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Sacred Heart Medical Center Comments on Stroke:
Sacred Heart Medical Center (SHMC) has actively worked on improving stroke care since 1996, thanks to the efforts of dedicated physician and nursing leaders, and has a Neurological/Rehabilitation Clinical Service interdisciplinary group that meets monthly to review and make recommendations for improvements in a variety of neurological disorders including stroke. SHMC has participated over the years in state and national collaborative efforts to improve stroke care, by submitting data on various aspects of stroke care and their effect on outcomes such as mortality rate.
It came as a surprise in the latest statewide and national collaborative to discover that Oregon has the third worst stroke death rate in the nation, and that SHMC’s stroke death rate was higher than the state average. While there are many complex reasons for this (including Oregon’s cultural attitudes to end-of-life care, use of advanced directives and do not resuscitate instructions, time required to travel to the hospital after onset of symptoms, etc); an interdisciplinary team of neurologists, neurosurgeons, vascular surgeons, hospitalists, emergency physicians, radiologists, rehabilitation physicians, nursing staff, and administrative staff was convened to review SHMC’s stroke care and made recommendations for improvement. This has resulted in improvements in time to imaging on arrival at hospital; quicker time to thrombolytic therapy when appropriate; recommendation to become certified as a Stroke Center of Excellence/Primary Stroke Center; and a significant community education and screening program as part of our community’s Know Stroke campaign.
SHMC maintains an active program to review the outcomes of care provided to its patients; and philosophically believes that being open and honest – transparent – about the care received by its patients, ultimately leads to ongoing improvements in care. Visit our SHMC’s Transparency Website demonstrating the results of care provided at SHMC and what we are doing about it.
Comments last updated: July 8, 2005
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