Awards and Recognition
Carteret General Honored to Be Accepted Into Stroke Registry
Carteret General Hospital has joined with other hospitals to improve stroke outcomes in North Carolina. The North Carolina Collaborative Stroke Registry has invited Carteret General to participate in the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry.
Stoke is the 3rd leading cause of death in North Carolina. In July 2004, North Carolina successfully competed for new funding from the CDC to implement one of four Paul Coverdell Acute Stroke Registries in the United States.
As one of the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registries, the North Carolina Collaborative Stroke Registry is a part of a national effort to reduce the incidence of death and disability caused by stroke. The North Carolina Collaborative Stroke Registry assesses the use of best practice guidelines for stroke treatment by conducting real-time data collection on stroke treatment within North Carolina hospitals. Using these data, hospitals are able to measure and improve the quality of patient care. The goals of the North Carolina Collaborative Stroke Registry are to provide insight into the feasibility of a state wide registry, evaluate the current state of stroke care in North Carolina and assist hospitals toward enhancing the quality of stroke care.
In 2002, strokes caused 5,236 deaths statewide, 7% of all deaths in that year. NC’s stroke death rate is well above the national rate. NC’s 2001 age-adjusted stroke mortality rate of 71.3 per 100,000 was 23% higher than the national rate of 57.9 per 100,000. NC is part of the Stroke Belt, an 8 to 12 state region in the southeast that historically has had substantially higher stroke death than the rest of the nation. Furthermore, the eastern counties of NC are part of the Buckle of the Stroke Belt, a region with consistently the highest stroke death rates in the nation for at least the past 30 years. For residents of the Stroke Buckle, stroke death rates among 35-54 year olds are more than twice that of the rest of the nation, and those for 55-74 year olds are 1.7 times greater than those of the rest of the nation. By participating in this registry, Carteret General hopes to establish the causes of the Stroke Buckle.
Carteret General will receive extensive and on-going training and technical assistance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the NC Department of Health and Human Services.
Our Hospital will also benefit with the following:
- Access to the technology and support to maintain a stroke data repository needed to meet JCAHO certification as a Primary Stroke Center
- Assistance in developing quality improvement measures for stroke care
- Real time access to data on the care of stroke patients at your hospital
- Comparisons of your hospital's data to the aggregate data from other participating hospitals
- Publication opportunities
For more information about the North Carolina Collaborative Stroke Registry, visit their website at www.ncstrokeregistry.org.