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Hospital honored for stroke care

Livingston County News - 6/22/2017

UR Medicine Noyes Health has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Quality Achievement Award.

The award recognizes the hospital's commitment and success in ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

To receive the Gold Quality Achievement Award, hospitals must achieve 85 percent or higher adherence to all Get With The Guidelines-Stroke achievement indicators for two or more consecutive 12-month periods.

The measures are designed to help hospital teams provide the most up-to-date, evidence-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. The measures focus on appropriate use of guideline-based care for stroke patients, including aggressive use of medications such as clot-busting and anti-clotting drugs, blood thinners and cholesterol-reducing drugs, preventive action for deep vein thrombosis and smoking cessation counseling.

"A stroke patient loses 1.9 million neurons each minute stroke treatment is delayed. This recognition further demonstrates our commitment to delivering advanced stroke treatments to patients quickly and safely," said Noyes Health Stroke Educator Patricia Derowitsch. "The recognition from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke further reinforces our team's hard work."

Dr. Paul Heidenreich, national chairman of the Get With The Guidelines Steering Committee and a professor of medicine at Stanford University, noted that research has shown there are benefits to patients who are treated at hospitals that have adopted the Get With The Guidelines program.

According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is the No. 5 cause of death and a leading cause of adult disability in the United States. On average, someone in the U.S. suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies of a stroke every four minutes, and nearly 800,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.

For more information, visit heart.org.

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