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JACKSON HOSPITAL
is a recipient of the American
Heart Association and Ameri-
can Stroke Association’s Get
With The Guidelines–Stroke
Gold Plus Quality Achieve-
ment Award.
The award recognizes Jack-
son Hospital’s commitment
and success in implementing
a higher standard of stroke
care according to nationally
accepted standards and
recommendations.*
The August 2011 issue of
U.S.News & World Report
,
“America’s Best Hospitals,”
included Jackson Hospi-
tal among the outstanding
healthcare organizations
that received achievement
awards in heart attack,
stroke and/or heart failure
treatment.
Receiving the Gold Plus
award for the Acute Stroke
GOLD!
Striking
For more information
and to see the U.S.News &
World Report advertisement, visit
and click on
the “Recognized Hospitals” link in the left-hand column.
Treatment Program, along
with our Chest Pain Center
accreditation, demonstrates
Jackson Hospital’s commit-
ment to the highest levels
of heart attack and stroke
care. These include aggres-
sive use of medications such
as TPA and antithrombotics,
anticoagulation therapy,
deep vein thrombosis
prophylaxis, cholesterol-
reducing drugs, and smoking
cessation assistance.
According to the American
Heart Association and Ameri-
can Stroke Association, stroke
is one of the leading causes of
death and serious long-term
disability in the United States.
On average, someone suffers a
stroke every 40 seconds, some-
one dies of a stroke every four
minutes, and 795,000 people
suffer a new or recurrent
stroke each year.
About Get With
The Guidelines
Get With The Guidelines is
the American Heart Associa-
tion and American Stroke
Association’s hospital-
based quality improvement
program that empowers
healthcare teams to save
lives and reduce healthcare
costs by helping hospitals
follow evidence-based guide-
lines and recommendations.
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