AUDIOCONFERENCE
Sponsored by Hospital Auditing and Monitoring: Sample Programs for Key Risk Areas
presented on September 5, 2006
More and more, the creation and use of stroke centers is achieving prominence across the country. Whether your healthcare organization turns to the Brain Attack Coalition, the American Stroke Association, the JCAHO, or state-specific requirements—all stroke centers and potential stroke centers must surmount common obstacles.
Don't just meet the standards, exceed them!
Listsen to the audioconference, Assessing New Services: Developing and Implementing a Stroke Center, where we discuss the essential structure and elements for a stroke center, including significant obstacles and common mistakes, as well as how to circumvent these errors. Speakers pay special attention to buy-in by administration, medical staff, and other key figures, as well as the key components a stroke center must construct in order to provide the best, risk-averse care.
At the end of the audioconference, you will be able to:
- define the American Stroke Association’s 11 elements and learn how to prevent common mistakes
- identify the components of a successful stroke program
- gather resources needed to develop the necessary team
- develop initiation procedures for a stroke program at your facility
Take a look at our Agenda:
- Setting the scene: Initiating a stroke program
- Levels and requirements for certification
- American Stroke Associations's 11 elements - descriptions and common obstacles, mistakes
- Hospital and administrative support
- Defining your acute stroke team
- Written protocols
- Emergency medical systems
- Emergency departments
- Stroke Unit
- Neurosurgical services
- Neuroimaging
- Lab services
- Outcomes and quality improvement
- Educational programs
- Case scenarios from the field
- How to overcome the problem areas
- How to compose the necessary team
- Transfer agreements and referral centers
Question-and-answer session
FACULTY
Sonya Brooks-Shutes, M.D, Cerebrovascular Specialist, Skyline Medical Center.
Jackie Moreland, RN, Ortho/Neuro Nurse Specialist, Skyline Medical Center.
Who should listen?
Medical staff leadership, medical staff office professionals, members of the MEC, VPMAs, CEOs, COOs, CNOs, surgical team summit attendees, chiefs of surgery, and risk management professionals
Purchase a tape or CD of the program and listen when you can. It's a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
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