Deans' stroke musings: Healthsouth Lakeshore recognized as one of the Top 10 inpatient rehab facilities in the U.S.

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, April 21, 2016

Healthsouth Lakeshore recognized as one of the Top 10 inpatient rehab facilities in the U.S. - Birmingham, AL

So what? The Joint Commission stuff on stroke is worthless because nothing in there is based on results.
http://www.trussvilletribune.com/2016/03/10/healthsouth-lakeshore-recognized-as-one-of-the-top-10-inpatient-rehab-facilities-in-the-u-s/
EFFERSON COUNTY – HealthSouth Lakeshore Rehabilitation Hospital has received top recognition from Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSMR) for the second year. The hospital ranked in the top ten percent of qualifying rehabilitation hospitals for 2015 and 2012.

Healthsouth Lakeshore
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UDSMR is a non-profit group that evaluates rehabilitation hospitals on their delivery of quality care that is effective, efficient, timely and patient-centered. To determine the rankings, UDSMR uses a system that measures the efficiency and effectiveness of a hospital’s rehabilitation programs. The system evaluates and tracks a patient’s progress through the rehabilitation process to document gains. This is the tenth year that UDSMR® has issued the awards.
In 2015, HealthSouth Lakeshore is pleased to report that:

The average length of patient stay was 12.29 days.
76.4 percent of HealthSouth Lakeshore patients were able to go home at discharge.
It holds disease-specific care certification from The Joint Commission for its stroke rehabilitation program.

“Our staff works hard to achieve great results, and I applaud them for their unwavering commitment to quality patient care,” said Vickie Demers, chief executive officer of HealthSouth Lakeshore. “Patients have a choice and we welcome them to explore the specialized, state-of-the-art rehabilitation services that our hospital has to offer.”
The data used for this report was based on 12 months of 2015 data, drawn from both Medicare and non-Medicare patients. The results were weighted and combined into a single composite score, and each hospital was assigned a percentile rank from zero to 100 relative to the 782 qualifying subscribers in the UDSMR database.