Temple University Hospital (TUH) – Main Campus, Temple Health – Chestnut Hill Hospital, and TUH – Jeanes Campus have earned national recognition from the American Heart Association for their commitment to providing high-quality stroke care.
TUH – Main Campus earned Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus with Target: Stroke℠ Honor Roll Elite Plus and Target: Type 2 Diabetes™ Honor Roll awards.
Temple Health – Chestnut Hill Hospital earned Get With The Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll awards.
TUH – Jeanes Campus earned Get With The Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus with Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll awards.
The Get With The Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award recognizes the commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines, ultimately leading to more lives saved and reduced disability.
To qualify for the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus and Target: Stroke Honor Roll awards, hospitals must meet specific criteria that reduce the time between an eligible patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with thrombolytic therapy.
The Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll award aims to ensure patients with Type 2 diabetes, who might be at higher risk for complications, receive the most up-to-date, evidence-based care when hospitalized due to stroke.
“Temple Health is committed to providing safe, high-quality care to our patients using the latest research- and evidence-based treatment guidelines, and this recognition is further proof of the success of those efforts,” said Abhi Rastogi, MBA, MIS, Executive Vice President of Temple Health and President and CEO of Temple University Hospital Inc. “The end goal is to ensure more people can experience longer, healthier lives.”
Stroke is the No. 5 cause of death and a leading cause of disability in the U.S. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked by a clot or bursts. When that happens, part of the brain cannot ger the blood and oxygen it needs, so brain cells die. Early stroke detection and treatment are key to improving survival, minimizing disability and accelerating recovery times.