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Beebe Medical Center Receives the Silver Performance Award for Stroke Care

03/01/10

Beebe Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get with the Guidelines® Silver Achievement Award.

This award represents Beebe Medical Center's commitment to offering quality healthcare to stroke patients and its participation in American Heart Association/American Stroke Association quality improvement programs.

Our goal at Beebe Medical Center is to continuously improve the healthcare that we offer to the communities we serve, says Jeffrey M. Fried, President and CEO of Beebe Medical Center. I want to congratulate our team members for earning this award. They are committed to making sure that the care we give our stroke patients is of the highest quality.

The award recognizes that Beebe Medical Center has demonstrated 85% or higher compliance over the past 12 months in each of the seven Get with the Guidelines performance measures in stroke care. Get with the Guidelines is an evidence-based program for in-hospital quality improvement in which the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association work with the hospital to optimize care for patients with coronary heart disease, heart failure and stroke. The stroke care measures include the use of prescribed medications to reduce disability and improve the life of a stroke patient.


Beebe Medical Center is a not-for-profit community medical center with a charitable mission to encourage healthy living, prevent illness, and restore optimal health with the people residing, working, or visiting in the communities we serve. For more information, please visit us online at www.beebemed.org