Mercy receives stroke honor roll award

Posted: Published on April 2nd, 2015

This post was added by Dr Simmons

SIOUX CITY | Mercy Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The GuidelinesTarget: Stroke Honor Roll Quality Achievement Award at the association's International Stroke Conference.

The award recognizes the hospital'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.

Mercy is one of 559 hospitals to be recognized on the Target: Stroke Honor Roll, among the nearly 1,000 hospitals given quality achievement awards at the conference.

To receive the award, hospitals must meet 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.

If given intravenously in the first three hours after the start of symptoms, tPA has been shown to significantly reduce the effects of stroke and lessen the chance of permanent disability. Over three months or greater, at least 50 percent of the hospital's ischemic stroke patients have received tPA within 60 minutes of arriving at the hospital.

Mercy has also met specific scientific guidelines as a Primary Stroke Center, featuring a comprehensive system for rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients admitted to the emergency department.

Continue reading here:
Mercy receives stroke honor roll award

This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.

Comments are closed.