Deans' stroke musings: The New Jersey Comprehensive Stroke Center at University Hospital: At the Intersection of Clinical Excellence, Education and Research

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

The New Jersey Comprehensive Stroke Center at University Hospital: At the Intersection of Clinical Excellence, Education and Research

These are NOT result awards so they don't tell you anything about how good the program is. Call that hospital president(

Nancy Hamstra
Interim President and CEO / Chief Operating Officer - UH D227
Email: hamstrna@uhnj.org
(973) 972-4752 and demand to know what the RESULTS are; 30 day deaths, 100% recovery, tPA efficacy?
There is absolutely nothing in here that tells me that the RESULTS are better in this hospital than other hospitals. I don't give a crap about how well you do processes.
Big f*cking whoopee.

You can check out Joint Commission standards here:

http://www.jointcommission.org/assets

I saw absolutely nothing about what should be done the first week or anything about measuring 30-day deaths and 100% recovery. God, these people are worse than worthless. Complacent good-for-nothings.

The puffery article here:
http://www.mdnews.com/news/2016_02/the-new-jersey-comprehensive-stroke-center-at-university-hospital.aspx

When patients present at the Emergency Department (ED) with stroke symptoms, timely evaluation and treatment are critical. The New Jersey Comprehensive Stroke Center combines streamlined protocols with an experienced team and academic-level research to enhance survival and quality-of-life outcomes.

The New Jersey Comprehensive Stroke Center provides the full spectrum of care(not results?) for stroke patients, as evidenced by its advanced certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, a designation awarded by The Joint Commission in conjunction with the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Brain Attack Coalition. Such qualification is The Joint Commission’s highest accreditation and requires a center to exceed clinical requirements for the Disease-Specific Care certification program.
In addition to partnering with local emergency management systems (EMS) and following standardized protocols, Comprehensive Stroke Centers such as the New Jersey Comprehensive Stroke Center feature a neuro-intensive care unit and a multidisciplinary team that participates in clinical trials and is equipped to manage more complex ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes, including subarachnoid hemorrhage.