’s over $5 million grant they received for stroke care(NOT RECOVERY!) across South Dakota.

A driving topic at the October 9 press conference was accessing rural communities. One American Heart Association representative says the goal is to avoid settling for a lesser standard of care(NOT RECOVERY!).

This grant will go to the American Heart’s Lifeline Stroke Initiative and it’s largely thanks to the Helmsley Charitable Trust which funded over four million of those dollars.

The trust fund has continued to work to provide a more comprehensive approach to stroke care(NOT RECOVERY!) for those who face longer transit times.

“Just to put it in perspective, it will not matter in the future whether you have a stroke in a small town or if you have a stroke here in a metropolitan area, the system of care(NOT RECOVERY!) will be the same,” Walter Panzirer, part of the Helmsley Charitable Trust said.

One published study showed that patients living in rural areas experience worse health outcomes and a 30% higher in-patient mortality rate than urban populations. And part of this may be a result of how people approach contacting emergency help.

“It’s viewed as slower to wait for an ambulance than to go to your local hospital rather than getting into your car and going to the bigger city. Time might be shorter but the time to get to the right care and get care as quickly as possible is longer if that’s the case," Gary Myers, American Heart Association National Director for Healthcare Quality Initiatives said.

The American Heart Association said specific plans for this grant in rural communities are to be decided but it all depends on what the state needs.

“There is care(NOT RECOVERY!) that is needed and needed to be delivered at every phase of that system of care, to include EMS agencies/services to rural hospitals,” Myers said.

This may also include educational training in reservation populations, and coordinated Emergency Management Services in rural hospitals and post-acute stroke care facilities.

Minnesota received 4.7 million dollars despite a much bigger population, Myers says that’s because the state has a much more developed network of care(NOT RECOVERY!).