Top: Good Samaritan Hospital, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today) Bottom: St. Francis Hospital, (Courtesy)
KEARNEY, GRAND ISLAND — CHI Health Good Samaritan and CHI Health St. Francis, the region’s designated Primary Stroke Centers, have been awarded the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll.
The honor recognizes both hospitals’ sustained commitment to delivering effective stroke treatment, including a high designation for rapidly restoring blood-flow to minimize damage and improve recovery. Fewer than 30% of U.S. patients with acute ischemic stroke are treated within the ideal 60-minute door-to-thrombolytic therapy window.
Good Samaritan also received the Get With The Guidelines® Rural Stroke Gold award, the highest designation. This award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to addressing health disparities in rural areas by adhering to evidence-based standards, including prompt arrival-to-treatment times. As an urban hospital, St. Francis was not eligible.
According to the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, stroke is the No. 5 cause of death and a leading cause of adult disability in the United States. On average, someone in the U.S. suffers a stroke every 40 seconds and nearly 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.
