Hot Springs Receives Stroke Silver Quality Achievement Award

CHI St Vincent Hot Springs has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines^®-Stroke Silver Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment and success in ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines.

To receive the Silver Quality Achievement award, hospitals must achieve 85% or higher adherence to all Get With The Guidelines-Stroke achievement indicators for one calendar year.  CHI St Vincent Hot Springs continued to build on their success this past year after receiving the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines^®-Stroke Bronze Quality Achievement Award in 2015.

These quality measures are designed to help hospital teams provide the most up-to-date, evidence-based care to speed recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients.

They focus on appropriate use of medications such as clot-busting and anti-clotting drugs, blood thinners and cholesterol-reducing drugs, preventive action for deep vein thrombosis and smoking cessation counseling.

Shawna Corley, Quality Director, and Charity Hixon, Clinical Outcomes Coordinator, recently attended an awards ceremony held by The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association and the Arkansas Department of Health on May 25^th.  They not only received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines^®-Stroke Silver Quality Achievement Award, but also received a Certificate of Recognition from the Arkansas Department Health for excellent performance in documentation of EMS Pre-Notification for potential stroke patients.