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Hialeah Hospital has received a five-star rating for stroke care by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings company. The stroke care findings were included in the eleventh annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study, which analyzed more than 41 million Medicare hospitalization records from 2005 to 2007 at the nation’s approximately 5,000 non-federal hospitals.
Also according to the study, patients treated at the nation’s top-rated hospitals have a 70 percent lower chance of dying compared with the lowest-rated hospitals across 17 common procedures and conditions, ranging from heart attack and pneumonia care to respiratory failure.
While overall death rates declined from 2005 to 2007, the nation’s best-performing hospitals were able to reduce preventable deaths at a much faster rate than poor-performing hospitals, resulting in large state, regional and hospital-to-hospital variations in the quality of patient care, the study found.
Warning Signs Of Stroke
If you or someone with you has one or more of these symptoms, call 911 immediately.
. Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body
. Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding
. Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
. Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
. Sudden, severe headache with no known cause.
About Strokes
Everyone should know stroke's risk factors, warning signs and know how to respond quickly if they occur.
A stroke is a brain attack. During stroke, blood flow to the brain is blocked by a clot or broken blood vessel. The brain cells do not get the oxygen they need and start to die. Getting immediate medical care for stroke is important in saving brain function and bodily function.
Each year about 700,000 people experience a new or recurrent stroke. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 45 seconds and someone dies of a stroke every 3.1 minutes. In the U.S., about 4.7 million stroke survivors are alive today.
There are two types of strokes. An ischemic stroke is caused when a blood clot blocks an artery or vessel in your brain. Eighty percent of strokes are ischemic. A hemorrhagic stroke occurs when a blood vessel in the brain breaks and bleeds in the brain.