NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., May 26, 2017 --- Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian received the American Heart Association/American
Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: StrokeSM Honor Roll Elite.
This is the seventh year Hoag has received the Gold Plus Quality Achievement
Award and the first year for the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite acknowledging
Hoag for its commitment to providing the highest standard of stroke care
according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on
the latest scientific evidence.
"Hoag is honored to receive this distinction, as it demonstrates our
commitment to delivering advanced stroke treatments to patients quickly
and safely,” said
Michael Brant-Zawadzki, M.D., F.A.C.R., Senior Physician Executive and
Ron & Sandi Simon Executive Medical Director Endowed Chair, Hoag Neurosciences Institute. “Hoag
Stroke Program’s
multidisciplinary team utilizes state-of-the-art technology and proven specialized neurological
techniques to provide and document the best outcomes for our patients.”
Hospitals must achieve 85 percent or higher adherence to all Get With The
Guidelines-Stroke achievement indicators for two or more consecutive 12-month
periods and achieve 75 percent or higher compliance with five of eight
Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Quality measures to receive the Gold Plus
Quality Achievement Award.
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. If given intravenously in the first three hours
after the start of stroke symptoms, tPA has been shown to significantly
reduce the effects of stroke and lessen the chance of permanent disability.
Hoag is also the first hospital in Orange County to be certified as a
Comprehensive Stroke Center by DNV GL Healthcare USA, Inc., reflecting the highest level of competence for treatment of the most
serious stroke events.
ABOUT HOAG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PRESBYTERIAN
Hoag is an approximately $1 billion nonprofit, regional health care delivery
network in Orange County, California, that treats more than 29,000 inpatients
and 305,000 outpatients annually. Hoag consists of two acute-care hospitals
– Hoag Hospital Newport Beach, which opened in 1952, and Hoag Hospital
Irvine, which opened in 2010 – in addition to seven health centers
and ten urgent care centers. Hoag is a designated Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Hoag offers
a comprehensive blend of health care services that includes five institutes
providing specialized services in the following areas:
cancer,
heart and vascular,
neurosciences,
women’s health, and orthopedics through Hoag’s affiliate,
Hoag Orthopedic Institute, which consists of an orthopedic hospital and two ambulatory surgical centers.
In 2013, Hoag entered into an alliance with St. Joseph Health to further
expand health care services in the Orange County community, known as St.
Joseph Hoag Health. Hoag has been named one of the Best Regional Hospitals
in the 2016 - 2017
U.S. News & World Report, andBecker’s Hospital Review named Hoag as one of the 2016 “100 Great Hospitals in America”
– a designation Hoag has received four times. National Research
Corporation has endorsed Hoag as Orange County’s most preferred
hospital for the past 20 consecutive years and, for an unprecedented 21
years, residents of Orange County have chosen Hoag as one of the county’s
best hospitals in a local newspaper survey. Visit
www.hoag.org for more information.
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