JCAHO stroke center certification meets emerging standard
Accreditation Connection, April 25, 2005
A patient in her 50s experiences an acute stroke while recovering from surgery.
Because her physician is not a stroke specialist and the nurses present are not trained to care for an acute stroke patient, they are terrified. Should they give her a clot busting drug? No, she could bleed to death with that drug so soon after surgery. They quickly realize the situation is not something they can comfortably handle.
Then they remember who can handle it: the hospital's 24/7 stroke team. They call and mobilize the team, and within minutes stroke team members are on-site to evaluate and treat the patient.
"She went from total paralysis on the right side of her body, blind and not speaking, to needing only a brief stay on the rehabilitation unit and then being able to go home a few days after with only minor speech problems," says Tammy Cress RN, MSN, stroke program clinical supervisor and coordinator at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
Swedish is one of 93 JCAHO-certified primary stroke centers in the United States. Two of its campuses earned the designation in September 2004 after meeting the certification program's 10 core measures and demonstrating its stroke care for the accreditor during a September survey.
To learn more about stroke center certification, click here.
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