WellStar Health System is pleased to announce WellStar Kennestone Hospital has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Silver Performance Achievement Award.
The award recognizes WellStar Kennestone 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.
“This award is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the talented team that makes up the Stroke Program,” said Susan Zimmermann, Stroke Best Practice Nurse for WellStar Kennestone Hospital. “WellStar is extremely proud of this award and the work it recognizes.”
WellStar Kennestone received the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Silver Performance Achievement Award after consistently complying with the requirements in the Get With The Guidelines–Stroke program. These include aggressive use of medications like tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), antithrombotics, anticoagulation therapy, DVT prophylaxis, cholesterol reducing drugs and smoking cessation. This 12-month evaluation period is the second in an ongoing self-evaluation by the hospital to continually reach the 85 percent compliance level needed to sustain this award.
WellStar Kennestone Hospital’s Stroke Program offers the latest in imaging technology and administers tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the acute treatment of ischemic stroke. WellStar Kennestone Hospital’s Stroke Program sees an average of 900 patients each year.
According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of serious, long-term disability. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 45 seconds; someone dies of a stroke every three minutes; and 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.
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