BRMC Receives Gold Performance Award for Stroke Care

Bluffton Regional Medical Center has been presented with the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Performance Achievement Award. The award recognizes hospitals successful in implementing nationally accepted standards and recommendations for stroke care for 24 consecutive months. Bluffton Regional is 1 of only 2 hospitals in the state of Indiana to receive this award.

To receive the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Performance Achievement Award, Bluffton Regional demonstrated 85% or better adherence in key measures for 24 or more consecutive months.

Bluffton Regional is one of only 13 hospitals in Indiana to be accredited as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission.

The number of acute ischemic stroke patients eligible for treatment is expected to grow over the next decade or more as a result of increased stroke incidence and the aging of the American population. According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of serious, long-term disability. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 45 seconds; someone dies from a stroke every 3 minutes; and 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.

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