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All Five Penn Medicine Hospitals Receive Stroke Quality Achievement AwardsRecognition from American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
Newswise — PHILADELPHIA — The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, and Lancaster General Hospital have received Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement Awards from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
The awards recognize all five Penn Medicine hospitals’ success in implementing nationally recognized, evidence-based guidelines for treating stroke patients.“These achievements are a result of our continuous focus on quality and performance improvement for our patients presenting with stroke,” said Scott E. Kasner, MD, director of Penn Medicine’s Comprehensive Stroke Center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. “We are very proud that all five Penn Medicine hospitals have been recognized for meeting the high Get With The Guidelines standards.”
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center received the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus award. Chester County Hospital and Lancaster General Hospital received the Silver Plus Quality Award.
Hospitals must show at least 85 percent compliance with all seven achievement indicators and 75 percent compliance with five of eight quality measures for two years to receive the Gold Plus award and one year to receive the Silver Plus award.
Achievement indicators include administering evidence based anti-stroke medications and providing smoking cessation counseling. Quality measures include meeting additional medication standards and providing stroke education services.
In addition to the Get With The Guideline-Stroke awards, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Hospital qualified for Stroke Honor Roll -- Elite Plus recognition while Penn Presbyterian Medical Center qualified for Stroke Honor Roll -- Elite recognition and Lancaster General and Chester County Hospital qualified for the Stroke Honor Roll. Criteria for the Honor Roll and its accompanying levels include additional adherence to evidence based medication regimens.
In fiscal year 2015, the five Penn Medicine hospitals together cared for close to 1,800 stroke patients.
According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is one of the leading causes of death and serious, long-term disability in the United States. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies of a stroke every four minutes; and 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke every year. And, while stroke is a leading cause of disability, it is also the leading preventable cause of disability.
# # #Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $5.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine has been ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States for the past 18 years, according to U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $373 million awarded in the 2015 fiscal year.The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center -- which are recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report -- Chester County Hospital; Lancaster General Health; Penn Wissahickon Hospice; and Pennsylvania Hospital -- the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional affiliated inpatient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region include Chestnut Hill Hospital and Good Shepherd Penn Partners, a partnership between Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network and Penn Medicine.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2015, Penn Medicine provided $253.3 million to benefit our community.
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