{"id":31562,"date":"2014-11-05T03:42:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T07:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=31562"},"modified":"2020-10-21T14:31:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T18:31:51","slug":"utmc-achieves-highest-honor-for-stroke-patient-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_05_2014\/utmc-achieves-highest-honor-for-stroke-patient-care","title":{"rendered":"UTMC achieves highest honor for stroke patient care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo Medical Center recently received the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Award from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Stroke-award-GoldPlus_4C.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Stroke-award-GoldPlus_4C.jpg\" alt=\"PlusIcons2013_TS_edit\" width=\"209\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31749\" \/><\/a>The Gold Plus Award provides evidence of commitment to quality patient care. The award is given for achieving at least 85 percent adherence to all Get With the Guidelines-Stroke performance achievement indicators and at least 75 percent compliance with a minimum of five Get With the Guidelines-Stroke quality measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Gold Plus Award is a testament to UTMC\u2019s dedication to the guideline-based treatment of stroke patients. As a recipient of the highest award that the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association bestows upon a hospital, UTMC is part of an elite list,\u201d said Abigail Loechler, director of quality and systems improvement for the associations. \u201cThis award is not only a celebration for the hospital, but for the patients who are receiving such excellent care, resulting in a higher quality of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silver, Gold, Silver Plus and Gold Plus award-winning hospitals are honored at national events during the International Stroke Conference. UTMC is the only hospital in northwest Ohio to have achieved the Gold Plus level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UT Medical Center is the only hospital in northwest Ohio to receive the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Award from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,63],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61701,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562\/revisions\/61701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}