Award demonstrates hospital’s commitment to quality care for stroke patients
(Long Island, NY) The Peconic Bay Medical Center (PBMC) has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get with the Guidelines Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award at the association’s International Stroke Conference 2015. The award recognizes PBMC’s commitment and success ensuring that stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
The Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite Gold Plus award was presented to hospitals that met quality measures developed to reduce the time between the patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-buster tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke. 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.
“We are honored to be recognized for our continued commitment of providing the most professional and state-of-the-art care for our patients,” said PBMC Rep. “ The Peconic Bay Medical Center is dedicated to improving the quality of stroke care and we are fortunate that the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines Stroke helps us achieve that goal.”
“We are pleased to recognize Peconic Bay Medical Center for their commitment to stroke care,” said Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., M.P.H., national chairman of the Get With The Guidelines steering committee and Executive Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “Studies have shown that hospitals that consistently follow Get With The Guidelines quality improvement measures can reduce length of stay and 30-day readmission rates and reduce disparities in care.”
According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is the number five cause of death and a leading cause of adult 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.
