LIJ Forest Hills nationally recognized for stroke care
BY JENNA BAGCAL
The American Heart
Association recently
recognized a Forest Hills
hospital for its exceptional
care of stroke patients.
Long Island Jewish
(LIJ) Forests Hills received
the Stroke Honor Roll
Elite Gold Plus Quality
Achievement Award from
the organization’s Get With
the Guidelines program.
The award recognizes LIJ
Forest Hills’ commitment
to giving stroke patients the
most appropriate treatment
according to nationally
recognized, research-based
guidelines and based on the
latest scientific evidence.
The American Heart
Association and American
Stroke Association list strokes
as the fifth cause of death and
one of the leading causes of
adult disability in the country.
According to their statistics,
someone in the United States
has a stroke every 40 seconds
and nearly 800,000 have a
new or recurrent stroke
every year.
“We are dedicated to
improving the quality of care
for our stroke patients by
implementing the American
Heart Association’s Get
With The Guidelines stroke
initiative,” said Rohan Arora,
MD, the hospital’s director
of stroke. “The tools and
resources provided help us
track and measure our success
in meeting evidence-based
clinical guidelines developed
to improve patient outcomes.”
The hospital met specific
quality achievement measures
including the proper use of
medications and other stroke
treatments aligned with the
most up-to-date, evidencebased
guidelines. The ultimate
goal of these treatments is
to speed up recovery and
reduce death and disability for
stroke patients.
Before a patient is
discharged from the hospital,
they receive education
on how to manage their
health, schedule a followup
visit and other care
transition interventions.
“We are pleased to
recognize LIJ Forest Hills for
their commitment to stroke
care,” said Lee H. Schwamm,
From left: Neeraj Singh, MD, neurologist; Madalyn Frank-Cooper, RN, MS, CNL, quality coordinator,
quality management department; Rohan Arora, MD, director of LIJ Forest Hills stroke program; Susan
Browning, hospital executive director; Teresa Murray Amato, MD, chair of emergency medicine and
Francine Kelly, DNP, MS, RN, senior administrative director II patient care services for the emergency
department, display the hospital’s stroke care award. Photo courtesy of LIJ Forest Hills
M.D., national chairperson
of the quality oversight
committee and executive vice
chair of neurology, director
of acute stroke services at
the Massachusetts General
Hospital. “Research has
shown that hospitals adhering
to clinical measures through
the Get With The Guidelines
quality improvement
initiative can often see fewer
readmissions and lower
mortality rates.” LIJ Forest
Hills also received the AHA’s
Target: StrokeSM Honor
Roll Elite award. Hospitals
who receive this recognition
must meet quality measures
created to reduce the time
between patient arrival and
treatment with the clot-buster
tissue plasminogen activator,
or tPA. This drug is the only
one approved by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration to
treat ischemic stroke.
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