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The award recognizes St. John’s Riverside Hospital’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment per nationally accepted guidelines, a press release from the hospital said.
“St. John’s Riverside Hospital is dedicated to making our care for stroke patients among the best in the country. The American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines–Stroke program helps us to accomplish this goal,” Dr. Manjeet Dhallu, Stroke Center Medical Director at St. John’s Riverside Hospital, said in a statement. “As the number of stroke patients is expected to grow over the next decade we will continue to strive to provide the community with high quality care.”
The program helps the hospital’s staff develop and implement acute and secondary prevention processes to improve patient care and outcomes, the release said. “The program provides hospitals with a web-based patient management tool, best practice discharge protocols and standing orders, along with a robust registry and real-time benchmarking capabilities to track performance.”
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