UM Shore Regional Health recently was notified that UM Shore Medical Center at Easton’s Primary Stroke Center received the 2024 Get With The Guidelines®- Stroke Gold Plus with Target: Stroke Award and Rural Stroke Award, which are quality achievement awards presented by the American Heart Association (AHA)/American Stroke Association (ASA). UM SRH’s Primary Stroke Center also is included in the AHA/ASA’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll.
This is the ninth consecutive year that UM SRH’s Primary Stroke Center has received the Stroke Gold Plus award. This is the first year that the AHA/ASA has awarded the Rural Stroke Award to hospitals.
“These awards speak volumes for our UM Shore Regional Health and community emergency medical services teams. They are a significant achievement for any medical institution and show that UM Shore Regional Health and our EMS provides state-of-the-art, patient-centered stroke care for our communities,” said Rena Sukhdeo Singh, MD, Medical Director of the Primary Stroke Center. “We are honored to be recognized by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for our dedication to helping patients have the best possible chance of survival and recovery following a stroke. Our dedicated team members and our community emergency response teams throughout the region deserve recognition for these awards, including our Emergency Medical Service providers, our Emergency Department teams, our Stroke Coordinator Nicole Leonard, our entire Brain Attack Team, team members on neurology/telemetry unit, and our radiology, pharmacy and laboratory teams. It is a coordinated effort that requires a collaborative approach and offers our communities the most advanced stroke care for our region.”
To honor team members and departments who play a key role in working with the Primary Stroke Center, SRH Senior Leaders and other SRH stroke care leaders delivered the good news and ice cream to several hospital departments, including the Intensive Care Unit, Radiology, Laboratory, Pharmacy, and the Telemetry and Emergency departments.
Stroke is the second leading cause of death in the U.S., following coronary heart disease. Stroke claimed the lives of 162,890 Americans in 2021 — one in every 21 deaths in the U.S. SRH provides stroke care to approximately 600 patients every year.
Additional information about the Primary Stroke Center at UM Shore Medical Center at Easton can be found at UMShoreRegional.org/stroke .