Physicians Regional Healthcare System Receives Get With the Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award
5/15/2016
American Heart Association Award recognizes Physicians Regional Healthcare System’s commitment to quality stroke care
Naples, Fla. (May 16, 2016) Physicians Regional Healthcare System has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus 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 Plus 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 and achieved 75 percent or higher compliance with five of eight Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Quality measures.
These quality 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. They 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 Aileen Staller, DNP, ARNP, CNRN, and Stroke Center Coordinator. Physicians Regional Healthcare System continues to strive for excellence in the acute treatment of stroke patients. The recognition from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke further reinforces our team’s hard work.”
“The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association recognizes Physicians Regional Healthcare System for its commitment to stroke care,” said Paul Heidenreich, M.D., M.S., national chairman of the Get With The Guidelines Steering Committee and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. “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.
About Physicians Regional Healthcare System
Physicians Regional Healthcare System is comprised of two premier hospitals (Collier Blvd. and Pine Ridge), an affiliated multi-specialty physician group, and a medical staff of over 300 highly-trained physicians. Our fully integrated campuses include 24-hour emergency rooms, full-service diagnostic departments and medical office buildings featuring various physician specialties. Satellite clinics are located from Bonita Springs to Marco Island, and many feature walk-in or same day appointments. Physicians Regional Healthcare System has been named a 2014 “Top Performing Hospital” by The Joint Commission, for Heart Attack, Heart Failure, Pneumonia, Surgical Care, and Immunization. The Collier Blvd. campus is the area's only MBSAQIP Accredited Bariatric Center. In addition, the Pine Ridge campus holds a fully accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. Both hospitals have been designated by The Joint Commission as Primary Stroke Centers.
About Get With The Guidelines®
Get With The Guidelines® is the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s hospital-based quality improvement program that provides hospitals with tools and resources to increase adherence to the latest research-based guidelines. Developed with the goal of saving lives and hastening recovery, Get With The Guidelines has touched the lives of more than 6 million patients since 2001. For more information, visit www.heart.org.
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