For the second consecutive year, St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center has been awarded the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold-Plus Quality Achievement award and has been recognized as a Target: Stroke Honor Roll hospital, according to a press release from St. Mary-Corwin.
The accolades come from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, which chose recipients based on specific quality improvement measures by a hospital for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients for a set level for a designated period, the press release said.
Some of the measures set by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association include an aggressive use of medications and risk-reduction therapies aimed at reducing death and disability and improving the lives of stroke patients, the release said.
The Target: Stroke Honor Roll designation is based on a hospitals ability to reduce the time between hospital arrival and treatment with the clot-buster tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke, the release said.
This award demonstrates the excellent care that we deliver at St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center, said Ashley Trujillo, stroke program coordinator at the hospital, in the release. We provide our patients with fast-acting, exceptional stroke treatment that prepares them for discharge and a healthy recovery.
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association lists stroke as the No. 4 cause of death and a leading cause of adult disability in the United States, according to their website; about 795,000 Americans suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.
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