Florida Hospital Zephyrhills Receives Get With The Guidelines Stroke Bronze Quality Achievement Award

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January 09, 2012

Florida Hospital Zephyrhills Receives Get With The Guidelines Stroke Bronze Quality Achievement Award

Florida Hospital Zephyrhills is the recipient of the prestigious American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines^®–Stroke Bronze Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations. Florida Zephyrhills is the only hospital in East Pasco County to receive this award.

“With a stroke, time lost is brain lost, and the Get With The Guidelines–Stroke Bronze Quality Achievement Award addresses the important element of time,” said Duffield, president & CEO, Florida Hospital Zephyrhills. “Florida Hospital Zephyrhills has developed a comprehensive system for rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients admitted to our emergency department. We have the ability to perform an immediate CT or brain imaging scan providing quick diagnosis and treatment of stroke. In addition, we have the only interventional neuroradiologist in East Pasco County, a dedicated clinical stroke team and we use aggressive medications like the clot-busting drug t-PA as appropriate.”

To receive the Get With The Guidelines–Stroke Bronze Quality Achievement Award, Florida Hospital Zephyrhills consistently follows the treatment guidelines in the Get With The Guidelines–Stroke program for 90 days. These guidelines include use of medications like tPA, antithrombotics, anticoagulation therapy, DVT prophylaxis, cholesterol reducing drugs, and smoking cessation. The 90-day evaluation period is the first in an ongoing self-evaluation by the hospital to continually reach the 85 percent compliance level needed to sustain this award.

Get With The Guidelines–Stroke uses the “teachable moment,” the time soon after a patient has had a stroke, when they are most likely to listen to and follow their healthcare professionals’ guidance. Studies demonstrate that patients who are taught how to manage their risk factors while still in the hospital reduce their risk of a second stroke. Through Get With The Guidelines–Stroke, customized patient education materials are made available at the point of discharge, based on patients’ individual risk profiles.

According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is one of the leading causes of death and serious, long-term 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.