Daytona Beach, FL - Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach has earned the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite.
This award was given to Halifax Health Medical Center based upon the hospital's nationally-recognized, researched and scientifically-backed treatment for stroke.
For the Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, they were within 85% compliance of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Achievement requirements for 2 years as well as within 75% compliance of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Quality with 5 out of 8 requirements met.
For the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite, the hospital met the requirement for the time in which it takes for a patient to arrive at the hospital and receive clot-buster tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) ischemic stroke treatment. The tPA treatment is the only U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medicine for ischemic stroke and it is administered intravenously for 3 hours after a stroke to lessen side effects and the chance of permanent damage.
"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,” says Amanda Conn, MSN, RN and Halifax Health Director of Nursing for Performance Improvement. "Halifax Health 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 achievements and qualities these awards recognize help hospitals to utilize the newest and most-researched procedures in dealing with stroke patients to speed along their recovery and reduce disabilities and deaths.
For additional information on Halifax Heath Medical Center's stroke services and support groups, visit the Comprehensive Stoke Center here.
Photo courtesy of Halifax Health Medical Center.
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