YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (PRWEB) May 31, 2013
St. Elizabeth Health Center has received the Get With The GuidelinesStroke Silver Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The award recognizes St. Elizabeths commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted guidelines.
This marks the third year that St. Elizabeth has been recognized with a quality achievement award.
Get With The GuidelinesStroke helps the staff at St. Elizabeth develop and implement acute and secondary prevention guideline processes to improve patient care and outcomes. The program provides hospitals with a web-based patient management tool, best practice discharge protocols and standing orders, along with a robust registry and real-time benchmarking capabilities to track performance.
The quick and efficient use of guideline procedures can improve the quality of care for stroke patients and may reduce disability and save lives.
Recent studies show that patients treated in hospitals participating in the American Heart Associations Get With The GuidelinesStroke program receive a higher quality of care and may experience better outcomes, said Lee H. Schwamm, M.D., chair of the Get With The Guidelines National Steering Committee and director of the TeleStroke and Acute Stroke Services at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. The team at St. Elizabeth Health Center is to be commended for their commitment to improving the care of their patients.
Following the Get With The GuidelinesStroke treatment program, patients are started on aggressive risk-reduction therapies including the use of medications such as tPA, antithrombotics and anticoagulation therapy, along with cholesterol reducing drugs and smoking cessation counseling. These are all aimed at reducing death and disability and improving the lives of stroke patients. Hospitals must adhere to these measures at a set level for a designated period of time to be eligible for the achievement awards.
St. Elizabeth Health Center is dedicated to making our care for stroke patients among the best in the country. The American Heart Associations Get WithThe GuidelinesStroke program helps us to accomplish this goal, said Mary Ann Cashier, Stroke Center coordinator. This recognition demonstrates that we are on the right track and were very proud of our team.
According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is one of the leading causes of death and serious, long-term disability in the United States. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies of a stroke every four minutes; and 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.
About Humility of Mary Health Partners: Humility of Mary Health Partners is an integrated health system in the Youngstown/Warren area. It is a region of Catholic Health Partners (CHP) in Cincinnati, the largest health system in Ohio and one of the largest Catholic health systems in the United States. HMHP provides a full spectrum of health care services, including inpatient, outpatient, emergency, urgent care, home care and long-term care. Members are St. Elizabeth Health Center, St. Joseph Health Center, St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center, HM Home Health Services, The Assumption Village, Humility House, Hospice of the Valley and Laurel Lake. Learn more at http://www.HMpartners.org.
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