Mount Sinai Queens Recognized for Excellence In Stroke Care by the American Heart Association
For reducing the time it takes for a newly arrived stroke patient to be treated with clot-busting drugs, Mount Sinai Queens was named to the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association’s Honor Roll Elite and received the “Get With The Guidelines” Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes Mount Sinai Queens’s success in ensuring that stroke patients receive care in line with nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
“With a stroke, time lost is brain lost. We are pleased that the American Heart Association has spotlighted the efforts of our Stroke Center team to improve the quality of care for our patients,” said Caryn A. Schwab, Executive Director of Mount Sinai Queens.
According to the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association, stroke is the number five cause of death and a leading cause of adult 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 each year.
Mount Sinai Queens is the only hospital in the borough designated a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission and the New York State Department of Health. “At Mount Sinai Queens, we have a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to acute stroke care, comprising specialists from our Emergency Department, neurology, radiology, pharmacy, and our laboratory,” said Aaron P. Tansy, MD, an assistant professor of neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who has led the Stroke Team at Mount Sinai Queens for two years.
To receive the Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award, hospitals must achieve 85 percent or higher adherence to all Get With The Guidelines-Stroke achievement indicators for at least 12 consecutive months and during the same period achieve 75 percent or higher compliance with five of eight Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Quality measures. To qualify for the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite, hospitals must meet quality measures developed to reduce the time between the patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-buster tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke.
These quality measures are designed to help hospital teams provide the most up-to-date, evidence-based guidelines with the goal of reducing death and disability for stroke patients.
Visit here for full details on “Get With The Guidelines.”
About Mount Sinai Queens
Mount Sinai Queens is a 235-bed licensed acute care facility, providing adult medical and surgical services, with a team of nearly 500 physicians representing close to 40 medical and surgical specialties and sub-specialties. Between the physicians and staff, 35 languages are spoken; just one of the many ways that Mount Sinai Queens serves the needs of the culturally diverse population of our community.
In addition to providing inpatient care, Mount Sinai Queens serves the communities of Western Queens and beyond by providing primary and specialty care; occupational, speech and physical therapy; outpatient surgery; cancer care and a range of radiological testing.
Our new $150 million, six-story Ambulatory Care and Surgical Services Pavilion will provide for an integrated, medical office practice with virtually all medical and surgical specialties, along with dedicated outpatient imaging, in one convenient location. It will also provide a new, expanded Emergency Department -- more than quadruple the size of our current ED. Rounding out the new facility are seven new state-of-the-art operating rooms for a total of ten OR suites, that will enable both advanced inpatient and outpatient procedures.
For more information, visit http://www.mshq.org/.
About Get With The Guidelines®
Get With The Guidelines® is the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s hospital-based quality improvement program that provides hospitals with the latest research-based guidelines. Developed with the goal of saving lives and hastening recovery, Get With The Guidelines has touched the lives of more than 5 million patients since 2001. For more information, visit heart.org/quality or heart.org/QualityMap
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.
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