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Eleven North Shore-LIJ Hospitals
Recognized for Superior Stroke Care
The American Heart Association/
American Stroke Association’s Get With The
Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement
Award has been awarded to 11 North Shore-
LIJ Health System hospitals, recognizing
the facilities’ successes in implementing
excellent care for stroke patients, according
to evidence-based guidelines.
To receive the Get With The
Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus or Gold
Quality Achievement Award, each hospital
achieved 24 consecutive months of 85
percent or higher adherence to all stroke
performance achievement indicators. These
measures include aggressive use of medications,
such as tissue plasminogen activator
(or tPA, a clot-busting drug); interventions
to prevent blood clots; administration of
cholesterol-reducing drugs; and review of
smoking cessation techniques with patients.
All the protocols are designed to reduce
mortality and disability rates, and improve
the lives of stroke patients. Gold Plus
indicates hospitals that have met the Gold
requirements AND have shown adherence
to several additional quality measures.
North Shore-LIJ hospitals received
the following awards:
Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award
Forest Hills Hospital
Franklin Hospital
Glen Cove Hospital
Huntington Hospital
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
North Shore University Hospital
Plainview Hospital
Southside Hospital
Staten Island University Hospital
Syosset Hospital
Gold Achievement Award
Lenox Hill Hospital
In addition, Forest Hills Hospital and
Lenox Hill Hospital achieved Target: Stroke
honor roll status, an additional campaign
to improve outcomes for ischemic stroke
patients, indicating the achievement of
door-to-needle (DTN) times of 60 minutes
or less in at least 50 percent of stroke cases
for at least one year. Shorter DTN times
have been proven to improve outcomes and,
through Target: Stroke, hospital teams can
work toward eliminating delays and reducing
long-term disability in stroke patients.
“With a stroke, time lost is brain
lost,” said Richard Libman, MD, chair of
North Shore-LIJ’s stroke task force and chief
of vascular neurology at LIJ Medical Center.
“The Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke
Quality Achievement Awards demonstrate
that our highly trained physicians and
nurses are committed to providing care that
has been clinically proven to quickly and
efficiently treat stroke patients and save lives.”
As New York State-designated stroke centers,
all 11 hospitals have multidisciplinary stroke
teams available 24 hours a day to assess and
treat stroke patients.
North Shore-LIJ
Goes to Harvard
Twenty-four staff from throughout
the North Shore-LIJ Health System,
pictured at left, participated in
the Harvard Project Management
Program, a specialized training
program designed for healthcare
professionals in both clinical and
operational roles that focuses
on improving cost, quality and
delivery through management
of both people and processes.
Participants attended the five
2-day modules over 10 months.
The program enables participants
to develop management skills to
deliver projects on time, within
budget and to specification.
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