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St. Mary’s Medical Center Delray Medical Center Receives Healthgrades

Honors West Palm Beach Fire Rescue 8 2018 Patient Safety Excellence Award
for Call of the Quarter Delray Medical Center is a recipient of the Healthgrades 2018 Patient Safety

Excellence Award™, a designation recognizing superior performance of hospitals that
have prevented the occurrence of serious, potentially avoidable complications for
patients during hospital stays. The distinction places Delray Medical Center among the
top 10 percent of all short-term acute care hospitals reporting patient safety data for its
excellent performance as evaluated by Healthgrades.

Jupiter Medical Center Receives

National Award for Stroke Rehabilitation

Jupiter Medical Center announced that it has once again received the American Heart
Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus
Quality Achievement Award.
Jupiter Medical Center’s Stroke Rehabilitation program focuses on helping patients
relearn skills lost due to stroke in order to achieve the highest level of independence and
improve their quality of life. The team employs a multidisciplinary approach, combin-
St. Mary’s Medical Center recently awarded their Call of the Quarter to West Palm ing the advice and expertise of multiple physicians simultaneously, to individualize
Beach Fire Rescue 8 for their quick thinking during a recent call. An elderly man had treatment based on the unique needs of each patient.
fallen in his garage, hitting his head on his car. After arriving to his home and doing “This recognition acknowledges our ongoing commitment to delivering the highest
their initial assessment, first responders noticed he was developing a facial droop: a quality care for our community,” said Don McKenna, president and chief executive offi-
telltale sign of a stroke. Rather than call him as a traditional trauma alert, he was cer of Jupiter Medical Center. “Additionally, it validates our plans to establish a new
instead coded as a stroke alert and transported to the Comprehensive Stroke Center comprehensive stroke center, which will give us the ability to provide advanced treat-
at St. Mary’s. Thanks to this quick-thinking, Dr. Ali Malek, medical director of the ment for strokes and other complex neurological challenges.”
stroke center, and the stroke team were able to administer timely care that helped
save the patient’s life.
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Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center
Receives Get With The Guidelines-Stroke

Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award

Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center earns the American Heart Association/American
Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement
Award for the second straight year. Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center earned the
award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment
of stroke patients at a set level for a designated period. These measures include evaluation
of the proper use of medications and other stroke treatments aligned with the most up-
to-date, evidence-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death
and disability for stroke patients. Before discharge, patients should also receive education
on managing their health, get a follow-up visit scheduled, as well as other care transition
interventions.

West Boca Medical Center Receives
Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold

Plus Quality Achievement Award

West Boca Medical Center earns the American Heart Association’s Get With The
Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes
the hospital’s commitment to ensuring heart failure patients receive the most appropriate
treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines founded in the
latest scientific evidence. The goal is speeding recovery and reducing hospital readmis-
sions for heart failure patients.

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