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- Norton And Uk Healthcare Formalize The Collaboration They Announced Almost A Year And A Half Ago
UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare have formalized the collaboration they announced almost a year and a half ago and will "focus on creating collaborations with hospitals across the state in stroke, cardiovascular and cancer care," Dr. Michael Karpf,...
- Read About Stroke. Hear About Stroke. Know About Stroke
by Linda Pazdalski, B.S.N., R.N. Stroke Program Coordinator, Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute You read it in any number of publications, hear it on any number of radio programs, and see it on any number of TV commercials almost daily?..Stroke...
- Northwest Hospital Designated Primary Stroke Center
For some residents in Baltimore City and Baltimore, Carroll and Howard counties, lifesaving emergency stroke care just got closer to home. That is because the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) has just designated Northwest...
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Accreditation commission designates UK as one of 63 comprehensive stroke centers
The Joint Commission for accredting health-care organizations, the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association have designated UK HealthCare a Comprehensive Stroke Center. The university's medical center joins 63 other institutions with the designation.
The certification is bestowed upon hospitals with not only state-of-the-art infrastructures and 24/7 availability of special treatment but also dedicated staff with the education and experience to help patients who suffered from complex strokes. "We are justifiably proud of the many people at UK HealthCare whose expertise and commitment to quality of care earned us this designation," said Dr. Michael Karpf, UK's executive vice president for health.
Traci Beasley, a 35-year-old elementary math teacher and mother of two, had a stroke in 2012 and was airlifted to UK, where she received the kind of care and treatment that earned the institution the designation. "Mrs. Beasley's condition required immediate intervention, and the particulars of her case led us to use an older but less commonly employed approach to prevent aneurysm from re-rupturing," said Dr. Justin Fraser, who led the team that treated Beasley.
A UK press release says, "In the hospital's state-of-the-art hybrid OR, the only one of its kind in the region, he used a microscope to deploy a tiny metal clip that sealed off the aneurysm." While caregivers watched for any subsequent problems, Beasley went to the angiography suite to correct her cerebral vasospasm, a condition that restricts blood supply to brain tissue as a result of narrowing arteries. Soon after, she returned home.
Fraser said the stroke center designation is a result of teamwork and collaboration: "Weakness in an arm or speech problems . . . are obvious neurological deficits caused by a stroke, but our goal is to achieve a more elegant solution. Can the patient balance their checkbook? Can they follow a list at the grocery store? Can they return to work and a normal life? That's why we're here."
The certification is bestowed upon hospitals with not only state-of-the-art infrastructures and 24/7 availability of special treatment but also dedicated staff with the education and experience to help patients who suffered from complex strokes. "We are justifiably proud of the many people at UK HealthCare whose expertise and commitment to quality of care earned us this designation," said Dr. Michael Karpf, UK's executive vice president for health.
Traci Beasley, a 35-year-old elementary math teacher and mother of two, had a stroke in 2012 and was airlifted to UK, where she received the kind of care and treatment that earned the institution the designation. "Mrs. Beasley's condition required immediate intervention, and the particulars of her case led us to use an older but less commonly employed approach to prevent aneurysm from re-rupturing," said Dr. Justin Fraser, who led the team that treated Beasley.
A UK press release says, "In the hospital's state-of-the-art hybrid OR, the only one of its kind in the region, he used a microscope to deploy a tiny metal clip that sealed off the aneurysm." While caregivers watched for any subsequent problems, Beasley went to the angiography suite to correct her cerebral vasospasm, a condition that restricts blood supply to brain tissue as a result of narrowing arteries. Soon after, she returned home.
Fraser said the stroke center designation is a result of teamwork and collaboration: "Weakness in an arm or speech problems . . . are obvious neurological deficits caused by a stroke, but our goal is to achieve a more elegant solution. Can the patient balance their checkbook? Can they follow a list at the grocery store? Can they return to work and a normal life? That's why we're here."
- Study Shows That Removing A Clot That Causes A Stroke Leaves Victims With Higher Functional Independence
In Kentucky, strokes cause about 5 percent of deaths, and the state had the 11th highest stroke mortality rate in 2009, according to data from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Fewer than 40 percent of severe stroke victims regain functional...
- Uk's Gill Heart Institute Joins Appalachian Regional Healthcare To Advance Specialty Heart Care In Eastern Kentucky
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, the Appalachian Heart Center and UK HealthCare?s Gill Heart Institute announced a new collaboration to deliver cardiovascular care to Eastern Kentuckians, which will extend the UK's sub-specialty care footprint...
- Norton And Uk Healthcare Formalize The Collaboration They Announced Almost A Year And A Half Ago
UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare have formalized the collaboration they announced almost a year and a half ago and will "focus on creating collaborations with hospitals across the state in stroke, cardiovascular and cancer care," Dr. Michael Karpf,...
- Read About Stroke. Hear About Stroke. Know About Stroke
by Linda Pazdalski, B.S.N., R.N. Stroke Program Coordinator, Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute You read it in any number of publications, hear it on any number of radio programs, and see it on any number of TV commercials almost daily?..Stroke...
- Northwest Hospital Designated Primary Stroke Center
For some residents in Baltimore City and Baltimore, Carroll and Howard counties, lifesaving emergency stroke care just got closer to home. That is because the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) has just designated Northwest...