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(Tahoe/Truckee, Calif.) – Tahoe Forest Hospital is proud to announce that it has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Rural Recognition Silver Award for its efforts to optimize stroke care and eliminate rural health care outcome disparities.
Because speed in receiving care is critical to preventing stroke mortality and minimizing long-term disability, people who live in rural communities face a 30% increased risk for stroke mortality — a gap that has grown over the past two decades. Tahoe Forest is committed to changing that.
The American Heart Association, the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health, recognizes the important role rural hospitals play in initiating timely stroke care. The award recognizes hospitals for demonstrating acute stroke care excellence as measured by composite scores for intravenous thrombolytic therapy, timely hospital inter-facility transfer, dysphagia screening, symptom timeline and deficit assessment documentation, emergency medical services communication, brain imaging, and stroke expert consultation.
“We’re honored to be recognized for the vital work we do every day to give patients affected by stroke the best opportunity for recovery and survival,” said Tahoe Forest Health System Interim CEO, Louis Ward. “At Tahoe Forest, we’re dedicated to minimizing the obstacles that compromise the level of care often faced by rural stroke patients. I’m incredibly proud of our team for their dedication to excellence in this field and for this well-deserved achievement.”
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About Tahoe Forest Health System
Tahoe Forest Health System, which includes Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee, CA, and Incline Village Community Hospital in Incline Village, NV, offers 24-hour emergency care, urgent care, primary and specialty health care clinics, including Tahoe Forest Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Commission on Cancer (COC) accredited cancer center, the Gene Upshaw Memorial Tahoe Forest Cancer Center, and the Joseph Family Center for Women and Newborn Care. With a strong focus on high-quality patient care, community collaboration, clinical excellence, and innovation, Tahoe Forest Health System is a UC Davis Rural Center of Excellence. For a complete list of physician specialties and services, visit www.tfhd.com.
(Tahoe/Truckee, Calif.) – Tahoe Forest Hospital is proud to announce that it has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Rural Recognition Silver Award for its efforts to optimize stroke care and eliminate rural health care outcome disparities.
Because speed in receiving care is critical to preventing stroke mortality and minimizing long-term disability, people who live in rural communities face a 30% increased risk for stroke mortality — a gap that has grown over the past two decades. Tahoe Forest is committed to changing that.
The American Heart Association, the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health, recognizes the important role rural hospitals play in initiating timely stroke care. The award recognizes hospitals for demonstrating acute stroke care excellence as measured by composite scores for intravenous thrombolytic therapy, timely hospital inter-facility transfer, dysphagia screening, symptom timeline and deficit assessment documentation, emergency medical services communication, brain imaging, and stroke expert consultation.
“We’re honored to be recognized for the vital work we do every day to give patients affected by stroke the best opportunity for recovery and survival,” said Tahoe Forest Health System Interim CEO, Louis Ward. “At Tahoe Forest, we’re dedicated to minimizing the obstacles that compromise the level of care often faced by rural stroke patients. I’m incredibly proud of our team for their dedication to excellence in this field and for this well-deserved achievement.”
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About Tahoe Forest Health System
Tahoe Forest Health System, which includes Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee, CA, and Incline Village Community Hospital in Incline Village, NV, offers 24-hour emergency care, urgent care, primary and specialty health care clinics, including Tahoe Forest Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Commission on Cancer (COC) accredited cancer center, the Gene Upshaw Memorial Tahoe Forest Cancer Center, and the Joseph Family Center for Women and Newborn Care. With a strong focus on high-quality patient care, community collaboration, clinical excellence, and innovation, Tahoe Forest Health System is a UC Davis Rural Center of Excellence. For a complete list of physician specialties and services, visit www.tfhd.com.
