Baystate Wing Hospital Honored for Stroke Care

PALMER — Baystate Wing Hospital has received the Get with the Guidelines – Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality-improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Assoc./American Stroke Assoc. for the treatment of stroke patients, as well as the Defect-free Care Award from the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program at the Mass. Department of Public Health.

These awards recognize Baystate Wing Hospital’s commitment to and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations.

“We are extremely proud of these awards and attribute them to the collaborative efforts of our stroke team,” said Dr. Mohammed Ahmed, chief operating officer and chief medical officer of the Baystate Health Eastern Region, which includes Baystate Wing Hospital and Baystate Mary Lane Hospital. “This team works together to ensure that we provide exceptional care to all of our patients and includes our physicians and nurses in the Emergency Department, our colleagues in the Laboratory, Radiology, and Physical Therapy, as well our dietitian and nurses on the patient-care units and in Quality and Education. Each member of the team has contributed in significant ways to this result.”

Get with the Guidelines – Stroke helps Baystate Wing’s staff develop and implement acute and secondary prevention guideline processes to improve patient care and outcomes. The program provides hospitals with a web-based patient-management tool, best-practice discharge protocols and standing orders, along with a robust registry and real-time benchmarking capabilities to track performance.