Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Gaithersburg, Md., and Washington Adventist Hospital (WAH) in Takoma Park, Md.– both part of the Adventist HealthCare system—received the Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association (AHA) for their expert, high quality stroke care.
This award, which is part of the AHA’s Get With the Guidelines stroke program, recognizes each hospital for achieving at least a 75 percent compliance rate on six stroke quality measures over 12 consecutive months while also achieving at least an 85 percent rate on all of the Get With the Guidelines stroke achievement measures.
Both Shady Grove Adventist and Washington Adventist Hospital have acute stroke units, integrated emergency response systems and multidisciplinary stroke teams including neurologists, surgeons, emergency department physicians, nurses and a stroke program coordinator. Members of the WAH stroke team are pictured with their award.—Story by Susan Griffiths
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