INTEGRIS Health Baptist Medical Center and INTEGRIS Health Southwest Medical Center both received special recognition from the American Heart Association (AHA) for providing exceptional stroke care to patients.
INTEGRIS Health Baptist Medical Center and INTEGRIS Health Southwest Medical Center both received special recognition from the American Heart Association (AHA) for providing exceptional stroke care to patients. The facilities were honored with the AHA’s 2024 Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Award.
The Gold Plus Quality Award is the AHA’s most advanced level of recognition and is given to hospitals that show positive patient outcomes across a number of metrics for stroke care over 24 consecutive months or more. The exact criteria can be found here.
Fast facts about stroke:
“Every second matters following a stroke, and that’s where INTEGRIS Health’s stroke care really shines,” says Robie Harrington, Pharm.D., a clinical pharmacy specialist in the emergency department at INTEGRIS Health Southwest Medical Center.
When it comes to stroke, rapid response and treatment is vitally important to patient outcomes.
“In just a matter of minutes following a stroke, millions of brain cells die,” Harrington says. “Our various treatment options are effective at breaking up blood clots in the brain, but the fact that some doses can be administered over 5-10 seconds means that a patient receives possibly disability-preventing and even potentially lifesaving medicine much faster following a stroke.”
If you or a loved one experience symptoms of a stroke, call 9-1-1 and seek emergency care immediately. Time lost is brain lost, and every minute counts.
