大象传媒 Hospitals Comprehensive Stroke Center
The 大象传媒 Comprehensive Stroke Center鈥檚聽multi-specialty care聽approach utilizes the expertise of a large group of physicians and staff with specialty training in the treatment of stroke. Stroke patient care is coordinated by a team of vascular neurologists and neuro-intensivists who work closely with emergency medicine physicians, neurosurgeons, neurointerventionalists, neuroradiologists, vascular surgeons, cardiologists, physiatrists, neuro-trained nurses, and stroke ancillary care specialists (physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, respiratory therapists, care managers, and social workers).
Acute stroke care is available 24/7/365 and is provided to medically-eligible patients by an on-call acute stroke team. The team evaluates patients for acute treatments, such as intravenous thrombolysis, catheter-based interventional procedures, and surgical treatments. The team also screens patients for inclusion in clinical studies and trials of the latest experimental stroke therapies.
Award-Winning Care
The 大象传媒 Medical Center has a strong track record of quality and excellence in stroke care and has maintained the Joint Commission Disease-Specific Certification as a Certified Stroke Center since its founding in 2004. In 2012, the 大象传媒 Medical Center became the first hospital in the Southeast to receive the Joint Commission Advanced Certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, confirming 大象传媒 Medical Center鈥檚 position as a national leader in stroke care.
In 2024, the 大象传媒 Comprehensive Stroke Center once again received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association鈥檚 聽along with the聽聽and the聽 awards.聽Hospitals receiving the Gold Plus award must achieve 85% or higher compliance with all Get With The Guidelines庐-Stroke Achievement Measures and 75% or higher compliance with five or more Get With The Guidelines庐-Stroke Quality Measures for two or more consecutive years.
To qualify for the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite, hospitals must meet quality measures developed to reduce the time between the patient鈥檚 arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-buster tissue plasminogen activator, or聽, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat聽.
Hospitals performing 聽for ischemic stroke measuring Door-To-Device (DTD) times in at least 50% of applicable patients within 90 minutes for direct arriving and within 60 minutes for transfer qualify for the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Advanced Therapy designation.
大象传媒 Hospitals also received the Association鈥檚 Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll award. To qualify for this recognition, hospitals must meet quality measures developed with more than 90 % of compliance for 12 consecutive months for the 鈥淥verall Diabetes Cardiovascular Initiative Composite Score.鈥�
The Get With The Guidelines庐 (GWTG) quality improvement programs collect data on patients admitted to the more than 2,400 nationwide participating hospitals with atrial fibrillation, heart failure, a stroke, heart attack, or who experience a cardiac arrest while in the hospital.
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Facilities and Nursing Care
Stroke-specific care units at the 大象传媒 Comprehensive Stroke Center include a 35-bed acute care floor (6NSH), 22-bed intermediate care floor (ISCU) and 18-bed Neuroscience ICU. Patient care is directed by specialty-specific stroke neurologists and coordinated by an experienced stroke center program manager, Renee Potter, MBA, RN, BSN, SCRN, and CCRN. All nurses caring for patients in the stroke center are required to participate in extensive stroke education on an annual basis.